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ミクロ実証ワークショップ 2024
Empirical Microeconomics Workshop 2024
- ※ 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.）
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)
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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 Micro Research Seminar 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.
※ 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.
※ 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. 音声OFFの手順 (Muting Participants in Zoom)
Organizer: Suk Joon Son |
Companion WorkshopApplied 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: 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。 |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Cody Cook (Yale University) TBA |
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| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
AY2025
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April 7, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore) TBA |
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| Organizer | Mari Tanaka, Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
April 14, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney) TBA |
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| Organizer | Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
April 21, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Jong-Wha Lee (Korea University) "Impact of Retirement and Re-employment on the Health of Older Adults" |
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| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yasuyuki Sawada, Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
May 26, 2025 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30 - 12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Joshua Gottlieb (University of Chicago) TBA |
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| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka, Suk Joon Son |
以下本年度終了分
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Mitsuru Igami (伊神 満) (Yale University, Yale Department of Economics) "Welfare Gains from LCD Innovations, 2001–2011" with Shoki Kusaka, Jeff Qiu, Tuyetanh L. Tran |
| Abstract | We assess the welfare impact of new technologies by using detailed data from theglobal industry of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels. We focus on measuring bothproductivity growth via process innovation and consumer benefits from new products.We find process innovation accounted for most of the welfare gains in the computersegment, whereas product innovation played a major role in the TV segment. Wefurther decompose process innovation into vintage capital and learning by doing, andproduct innovation into larger products and other new varieties. We then conduct aseries of benefit-cost analyses to quantify the social and private returns on technologicalinvestments. Results suggest social returns were large, but most firms’ private returnswere small or negative; competitive pressure forced them to invest nevertheless. |
| Co-Host | The University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) Microeconomics Workshop |
| Organizer | Kei Kawai, Suk Joon Son, Andrew Griffen |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Thomas Triebs (Loughborough University) Language as a Strategic Choice—Drawing Global Research Talent by Switching to English [Paper; an older version is available on SSRN] |
| Abstract | We show, using a difference-in-difference identification, that introducing English as the official language of instruction in a degree program increases the average journal impact factor (JIF) of new international faculty hires in Dutch and Belgian universities by 12-20%. These results are robust to a battery of controls including university and time fixed effects as well as university specific time trends. We argue that switching to English reduces labor mobility barriers, allowing universities in non-English speaking countries to recruit from the global talent pool. |
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| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Joshua Graff Zivin (University of California San Diego) "Disparties in Pollution Capitalization Rates: the Role of Direct and Systemic Discrimination" with Gregor Singer [Paper] |
| Abstract | We examine how exogenous changes in exposure to air pollution over the past two decades have altered the disparities in home values between Black and White homeowners. We find that air quality capitalization rates are significantly lower for Black homeowners. In fact, they are so much lower that, despite secular reductions in the Black-White pollution exposure gap, disparities in housing values have increased during this period. An exploration of mechanisms suggests that roughly one-quarter of this difference is the result of direct discrimination while the remaining three-quarters can be attributed to systemic discrimination through differential access to complementary amenities. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi, Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | April 8, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Carlo Cambini (Politecnico di Torino, The Department of MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING (DIGEP)) "Broadband and Innovation", by C. Cambini (Politecnico di Torino), P. Murro (LUISS, Rome), L. Sabatino (Politecnico di Torino), F. Schivardi (LUISS, Rome) e F. Sobbrio (Univ. Tor Vergata, Rome) |
