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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 (68):
  • Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid. Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species. Ambio. 2024
  • 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
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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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