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Keisuke Kawata

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Economics
Research Fields Labor Economics, Development Economics
E-mail keisukekawataiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Homepage https://tetokawata.github.io/index.html

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 2017 - Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Topics of Research

1Empirical analysis of policy effects and social structural changes using large-scale data
2Development of virtual experiment method and application to social issues

Selected Publications

  • "On-the-job search in urban areas" (co-authored with Yasuhiro Sato), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 715-726, July 2012.
  • "An experimental test of a committee search model" (co-authored with Yoichi Hizen, Masaru Sasaki), European Economic Review, Volume 61, Pages 59–76, July 2013.
  • "Do Forest Permits Cause Deforestation in Indonesia?", (co-authored with Jarot Indarto, Shinji Kaneko), International Forestry Review, Volume 17, Pages 165-181, June 2015.
  • "Work Hour Mismatch and On-the-job Search", Economic Modelling, Volume 47, Pages 280-291, June 2015.
  • "Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on their Economic Growth", (with Khin Nwe, Yuichiro Yoshida), Asian Economic Journal, Volume 32, Page 39-54, 2018.
  • "Measuring the impact of modern waste collection and processing service attributes on residents'acceptance of waste separation policy using a randomised conjoint field experiment in Yogyakarta Province", Indonesia. (Katsufumi Fukuda, Rofiq Isdwiyani, Keisuke Kawata, Yuichiro Yoshida), Waste Management & Research, Volume 36, 841–848, 2018.
  • "Effect of Forced Relocation on Household Income and Consumption Patterns: Evidence from the Aynak Copper Mine Project in Afghanistan", (with Ghulam Dastgir, Yuichiro Yoshida), Journal of Development Studies, Volume 54, Page 2061–2077, 2018.
  • "Potential demand for voluntary community-based health insurance improvement in rural Lao People's Democratic Republic: A randomized conjoint experiment", (with T. Sydavong, D Goto, K Kaneko, M Ichihashi), PLOS ONE, 14(1): e0210355, 2019.
  • "Impact of Low-cost Carriers on International Air Passenger Movements to and from Major Airports in Asia". (with V. Bilotkach, T.S. Kim, J. Park, P. Purwandono, and Y. Yoshida), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 62, 28-57, 2019.
  • “Does experience sharing affect farmers’ pro-environmental behavior? A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam.” (co-authored with Vu, Ha Thu, et al.) World Development 136 (2020): 105062
  • “Measuring the Impacts of Saffron Production Promotion Measures on Farmers’ Policy Acceptance Probability: A Randomized Conjoint Field Experiment in Herat Province, Afghanistan.” (co-authored with Azimy, Mohammad Wais, et al. ) Sustainability 12.10 (2020): 4026
  • “An assessment of Abenomics from the labor market perspective.” (co-authored with Kawaguchi, Daiji and Takahiro Toriyabe) Asian Economic Policy Review (2021)
  • “A first aid kit to assess welfare impacts.” (co-authored with Yasuhiro Sato.) Economics Letters (2021): 109928.
  • “Describing the impacts of COVID-19 on the labor market in Japan until June 2020.” (co-authored with Fukai, Taiyo, and Hidehiko Ichimura.) Japanese Economic Review 72 (2021): 439-470.
  • “An analysis of the learning performance gap between urban and rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa.” (co-authored with Sumida, Sugata) South African Journal of Education 41 (2021)
  • “Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine preference: A survey study in Japan.” (co-authored with Masaki Nakabayashi) SSM-Population Health 15 (2021): 100902.
  • “The orphan impact: HIV-AIDS and student test scores from sub-Saharan Africa.” (co-authored with Blevins, Benjamin K.) Educational Review 73 (2021): 690-713.
  • “Labour market and wage inequalities between permanent rural migrants and urban-born residents in China.” (co-authored with Liu, Yang) Applied Economics (2022): 1-15.
  • “The citizen Preferences–Positive externality trade-off a survey study of COVID-19 vaccine deployment in Japan” SSM-Population Health (2022): 101191.

Educational Activities

Graduate Schools of Economics, University of Tokyo Machine Learning Methods in Empirical Economics
Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo Advanced Labor Economics (Graduate Level)
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