| Abstract | "How advanced digital technologies affect firm’s incentives to innovate? This paper investigates the causal impact of broadband Internet on innovation using data from Italy. Thanks to web-scraped data from the European Patent Office, we identify patents with Italian inventors and allocate them across Italian municipalities based on inventors’ address. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered roll-out of DSL-based broadband connections starting from 2005, as well as the diffusion of the most recent fiber-based ultra-broadband connections started in 2015. Our results point to an increase in innovation from broadband Internet, as measured by the number of new patents, both in the first and second wave of broadband deployment." |
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| Organizer | Hiroshi Ohashi, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 | April 15, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Asad Islam (Monash University) "Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees" Asad Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, Tabassum Rahman, Tanvir Shatil, Abu Siddique [Paper] |
| Abstract | Forced displacement is a major driver of mental disorders among refugees worldwide. Poor mental health of adult refugees, particularly mothers, is also considered a risk factor for the psychological well-being and development of their children. In this study, we experimentally examine the extent to which a multifaceted psychosocial program improves the mental health of refugee mothers, and facilitates growth and development among children under the age of two. In partnership with BRAC, we ran a cluster randomized controlled trial on 3,500 Rohingya mother-child dyads in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Participants were given weekly psychosocial support for 44 weeks through peer volunteers, which includes psychoeducation and parenting support for mothers and play activities for both mothers and children. The intervention was largely successful and led to: (i) reductions in the psychological trauma and depression severity of mothers and children, (ii) improvements in communication, gross-motor, and problem-solving skills of children, and (iii) reductions in stunting and severe stunting. The intervention cost about $1 per dyad per week and is currently being scaled up in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where about seventeen thousand mother-child pairs now benefit from it. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yasuyuki Sawada, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 | April 18, 2024 (Thursday) 10:25-12:10 ※開催場所にご注意ください |
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| 場所 | 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上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2階第3セミナー室 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Gabriella Conti (University College London) "The Menopause “PENALTY”" Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Petra Persson, Barton Willage [Paper] |
| Abstract | Menopause is a major biological shock to women, marking the end of their reproductive years. Despite its relevance, scant research has studied how menopause impacts social dynamics, labor market outcomes, or health care demand. Using high-quality linked national register administrative data from Norway and Sweden, combined with a stacked difference in-differences design, we estimate the effect of menopause diagnosis on employment and earnings, reliance on social safety net programs, and demand for medical care. We find that menopause affects a broad swath of women's lives, ranging from a temporary increase in visits to doctors, to a persistent decline in full-time employment and earnings, and an increased receipt of social transfers. The earnings losses amount to 20% relative to the pre-menopause levels. Our results suggest that policies aimed at supporting women who suffer more serious symptoms around the menopausal transition may have wide-ranging benefits. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 | April 22, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Kwok Hao Lee (National University of Singapore) "Public Housing at Scale" an old version of the paper: [Paper] |
| Abstract | We consider the design of a large-scale public housing program where consumers face dynamic tradeoffs over apartments rationed via lotteries and prices. We show, theoretically and empirically, that changing rules complements increasing supply. First, we present a motivating example in which supplying more housing leads households to strategically delay their applications. By waiting for “better” developments arriving tomorrow, households forgo mediocre developments available today, resulting in more vacancies. Turning to the data from the mechanism, we formulate a dynamic choice model over housing lotteries and estimate it. Under the existing mechanism, we find that increasing supply fails to lower wait times. However, when a strategyproof mechanism is implemented, vacancies and wait times fall, but prices on the secondary market rise. Under this new mechanism, building more apartments lowers wait times and reduces the upward pricing pressure on the secondary market. |
| Co-Host | Micro Theory Workshop and UTMD |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | May 13, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Guy Michaels (London School of Economics and Political Science) "Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam" (joint with Vernon Henderson, Francisco Líbano-Monteiro, Martina Manara, and Tanner Regan) [Paper] |
