Research Fields
Public economics (primary); labor economics and microeconomic theory (secondary). Empirical work on tax policy and production networks, labor-market institutions and women's employment, and the health and crime consequences of economic shocks.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Cascades of Tax Policy Through Production Networks: Evidence From Japan
Southern Economic Journal, 2026, 1–18.
Earlier version: RIETI Discussion Paper 24-E-025 (2024).
VoxEU summary (2024)
Springing forward and falling back on health: The effects of daylight saving time on acute myocardial infarction
with Shinsuke Tanaka
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228: 106791.
Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 430 (2025)
Escalation of a local conflict into a Cold War
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023, 10: 648.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: new conditions for network games
Economic Theory (bulletin), 2023, 11(2): 223–233.
On the implementability of a ‘robot tax’
Economics Bulletin, 2023, 43(2): 759–768.
Working Papers
The Life Cycle of a Stereotype: Evidence from Blood-Type Discrimination in Japan
2025. Earlier version: RIETI Discussion Paper 25-E-017,
“Quantifying Social Construction: Evidence from Blood Type Discrimination in Japan” (2025).
How Much of Merit Is Due to Luck? Evidence on the Butterfly Effect of Luck
RIETI Discussion Paper 24-E-035, 2024.
Work in Progress
Licensed to Bargain? Occupational Licensing and the Second-Child Penalty in Japan
with Kentaro Nakajima and Atsushi Yamagishi
Preliminary draft.
When Firms Choose Cost Minimization over Growth: Evidence from Lost Decades in Japan
with Yaichi Aoshima
Trade shocks, health, and crime: evidence from linked administrative data in New Zealand
JSPS KAKENHI (B) project, 2026–2031.
Japan’s hometown tax donation (furusato nozei) program
with Nobuyuki Kanazawa and Kazuyuki Terada
Minimum wage and socially efficient job access
with Kent Smetters