Yoshito Takasaki

タカサキヨシト | Yoshito Takasaki

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/site/takasakiweb/

Research field (4)： Economic policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Economic policy

Research keywords (25)： Development Economics , Applied Microeconometrics , Field experiment , Resource Economics , Poverty , Institution , Political economy , Geography , Spatial analysis , Community , Social network , Ethnicity , Conflict , Crime , Disability , Labor , Education , Health , Behavior , Risk , Natural disaster , Tropical forests , Shifting cultivation , Rural livelihoods , Conservation

Research theme for competitive and other funds (17)：

2019 - 2024 Field experiments on reproductive, maternal, and child health care in rural Africa
2018 - 2024 Interdisciplinary collaborative research on rainforest conservation and development
2018 - 2023 Integrating spatial data and development program evaluation
2018 - 2019 Exploratory study on spatial data and program evaluation
2014 - 2019 Innovations in conservation and development in Amazonian rainforest: endogenous community location and poverty traps

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Papers (58)：

Yoshito Takasaki. Impacts of applying for international labor migration before migration occurs. World Development. 2022. 157. 105965-105965
Mayuko Onuki, Keitaro Aoyagi, Yoshito Takasaki. Personal intergroup contact between different groups of ex-combatants and civilians: Evidence from a behavioural experiment in Rwanda. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2022. 52. 1. 1-17
Margaret Kalacska, J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora, Oliver T Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid. Multi-Temporal Surface Water Classification for Four Major Rivers from the Peruvian Amazon. Data. 2022
Christian Abizaid, Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki. Lifeways and currents of change in the Peruvian Amazon: A 1000 km boat journey down the Ucayali River. Focus on Geography. 2022. 65
Oliver T Coomes, Margaret Kalacska, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, Tristan Grupp. Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia. Environmental Research Letters. 2022

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MISC (3)：

Yasuyuki Sawada, Yoshito Takasaki. Natural Disaster, Poverty, and Development. WORLD DEVELOPMENT. 2017. 94. 1-1
Yoshito Takasaki. Randomized experiments on preventative health care among pregnant women and infants in Nigeria. PRIMCED Newsletter. 2013. 6
Yoshito Takasaki. Marine transport industry in the world : intensive international competition and global strategies of Japanese liner companies. LTCB Research. 1994. 24

Books (3)：

Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation
Elsevier 2016
Deforestation Around the World
InTech 2012
Rice Business: An Emerging Big Market
Jitsugyononihonsha 1991

Lectures and oral presentations (53)：

Disability and development in development economics
(Research on Economy, Disability and Diversity Open Seminar 2022)
Disability, vocational training, and psychological externalities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia
(Empirical Micro Research Seminar/Tokyo Workshop on International Development (TWID) 2019)
Vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia
(JADE Development Economics Workshop 2019)
Disability and poverty: evidence from landmine amputees in Cambodia
(Hitotsubashi Summer Institute 2016)
How effective is antenatal care in developing countries?: experimental evidence from rural Nigeria
(Tokyo Workshop on International Development, University of Tokyo 2016)

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Education (4)：

1994 - 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991 - 1993 Georgetown University
1986 - 1988 The University of Tokyo Geography
1984 - 1986 University of Tokyo Natural Sciences I

Professional career (4)：

Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
M.A., Agricultural Economics (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
M.B.A., Business Administration (Georgetown University)
B.S., Geography (University of Tokyo)

Work history (15)：

2015/04 - 現在 University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics Professor
2019/11 - 2021/04 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Evaluation Department Advisor
2019/03 - 2020/03 Metric Works Consultants Technical Advisor
2014/04 - 2017/03 Japan International Coorporation Agency Evaluation Department Advisor
2010/04 - 2016/03 Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Visiting Researcher

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Committee career (18)：

2021/11 - 現在 Japanese Association for Development Economics Director
2019 - 現在 Center for Research and Education in Program Evaluation Steering Committee
2018/04 - 現在 Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics Organizer
2017/04 - 現在 Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE) Faculty
2017 - 現在 Sophia University External Evaluation Member, Private University Research Branding

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Awards (13)：

2015/03 - University of Tsukuba Research Activity Honorarium
2014/03 - University of Tsukuba Research Activity Honorarium
2013/03 - University of Tsukuba Research Activity Honorarium
2001 - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation award The Microdynamics of Conservation and Development in Tropical Forests
2001 - American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation Honorable Mention The Microdynamics of Conservation and Development in Tropical Forests

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Association Membership(s) (5)：

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists , JAPANESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION , Agricultural and Applied Economics Association , American Economic Association , Japanese Association for Development Economics

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