| Abstract | Urban informality, which is prevalent in Africa's rapidly growing cities, can reduce private investments, lower tax bases, and exacerbate urban disamenities. A key policy tool to address this problem is greenfield urban planning where governments purchase cheap agricultural land on the urban fringe and partition it into planned, surveyed, and titled de novo plots, which people can purchase and build houses on. Yet, there is very little systematic evidence on the effects of de novo planning choices, such as the size and configuration of residential and non-residential plots. We study the consequences of such planning decisions in Tanzania's "20,000 plot" project, which provided over 36,000 residential plots in 12 project areas on the fringes of Dar es Salaam in the early 2000s. We study this project using detailed maps, questionnaires, and satellite imagery, and we combine within-neighborhood analysis and spatial regression discontinuity designs. We find that overall, the project secured property rights and access, thus boosting land values, and attracting highly educated owners; small plots, which command higher land values and are built more intensively, are under-provided; access to main paved roads is prized; and development rates are higher where plot layout is more gridded and small plots are bunched together. But planned non-residential amenities are ignored due to low implementation rates and about half the plots are still unbuilt, suggesting that despite the project’s success, significant improvements are possible. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Stacey Chen, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 | May 20, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Sitian Liu (Queen's University) "The effect of working from home on the agglomeration economies of cities: Evidence from advertised wages" (joint with Yichen Su) [Paper] |
| Abstract | Using job posting wage data, we find a substantial decrease in the urban wage premium for occupations with high working-from-home (WFH) adoption following the COVID-19 pandemic. This decline is accompanied by an employment shift away from large employment centers. Through the lens of a stylized model, our empirical findings suggest that WFH adoption weakens the agglomeration economies of cities. A decomposition exercise reveals that the urban wage premium drop is partly driven by reduced wage returns for interpersonal skills in large cities, suggesting that the weakening of the agglomeration effect stems partially from reduced interactive activities. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | May 27, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Nano Barahona (University of California Berkeley) "The Effects of Online Education on Market Structure and Students' Outcomes" |
| Abstract | We study the impact of a rapid expansion of the online for-profit tertiary education sector in Brazil over the past 15 years on market structure and students' outcomes. We leverage variation across regions with differential exposure to potential entrants induced by a regulatory reform that decreased the cost of opening online degrees in specific fields of study. We find that online degrees' entry to local markets expands access to tertiary education but also diverts students from alternative in-person degrees. Increased competition decreases in-person degrees' market power and deters future entry. We develop and estimate an entry and exit model where institutions choose what degrees to offer and what tuition fees to charge. We use the model to quantify the effects of the rapid expansion in online education supply on students' educational choices and outcomes. We find that in the absence of online education, students' educational value-added would have been 5\% larger. We find that policies targeting only older cohorts to attend online can keep young students at in-person degrees, reducing schools' exit and increasing the potential gains in value-added. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
[Irregular Seminar]
May 29, 2024 (Wednesday) 10:25-12:10 ※日時に注意 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Stephane Mechoulan (Dalhousie University) "Testing for Discrimination in Large Law Firms: an Outcome Test Approach" |
| Abstract | We investigate whether discrimination could account for the well-documented under-representation of minority groups among equity partners in large law firms. Using the After the JD data set ---a unique longitudinal survey of more than 4,000 lawyers--- we test for disparities in promotion rates along the dimensions of gender as well as age, parenthood, and law school rank using an observational variant of the outcome test. We find that marginal female partners are slightly less productive than their male peers in terms of billable hours, and that lawyers who graduate from top law schools are slightly less productive than their non-top law school peers in terms of new matters brought to the firm. Other comparisons do not reveal significant differences. We document that promotion does not affect perceptions of discrimination. Further, relative to lawyers working in other environments, there appears more of a perception of discrimination in private law firms. |
| Organizer | Hiroshi Ohashi, Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
