The University of Tokyo

ミクロ実証ワークショップ　2025
Empirical Microeconomics Workshop 2025

  • ※ 特に表記のない限りセミナー発表は英語で行われます。（Unless otherwise mentioned, presentations are in ENGLISH.）

 

Companion Workshop

Applied Economics Workshop (AEW)

The AEW is a workshop organized by the University of Tokyo and several other research universities/institutes in Asia. The seminars are conducted online using Cisco WebEx, and pre-registration is mandatory. To participate, please register on the workshop's website using the following link:
https://sites.google.com/view/economicseminar/home

Applied Economics Workshopは、Cisco WebExを使ったオンラインでの開催(事前登録制）となります。参加をご希望の方は、下記ウェブサイトよりご登録下さい。
https://sites.google.com/view/economicseminar/home

 

 
Date
April 28, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute)
"Who Wins Wars?" with Jonathan Federle and Moritz Schularick [Paper]
Abstract Economic resources are often seen as decisive for the outcomes of military conflicts. This paper asks whether “deeper pockets” help win wars. We construct a fine-grained dataset covering more than 700 interstate disputes and rely on exogenous resource price shocks to estimate the causal effect of windfall gains on winning chances in interstate conflicts. We find a statistically significant and quantitatively large impact of windfall gains on winning odds and show that a key channel of transmission is a surge in military spending, after an exogenous increase in government revenues.
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
May 12, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Nobuhiko Nakazawa (Hitotsubashi University)
"The Impact of the Publication of School Test Scores on Housing Markets: Evidence from Japan"
Abstract Identifying parents' willingness to pay for school quality is a significant issue. To estimate the magnitude, we focus on the setting of Japanese public elementary schools, which are highly uniform in terms of school inputs and operate under a distinctive disclosure policy. Although the disclosure of test scores at the school level had been strictly prohibited in Japan, the central government implemented a reform in 2014 that allows for the publication of results by school. Employing a boundary discontinuity design close to school district boundaries combined with a difference-in-differences model before and after publication, we find heterogeneous results by market that an increase of one standard deviation in total test score leads to increased sale prices of apartments by 2.0%--2.7% but to increases in rents of only 0.4%--0.6% after publication. Our extended analysis suggests that the effects are slightly larger for math and applied content test scores than for Japanese and basic content scores.
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
May 19, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
TBA
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
May 26, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Joshua Gottlieb (University of Chicago)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Suk Joon Son
Date
June 2, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Rajeev Dehejia (New York University)
"Malleable minds: The effects of STEM v. humanities-focused curricula"
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Ryuichi Tanaka, Suk Joon Son
Date
June 9, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Timothy Halliday (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Andrew Griffen, Suk Joon Son
Date
June 16, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Kohei Kawaguchi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
June 23, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Stephan Litschig (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, GRIPS)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
July 14, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Chamna Yoon (Seoul National University)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
July 28, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Takeaki Sunada (University of Rochester)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
October 27, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Daniel Waldinger (New York University)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
November 10, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Arvind Magesan (University of Calgary)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Shintaro Yamaguchi, Suk Joon Son
Date
December 22, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Michael Dinerstein (Duke University)
TBA
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son

以下本年度終了分

Date
[Special Co-Hosted Seminar]
March 18, 2025（火　Tuesday）13:30-15:00
Venue

本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。オンラインでは(事前登録制）となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下部の説明をご確認ください。
This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction at the bottom of this website for details.


■対面会場(Venue) : 東京大学大学院経済学研究科学術交流棟（小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム

at the Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall)
Registration

以下の、当ワークショップ用Zoom URLよりご登録ください。

Empirical Microeconomics Workshop Zoom Registration URL:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfuyrrTwtHNyMNMOg1L8fx_niJtHgIwR4
Speaker & Title
Myoung-jae Lee (Korea University)
"Causal Reduced Form is the Long-Awaited True Model"
Abstract
Causal Reduced Form (CRF) is an "outcome (Y) representation linear in treatment D", with a causal parameter of interest as the slope of D. CRF is (almost) model-free, and holds for any Y (binary, count, continuous,...). Diverse CRF's appeared for various types of D: binary exogenous, multiple exogenous, binary endogenous, network treatment, mediator, DiD, etc. CRF has three uses. Firstly, it reveals the restrictions embedded in commonly used structural forms. Secondly, being linear in D, it allows estimating the causal parameter with OLS, IVE or GMM. Thirdly, substituting the CRF into an estimator formula shows what the estimator actually estimates. As it turns out, minor variants of many OLS and IVE controlling D and covariates X are consistent to an "overlap-weighted" average of X-heterogeneous effects of D for any form of Y.
Co-Host

Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID)
Organizer
Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son
Date
[Irregular Seminar]
March 26, 2025 (Wednesday) 10:30-12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Cody Cook (Yale University)
"Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location" with Pearl Z. Li, Ariel J. Binder [Slides]
Abstract How does the location of affordable housing affect household welfare, the distribution of assistance, and broader societal objectives such as racial integration? Using administrative data on affordable housing tenants, we first show that, despite fixed eligibility requirements, developments in higher-opportunity neighborhoods disproportionally house tenants who are higher-income, more educated, grew up in richer families, less likely to have children, and far less likely to be Black or Hispanic. To quantify the welfare implications, we build and estimate a model in which households choose from both market-rate and affordable housing options, where the latter are rationed by private developers. While building affordable housing in higher-opportunity neighborhoods costs more, it also increases household welfare and reduces racial and economic segregation. However, the welfare gains accrue to more moderate-need and white (non-Hispanic) households at the expense of other households. This distributional shift is primarily due to crowding out: households that only apply for assistance in higher-opportunity neighborhoods crowd out those willing to apply regardless of location. Relative to the choice of location, other policy levers—such as lowering the income limits used for means-testing—have only limited effects.
Co-Host
Organizer
Suk Joon Son
Date
April 7, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore)
"Wearing Your Religion: Evidence on Employers’ Preferences in Indonesia"
Abstract In collaboration with one of Indonesia’s largest job portals, we examine the effect of displaying religious identity on labor market outcomes. Using a modified version of the Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR) method with over 1,200 real employers, we find that signaling religious identity reduces hiring outcomes across several dimensions, including the likelihood of being hired, the probability of being interviewed, and the salary offered. These penalties are similar in magnitude for male and female candidates and remain consistent across job levels, job types, gender-specific job requirements, and employer gender. Belief elicitation exercises reveal that candidates displaying religious attributes are perceived as more religious but are also rated lower on traits valued by employers. An additional experiment examining applicants’ second-order beliefs shows that jobseekers are not fully aware of the negative consequences associated with displaying religious identity. Notably, many female jobseekers believe that wearing a headscarf helps them avoid unwanted attention in the workplace, which may inform their decision to adopt such religious markers despite potential labor market penalties.
Co-Host
Organizer
Mari Tanaka, Suk Joon Son
Date
April 11, 2025 (Friday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Pol Campos-Mercade (Lund University)
"What Money Shouldn’t Buy? Measuring Aversion to Monetary Incentives for Health Behaviors" with Armando N. Meier, Florian H. Schneider and Roberto A. Weber
Abstract We study attitudes toward offering monetary payments for vaccination. We develop the Policy Lab, an experimental paradigm to characterize policy preferences in which participants decide whether to implement actual interventions to influence others' real-world behavior. In two studies with representative samples of the Swedish population (N=2,010) and one with Swedish policymakers (N=2,008), participants decide whether to provide others (N=1,529) with monetary incentives for vaccination. A majority of participants oppose using monetary incentives. Despite the widespread perception that such incentives are an effective policy instrument, which is supported in our data, opposition to their use is driven by perceptions that they are coercive and unethical. Policymakers exhibit, if anything, greater opposition to the use of monetary incentives. We also document that opposition to incentives extends beyond vaccination to other health domains. Our study provides evidence that the public opposes policies that they correctly perceive as effective, potentially creating barriers to their adoption. We further introduce a novel method to elicit policy preferences, widely applicable whenever researchers conduct randomized trials.
Co-Host
Organizer
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son
Date
April 14, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Shyamal Chowdhury (Australian National University)
"The Formation of Economic Preferences" [Slides]
Abstract We use unique panel data on children’s economic preferences to study preference formation before the onset of adulthood. Our data encompass incentivized experiments eliciting time, risk, and social preferences as well as IQ tests with more than 4,500 children and adolescents aged 7-18 and their parents. We go beyond previous cross-sectional evidence by studying the dynamic, within-individual development of children’s preferences over time, demonstrating preference persistence already at young ages. Building on the model of skill formation (Cunha and Heckman 2007), we provide first evidence on self-productivity and cross-fertilization of children’s preferences and IQ. Moreover, we demonstrate that family members, parental investments, and local shocks are important sources of the substantial heterogeneity in children’s preference trajectories. Given the critical role of preferences and IQ in shaping behaviors and outcomes, our findings offer an explanation for social immobility.
Co-Host
Organizer
Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son
Date
April 21, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00
Venue 本ワークショップは、対面とZoomを利用してのオンラインでの、ハイブリッド開催となります。詳細は本ウェブサイト下の説明をご確認ください。

