2024年度の活動報告
Kenta Tanaka (Research Group Representative)
Activity results
In order to achieve the objectives of this study group, which are to deepen academic knowledge for building a sustainable society and economy and to stimulate research activities that contribute to building a sustainable society and economy, this study group has been working to build a research system through exchanges and discussions with related researchers both in Japan and abroad.
In 2024, the second year of the study group, the group's activities centered on research seminars inviting researchers from Japan and abroad. This year's study group held a total of 24 research seminars and workshops, including workshops co-hosted with funding from other research sources. We were able to invite not only researchers affiliated with Japanese research institutions, but also researchers conducting research overseas, and, as in the first year, we were able to gain multifaceted knowledge for building a sustainable society and economy. The research seminars held in 2024 are as follows. (The affiliations of the presenters are those at the time of the report.)
<Research meetings held>
・Hayato Umetani (Kobe University)
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time: 13:30-15:00
Title: Wildfires, Pollution, and Pregnancy Outcomes: Evidence from Lightning-Initiated Wildfires
・Kyota Eguchi (Chuo University)
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: The impact of the House of Representatives electoral system reform on candidates' public relations strategies: An analysis of the Tokyo electoral district "election bulletins"
・Kentaro Asai (Paris School of Economics, France)
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: Firm-Level Effects of Reductions in Working Hours
・Makoto Watanabe (Kyoto University)
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
・Florian Diekert (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Date: Monday, June 3, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: Subsidzing Compliance in an Open-Access Fishery
・Arnaud LEFRANC (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: Does comprehensive compulsory schooling equalize opportunities? Evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform
・Uchikoshi Fumiya (Princeton University, USA)
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: The role of skill portability in shaping women's career trajectories: Evidence from Japan
・Amy Catalinac (New York University, USA)
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Time: 17:15-18:45
Title: Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan
・Yukiko Asai (University of Chicago, USA)
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Gender Bias in Evaluation and Promotion
・Yoshi Tomi (Waseda University)
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: In Utero Exposure to Radiation Fear and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
・Mitsuru Katagiri (Hosei University)
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
Title: Beyond Flexibility: Pitfalls in Liberalizing Temporary Workers
・Takashi Shimizu (Kobe University)
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: On the Combination of Biased Members
・Daiki Kishishita (Tokyo University of Science)
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Time: 17:00-18:30
・Jieun Shin (IESE Barcelona)
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Fuel Prices and Carbon Emissions: The Role of Structured Management Practices
・Itaru Sekiguchi (Kyoto University)
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Bertrand Equilibrium with Capacity Constraints under a Sales Maximization
・Kazuhiro Teramoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Can Internal Mobility Reduce Employee Attrition? Evidence from Business-Card Data
・Ken Miura (Kyoto University)
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Hidden Actions by Wives in Contraceptive Behavior: Evidence from Zambian Couples (w/ Kayako Nagasawa)
・Atsushi Yamagishi (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut
・Yuta Toyama (Waseda University)
Date: Friday, December 13, 2024
Time: 16:00-17:30
Title: Designing Nonlinear Electricity Pricing with Misperception: Evidence from Free Electricity Policy (w/ Ngawang Dendup)
・Jun Goto (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Judicial Independence and Economic Development: Evidence from the Constitutional Reinterpretation in India
・Takuya Ishihara (Tohoku University)
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025
Time: 14:00-15:30
Title: Identifying the Identifiable: Empirical Learning of the Point-Identified Subset for Regression Discontinuity Designs
・Chihiro Inoue (Kobe University)
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025
Time: 16:00-17:30
Title: Girls Help Girls but Not Boys: Revisiting Gender Peer Effects in Elementary Schools
Keisuke Takano (Saga University)
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Location advantages and sorting in high school education
Furthermore, following discussions held at previous study groups, joint research among study group members has progressed, and we are considering applying for external research funding from science and technology research funds and foundations in the future.
Future developments
Regarding future developments for this study group, in order to achieve the goal of this study group, which is to advance research that contributes to the creation of a sustainable society and economy, we plan to continue to hold study groups, research seminars, research workshops, etc., inviting related researchers from Japan and abroad. Furthermore, based on the knowledge gained from the study group's activities so far, we will more actively promote collaborative research that makes use of the networks that have been formed between and through the study group's activities. Furthermore, we would like to further promote exchanges with researchers in other academic fields and expand our study group activities so that study group members can also participate.