June 3, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Krislert Samphantharak (University of California San Diego) "The Double-Edged Sword: Unintended Consequences of SME Promotion Policy" Athiphat Muthitacharoen, Archawa Paweenawat, Krislert Samphantharak [Paper] |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the unintended consequences of size-dependent regulations in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) promotion policies. We use data from all registered Thai firms to analyze the effects of an introduction of a revenue cap for the SME tax incentive program qualification. Our study shows a marked bunching of firms just below the cap, illustrating its tax salience. We provide suggestive evidence that a significant of the observed bunching could be due to real operation responses. A difference-in-differences analysis indicates that eligible firms just under the threshold exhibit a significant decline in revenue growth compared to those just above it. This adverse effect is more pronounced among firms with lower pre-policy profitability. We further document substantial negative effects on investment and profitability. In addition, our findings indicate a marked reduction in the presence of large firms, suggesting the broader implications on the firm size distribution in the economy. We highlight the paradox within size-based SME policies: while intended to help smaller businesses, the measures might inadvertently suppress growth and create resource isallocation. This study underscores the need for a careful policy design that supports SMEs without impeding their potential for growth. |
| Co-Host | Kokusai Sendo |
| Organizer | Yasuyuki Sawada |
| 日時 |
June 10, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Ricardo Perez-Truglia (University of California Berkeley, the Haas School of Business)
"What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking" [Paper] |
| Abstract | Firms are allowed to use aggregate data on market salaries to set pay, a practice known as salary benchmarking. Using national payroll data, we study firms that gain access to a tool that reveals market benchmarks for each job title. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the benchmark information reduces salary dispersion by 25%. Thus, salary dispersion must stem partly from aggregate uncertainty about the salaries offered by other firms. Our model formalizes how salary dispersion can arise even in competitive labor markets for identical workers when such uncertainty exists, and we discuss implications for an ongoing policy debate. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
June 17, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota) "E-Reaching the Out of Reach: Evidence on Educating Out of School Children Using Digital Content and Remote Tutoring" |
| Abstract | Despite efforts to increase educational attainment worldwide over the last several decades, approximately 250 million children age 6 to 18 are out of school. Engaging with and raising the human capital of these out-of-school children), with the hopes that they may eventually return to formal schooling, is important both for economic growth and reducing social and economic inequality. In this study, we estimate the impacts of providing children who have dropped out of school with tablets that have built-in educational software and a phone connection to a private tutor. We conducted a randomized control trial with 890 OOSC across Bangladesh. We find that the provision of tablets and tutors increases math scores by approximately 0.25 standard deviations (of the distribution of test scores) and language scores by approximately 0.17 standard deviations. Effects on academic achievement are especially strong for girls, compared to boys, as well as rural, compared to urban, OOSC. By contrast, the program had no effect on noncognitive traits such as competence, self-esteem, and grit. Taken together, these findings provide one intervention that can improve the educational outcomes of OOSC in developing countries, as well as more broadly the educational outcomes of children whose attendance might be affected by temporary school closures due to pandemics or other emergencies. |
| Co-Host | Kokusai Sendo |
| Organizer | Yasuyuki Sawada |
| 日時 |
June 24, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | David Chan (Stanford University) "The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department" |
| Abstract | This paper studies the productivity of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians, two professions performing overlapping tasks but with starkly different background, training, and pay. Using quasi-experimental variation in patient assignment to NPs versus physicians in Veterans Health Administration emergency departments, we find that, on average, NPs use more resources and achieve less favorable patient outcomes than physicians. However, the NP-physician performance difference varies by case complexity and severity. Importantly, even larger productivity variation exists within each profession, leading to substantial overlap between the productivity distributions of the two professions and a large share of NPs performing even better than the average physician. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
July 1, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Fabrizio Mazzonna (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) "Health and Labor Market Consequences of Low-Value Care: The Role of Practice Style" Mattia Albertini, Pieter Baxk, Fabrizio Mazzonna |
