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 (21)：

2022 - 2029 International Strategic Research Alliance for Sustainable Socio-Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan and Asia
2024 - 2025 開発途上国における地域警察活動に関する探索的研究
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

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Papers (67)：

Christian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver T. Coomes. COVID-19 y medidas de protección adoptadas en comunidades rurales amazónicas durante los primeros meses de la pandemia. Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública. 2024
Yoshito Takasaki. Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia. Journal of Development Economics. 2024
David Poissant, Oliver T. Coomes, Brian E. Robinson, Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid. Livelihoods and poverty in small-scale fisheries in western Amazonia. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 2024
Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, Oliver T. Coomes. COVID-19 contagion across remote communities in tropical forests. Scientific Reports. 2022. 12. 1. 20727
Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid, Margaret Kalacska. Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022. 119. 40. e2116446119

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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 (4)：

コメ・ビジネス-出現する巨大マーケット
実業之日本社 2023 ISBN:440813161X
未来探究2050 東大30人の知性が読み解く世界
日本経済新聞出版 2021 ISBN:4532358787
Social network analysis of disaster response, recovery, and adaptation
Butterworth-Heinemann 2016 ISBN:0128051965
Deforestation Around the World
2012 ISBN:9535104179

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 Agricultural and applied Economics
1991 - 1993 Georgetown University School of Business
1986 - 1988 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Science Geography
1984 - 1986 University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences 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 (16)：

2020/10 - 現在 TTokyo Economic Consulting Inc. Advisor
2015/04 - 現在 University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics Professor
2019/11 - 2023/10 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

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Committee career (19)：

2023/04 - 現在松下幸之助記念志財団出版助成(松下正治記念学術賞)選考委員
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

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Awards (14)：

2019 - American Geographical Society 2018 Geographical Review Best Paper Award Rural social networks along Amazonian rivers: seeds, labor and soccer among communities on the Napo River, Peru
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

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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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