■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス　小島ホール1階第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Kojima Hall


This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction below for details.
Speaker & Title
Jong-Wha Lee (Korea University)
"Impact of Retirement and Re-employment on the Health of Older Adults" with Do Won Kwak (Korea University) [Paper]
Abstract Increasing life expectancy poses significant challenges to the employment and quality of life of older adults. This study examines the impact of retirement and re-employment on the health of older adults in Korea, utilizing longitudinal data from 2008 to 2020. We employ the instrumental variables method to estimate causal effects by leveraging variations in pension eligibility age and benefit amounts. The results reveal that retirement leads to a significant deterioration in health outcomes, including self-rated health, chronic diseases, and depression among older individuals. Conversely, re-employment after retirement is associated with a notable improvement in overall health. We find that retirement and re-employment influenced retirees’ health by changing their engagement in physical and social activities. These results suggest that policies encouraging late retirement or facilitating new employment opportunities and social activities post-retirement may mitigate or delay adverse health outcomes among older adults.
Co-Host
Organizer
Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son
Date
Cancelled
April 23, 2025 (Wednesday) 15:00-16:30
Venue
Speaker & Title
Robert A. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
Abstract
Co-Host
Organizer

 

対面とZoomを利用したハイブリッド開催について　（In-person and Online Seminars Using Zoom)

本ワークショップは対面とZoom を利用したオンラインでのハイブリッド開催の場合もあります。以下の注意事項を必ずご確認のうえご準備をお願いいたします。

Empirical Microecnomics Workshop may be held in-person and online using Zoom. Please read the following instruction for participation.

※　Zoom事前登録 (Zoom Registration)

事前登録が必須となります。 下記よりご登録頂けますと、 ミーティングURLがemailで送付されます。 事前に、ご利用の端末にZoomアプリケーションのインストールをお済ませください。 （Zoomアカウントをお持ちの方は、emailにあるID, パスワードを使ってサインインして頂くことも可能です。）

Registration is required to join a seminar via Zoom. Please register in advance at the following website so that detailed information containing meeting URL will be provided via email. Please make sure to install ZOOM Cloud Meetings (application)on your computer or cell phone in advance. (If you have a Zoom account, sign-up using ID and password included in the email is also available.)

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfuyrrTwtHNyMNMOg1L8fx_niJtHgIwR4

参加までの手順は下記より事前にご確認ください。 For more details, please see the following website.

日本語　・　English

※　注意 (Note)

1) 参加者名には、ご自分の氏名をお使い下さい。　Please register your full name when you participate.

2) 登録は初回のみ。すでにご登録されている方は、登録時にご案内済みのミーティングURLまたはミーティングID、パスワードでご入室頂けます。ただし、共催セミナーの場合、URLが変わる場合がありますのでお気をつけください。

Those who already registered previously need not register again. You can join the following meetings with the same meeting URL or the meeting ID as the one you received. Please note that the meeting URL will be changed when the seminar is hosted by another workshop.

3)セミナー中 (During Seminars)

ご自身の音声は、質疑応答時を除きOFFにしてください。 Please mute your microphone during a speaker's talk except for Q&A session.

Organizer: Suk Joon Son