| Abstract | We investigate the labor market and health consequences of benzodiazepine treatment following the loss of a close relative, analyzing the impact of different prescribing styles among general practitioners (GPs). By integrating Dutch GP records with administrative data on labor market and health insurance expenditures, we identified approximately 76,000 working-age individuals who lost a close relative between 2010 and 2016. Employing a dynamic difference-in-differences model, we find that individuals exposed to GPs with a higher propensity to prescribe benzodiazepines not only have a higher likelihood of receiving such treatments but are also less likely to consult mental health specialists post-loss. These treatment patterns correspond with more frequent out-of-guideline prescriptions. Our findings further show detrimental effects on the labor market, including increased likelihood of unemployment benefits in the short term and reduced work income over the medium to long term. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
※ 修士論文報告会 Master's Thesis Presentations ※
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| 場所 | ■ 対面会場: 東京大学大学院経済学研究科学術交流棟（小島ホール）1階第1セミナー室 |
| Notice | * You MUST attend an official oral examination in addition to this master thesis presentation: for details, please see the schedule to be distributed by the Graduate Office when you submit your thesis. |
| 報告 | Monday, July 8 Monday, July 22 Seminar Room 1, 1st Floor, Kojima Hall |
| 日時 |
July 22, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上の説明をご確認ください。 ※場所が変更されました ■対面会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス 小島ホール2階小島コンファレンスルーム This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Yusuke Narita (成田 悠輔) (Yale University) "Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century" |
| Abstract | We find that democracy has persistent negative impacts on GDP growth and night-time light intensity growth in 2001-2022. This finding emerges from descriptive and five different instrumental variable strategies. Our analysis also suggests the following mechanism: Many electoral democracies in this century become more populist and protectionist, which come with lower investment growth, lower trade growth, and resulting lower total economic growth. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] September 13, 2024 (Friday) 3:30pm-5:00pm※開催日時にご注意ください |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Seth Zimmerman (Yale University) "Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten." |
| Abstract | |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] September 30, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Victor Lavy (The Hebrew University & University of Warwick) "School management takeover, leadership change, and personnel policy" joint with Emma Duchini, Stephen Machin, and Shqiponja Telhaj [Paper] |
| Abstract | Low-performing schools notoriously struggle to maintain efficient school governance, and attract and retain high-quality teachers. This paper studies a setting where independent organizations, including educational charities and private businesses, take over the management of under-performing, disadvantaged public schools. Exploiting the staggered introduction of English academies, we show that sponsor-led takeovers lead to substantial changes in the teaching body and the school personnel policy. First, the probability that sponsors appoint a new headteacher doubles upon the takeover. New headteachers are, on average, less experienced, but more likely to come from outstanding schools and better paid. Second, the takeover induces teacher sorting, increasing the probability that more experienced and lower-achieving teachers leave. At the same time, new hires are younger, more likely to be Teach First teachers and come from outstanding schools. Third, and likely contributing to explain these dynamics, sponsors substantially restructure teachers' pay policy and abandon a seniority-based pay scale. Finally, private businesses are more likely to appoint a new headteacher from outside the education sector and attract Teach First teachers, potentially contributing to better student performance. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Shintaro Yamaguchi (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
October 7, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz) "Estimating performance costs and benefits of collective employee turnover: A theory-driven method and applications" [Paper] |
| Abstract | Employee turnover is costly, but it may also benefit performance through improving job-worker match quality. There is no method to compute turnover costs and benefits separately. As a result, the existing turnover cost estimates may be wrong, potential benefits undetected, and theories proposing these benefits wrongly rejected. We develop a theory-driven, flexible and easily implementable method to estimate turnover costs and benefits from data, illustrate it with two applications, and provide detailed user guidance. Our work offers deeper insight into the forces shaping performance effects of turnover, and, arguably, a better way of testing theories predicting a curvilinear relationship between turnover and performance. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
