Publications

• "Time Horizon of Government and Public Goods Investment: Evidence from Japan" (Journal of Development Economics, vol. 146, 2020)

• "Barriers to Public Pension Program Participation in a Developing Country" (with Tomoaki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Sawada, Khaliun Dovchinsuren, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics vol 3, no. 2, 2025)

• "Railroads and Technology Adoption in Meiji Japan" [wp in SSRN] (Accepted for Explorations in Economic History) Moriguchi prize awarded paper. 

Working Papers​

• "From Samurai to Skyscraper: Lot Fragmentation and Urban Development" (with Kentaro Nakajima and Kensuke Teshima) [wp in the "home" page] 

Working in Progress

• “On the Schooling Effect of Mosquito Nets”(with Hidehiko Ichimura and Yasuyuki Sawada)

• "Geography of Business Interactions: Evidence from Business Card Exchange Data" (with Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Shota Komatsu, Juan Nelson Martínez Dahbura, Kentaro Nakajima, Takanori Nishida, Kensuke Teshima, and Kentaro Nakajima)

• "Political Centralization and City Growth" (with Masahiro Kubo and Ken Miura) 

• "Transforming Samurai into Bureaucrats" (with Yasuo Takatsuki and Katsuya Takii)