October 21, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Naijia Guo (The University of Hong Kong) "Childbirth and Welfare Inequality: The Role of Bargaining Power and Intrahousehold Allocation" with Anning Xie [Paper] |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the impact of childbirth on wives' bargaining power and welfare by analyzing labor market responses and adjustments in intrahousehold resource allocation. Using data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (1993–2020) and employing an event study approach, we find that wives, relative to their husbands, experience a 34.9% decrease in private consumption and a 7.5% decrease in leisure following the birth of the first child. We develop a collective bargaining framework to estimate the effects of parenthood on bargaining power, preferences for consumption and leisure, and productivity in producing public goods for both spouses. Our analysis reveals that the wife's bargaining power declines by 34.3% after childbirth, while both spouses' preferences for public goods increase. As a result, the arrival of a child leads to a 12.2% decline in welfare for wives but a 7.0% increase for husbands. Our counterfactual analysis indicates that if a wife's bargaining power had remained unaffected by childbirth, her welfare would have increased by 2.6 percentage points compared to the baseline. Furthermore, if there had been no wage penalties imposed on the wife, her welfare would have increased by 7.8 percentage points. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Shintaro Yamaguchi (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
Class Cancelled
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | |
| Abstract | |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
November 11, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Suguru Otani (The University of Tokyo) 大谷克 ( 東京大学) "Industry Dynamics with Cartels: The Case of the Container Shipping Industry" [Paper] |
| Abstract | I investigate how explicit cartels, known as “shipping conferences”, in a global container shipping market facilitated the formation of one of the largest globally integrated markets through entry, exit, and shipbuilding investment of shipping firms. Using a novel data, I develop and construct a structural model and find that the cartels shifted shipping prices by 20-50% and encouraged firms’ entry and investment. In the counterfactual, I find that cartels would increase producer surplus while slightly decreasing consumer surplus, then may increase social welfare by encouraging firms’ entry and shipbuilding investment. This would validate industry policies controlling prices and quantities in the early stage of the new industry, which may not be always harmful. Investigating hypothetical allocation rules supporting large or small firms, I find that the actual rule based on tonnage shares is the best to maximize social welfare. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| 日時 |
November 18, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Kuan-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University) "External Costs of Traffic Accidents: Accounting for the Survivors" |
| Abstract | We estimate the external costs of traffic accidents. In Taiwan, such incidents cause more than 3,000 deaths and 500,000 injuries annually. Given the lack of longitudinal records for injured individuals, previous literature has primarily focused on fatalities, leaving the costs to survivors largely unexplored. Yet, survivors outnumber fatalities, and the long-term medical costs and impacts on the labor market may play a crucial role. Our study addresses this gap by estimating the costs to survivors.
In this study, we link the National Health Insurance Research Database with the universe of the administrative records of traffic accidents involving any death or injury. We construct a longitudinal dataset covering 20 years, from 2000 to 2019, which includes detailed demographic, health, and labor market information. To estimate the external costs, we use an event study design to assess the long-term impact of traffic accidents, finding that the health and labor market outcomes for individuals involved in accidents significantly differ from those uninvolved, even after controlling for age and gender. This indicates that accidents are not randomly distributed among individuals. In light of this, our main event study design employs a later-treated control group, enhancing our confidence in establishing causal relationships. Our findings reveal that traffic accidents most significantly affect individuals aged 30 to 60, with victims experiencing an average income reduction of NTD 7,500 five years post-accident and a decrease in annual working months by 2.5 months. The impacts vary significantly by age, sex, and accident severity. These results are crucial for evaluating the costs and benefits of traffic policies and safety infrastructure improvements. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Shigeoka (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
December 9, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Danielle Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) "Generative AI at Work" with Erik Brynjolfsson, Lindsey Raymond [Paper] |
| Abstract | We study the staggered introduction of a generative AI-based conversational assistant using data from 5,172 customer support agents. Access to AI assistance increases worker productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 15 percent on average, with substantial heterogeneity across workers. The effects vary significantly across different agents. Less experienced and lowerskilled workers improve both the speed and quality of their output while the most experienced and highest-skilled workers see small gains in speed and small declines in quality. We also find evidence that AI assistance facilitates worker learning and improves English fluency, particularly among international agents. While AI systems improve with more training data, we find that the gains from AI adoption are largest for moderately rare problems, where human agents have less baseline experience but the system still has adequate training data. Finally, we provide evidence that AI assistance improves the experience of work along several dimensions: customers are more polite and less likely to ask to speak to a manager. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yasutora Watanabe (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
December 23, 2024 (Monday) 10:25-12:10
Seminar Presentation 10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 | 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上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 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Tong Li (Vanderbilt University) "Constitutional Rules, Government Formation, and Cabinet Survival with Competing Risks" joint with Daniel Diermeier, Chris Li and Jun Zhao |
| Abstract | We construct a structural framework that addresses government formation and duration in multi-party parliamentary democracies. The structural model accommodates various constitutional features including government bicameralism and uses competing risks to address whether cabinets are replaced by a new coalition or early elections. We estimate our structural model with newly collected data from nine West European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden) from 1947 to 2023. We conduct counterfactual exercises to evaluate the effects of bicameralism and other institutional features of the political environment on the duration of the government formation process and the compositions and stability of formed government coalitions. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yasutora Watanabe (Suk Joon Son) |
| Date and Time | January 8, 2025（水 Wednesday）9:30 - 10:00 |
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| Venue | 経済学研究科棟12階第1共同研究室 |
| Notice | * You MUST attend an official oral examination in addition to this master thesis presentation: for details, please see the schedule to be distributed by the Graduate Office when you submit your thesis. |
| Speakers | NISHIDA Koshi (Readers: Okui (supervisor), Shimotsu, Kawai, Sakaguchi) |
| Workshop |
Empirical Microeconomics Workshop
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| 日時 |
January 9, 2025 (Thursday) 10:30-12:00
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| 場所 | 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上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2階第3セミナー室 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Ossian Prane (Stockholm University) Carbon Pricing and Fuel Switching by Firms: Theory and Evidence [Paper] |
| Abstract | What determines the effectiveness of carbon pricing in reducing CO2 emissions? Prior research points to the importance of firm-level technology adjustments but provides limited evidence on the specific technologies involved. We develop and estimate a model of heterogeneous firms' fuel choices to quantify the importance of fuel switching. The model explains three empirical findings from Swedish microdata: (1) fuel choices vary both across and within industries, (2) fuel switching accounts for a large share of the decline in manufacturing emissions between 2004 and 2020, and (3) higher carbon taxes have led firms to switch away from fossil fuels toward electricity and biofuels. Counterfactual analysis suggests that carbon pricing is effective in reducing manufacturing emissions, with fuel switching explaining roughly half of this effect. Market share reallocation toward cleaner firms further reduces emissions but increases the adverse impact on output. The cost of carbon pricing varies considerably across industries, due to differences in the firms' abilities to replace fossil fuels with efficient alternatives. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
January 10, 2025 (金 Friday) 15:00-16:30
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| 場所 | ■会場: 東京大学本郷キャンパス 小島ホール1階第2セミナー室 |
| 報告 | James Raymo (Princeton University) Medically Assisted Reproduction in Japan: Prevalence and Socioeconomic Differentials |
| Abstract | In East Asian societies, very low levels of fertility reflect the trend toward later and less marriage. Because non-marital childbearing remains rare in East Asia, the well-established relationship between biological age and fecundity means that later age at marriage and childbearing results in increasing concerns about infertility and increasing use of medically assisted reproduction (MAR). To this end, Japan holds the global record for the highest volume of MAR activity and the Japanese government now provides some public insurance coverage for fertility treatment as part of its broader policy response to concerns about low fertility. While MAR opens new possibilities for fulfilling childbearing aspirations for infertile couples, it also introduces a potentially new socio-economic divide. Using data collected from five rounds of the nationally representative Japanese National Fertility Survey (JNFS), conducted between 2002 and 2021, this study aims to shed new light on the prevalence of infertility among first-married Japanese couples and explore potential socio-economic disparities in experiencing infertility, using MAR, and achieving a birth after having used treatment. |
| Host | Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop, GraSPP research seminar |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi, (Suk Joon Son) |
| 日時 |
January 14, 2025 (Tuesday) 13:00-14:30
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| 場所 | 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上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2階第3セミナー室 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Yuxiao Hu (London School of Economics) Government and Nature: Evidence from the Distribution of Flood Damages in China |
| Abstract | With increasing flood risks, it is increasingly important to understand the impact of government interventions that reallocate flood damages. In 2000, the Chinese government designated 96 Flood Detention Basin (FDB) counties, allocating lower-elevation areas within these counties for temporary floodwater storage. During severe flood events, floodwater may be diverted to these FDB counties to protect downstream urban centers. We evaluate the aggregate and distributional impacts of the FDB policy. Difference-in-differences results show that if a county is selected to the FDB list, county-level firm entry and firm-level fixed asset investments would decrease by 15.9% and 19.7%, respectively. Overall, FDB designation results in a 10.7% reduction in county-level nighttime light intensity. We then develop a spatial general equilibrium model that captures trade linkages among FDB counties, protected cities, and other regions. By comparing the actual output to a counterfactual scenario without FDBs, we find that as FDBs absorb more floodwater, the policy’s output gains increase; however, this comes at the cost of growing inequality between FDB counties and others. In summary, FDBs may improve economic resilience against floods, but the economic cost is taken disproportionately by rural counties. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
January 16, 2025 (Thursday) 10:30-12:00
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| 場所 | 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上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2階第3セミナー室 This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Guglielmo Zappala (University of California, Berkeley) Propagation of extreme heat in agriculture across sectors and space [Paper] |
| Abstract | Agriculture is widely recognized as one of the sectors most vulnerable to extreme tem- peratures. Yet, crop losses are estimated to form only a modest share of aggregate macroe- conomic damages from climate change, since agriculture accounts for a small share of global GDP. These estimates, however, arise from analyses that largely ignore the critical role of agriculture as an upstream sector in global production networks, including the sectoral and spatial linkages connecting local agricultural output to other sectors and regions. In this paper, I develop a a novel reduced form method to incorporate input linkages be- tween sectors and countries that I use to estimate the aggregate impacts of extreme heat in agriculture. A multi-region multi-sector production network model illustrates how ex- treme heat in agriculture can propagate to downstream sectors across countries by reducing supply availability and increasing intermediate input prices. Exploiting the geographic dis- tribution and temperature sensitivity of 118 crops across the world, I construct a measure of exposure to extreme heat in agriculture and show that it induces substantial losses to downstream sectors, across national borders, and beyond first degree linkages. Counterfac- tual exercises reveal that input linkages are responsible for approximately 70% of the total value added losses induced by extreme heat in agriculture. The analysis demonstrates that adaptation in agriculture to heat in regions that are central to global production networks can have substantial co-benefits downstream and in other locations |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| Date | January 6 and 20, 2025（月 Monday）9:00- |
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| Notice | * You MUST attend an official oral examination in addition to this master thesis presentation: for details, please see the schedule to be distributed by the Graduate Office when you submit your thesis. |
| Workshop | ミクロ実証ワークショップ ミクロ実証ワークショップの修論報告会については、以下のページをご覧ください。
[Empirical Microeconomics Master's Thesis Presentation 2024] |
| 日時 | [Irregular Seminar] January 21, 2025 (火 Tuesday) 15:00-16:30Seminar Presentation 15:00 - 16:30 ※曜日と会場に注意 |
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| 場所 | 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上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2階コンファレンスルーム This seminar is held in-person and online (registration is required for online participation). Please read the instruction above for details. |
| 報告 | Yujung Hwang (Johns Hopkins University) "Designing an Immigrant Social Integration Policy" [Paper] |
| Abstract | I estimate a dynamic general equilibrium model of neighborhood choice and immigrants’ cultural assimilation using an 18-year-long micro panel dataset that includes neighborhood choices and proxy variables for immigrants’ cultural traits. Both immigrants and natives choose their neighborhoods, considering cultural similarities with neighbors. Immigrants also make decisions about their level of cultural assimilation, with the associated costs varying based on their exposure to native residents. Using the model estimates, I show how a hypothetical rent subsidy, granted conditional on living in a diverse neighborhood, can induce neighborhood desegregation and immigrants’ cultural assimilation under a budget-balancing tax. |
| Co-Host | |
| Organizer | Suk Joon Son |
| Date and Time | January 22, 2025（水 Wednesday）12:00 - 12:30 |
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| Venue | 経済学研究科棟12階第2共同研究室 |
| Notice | * You MUST attend an official oral examination in addition to this master thesis presentation: for details, please see the schedule to be distributed by the Graduate Office when you submit your thesis. |
| Speakers | OKAMURA Soyoka (Readers: Kawai (supervisor), Y. Watanabe, Son) |
| Workshop |
Empirical Microeconomics Workshop
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