Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics 6
th MeetingCo-organized by International Workshop on Empirical Studies on Smart Community and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
August 1-2, 2017
Mizuho Lecture Room, Second Floor
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Program
Tuesday, August 1
9:30-9:55 Registration
Session 1
10:00-10:50 Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
"Equality-Minded Treatment Choice" (joint with Aleksey Tetenov)
10:50-11:40 Kosuke Uetake (Yale)
"Working under Search and Information Frictions:
Evidence from an Online Crowdsourcing Platform Experiment" (joint with Yusuke Narita)
11:40-13:20 Lunch
Session 2
13:20-14:00 Takanori Ida (Kyoto)
"Interactions of Stated and Revealed Preferences: A Case from Liberalization of Retail Electricity in Japan"
14:00-14:40 Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi) TBA
Session 3
15:00-15:30 Mai Seki (JICA Research Institute)
"Individualized Self-learning Program to Improve Primary Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh" (joint with Yasuyuki Sawada, An Le, Minhaj Mahmud, and Hikaru
Kawarazaki)
15:30-16:00 Hideto Koizumi (Wharton)
"Preference Estimation by Machine Learning"
16:00-16:30 Chishio Furukawa (MIT)
"Family Taxation as Social Insurance"
Session 4
16:50-17:40 Yuta Toyama (Northwestern)
"An Empirical Model of Permit Market Equilibrium with Banking and Costly Trading: Estimates from the US Acid Rain Program"
17:40-18:30 Yuhei Miyauchi (MIT)
"Market Thickness, Input-Output Linkages, and Agglomeration"
Wednesday, August 2 Session 5
8:50-9:40 Hiroyuki Kasahara (UBC)
"The Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961:
County-Level Evidence" (joint with Binjing Li) 9:40-10:20 Kensuke Teshima (ITAM)
"Chinese Competition, Labor Market Shock and the Mexican Drug War" (joint with Melissa Dell and Benjamin Feigenberg)
Session 6
10:40-11:10 Daiji Kawaguchi (Tokyo)
"Local Violence, Market Transactions and Living Standard: Disruptive Impact of the Mexican Drug War, 2000–2012" (joint with Alberto J. Iniguez- Montiel)
11:10-11:40 Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi)
"The Impacts of Constructing Secondary and Vocational Schools: Historical Evidence in Japan"
11:40-12:10 Ken Yamada (Kyoto) "Heterogeneous Impact of the Minimum Wage: Wage Differentials and Inequality"
(joint with Tatsushi Oka) 12:10-13:40 Lunch
Session 7
13:40-14:30 Koichiro Ito (Chicago)
"Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice" (joint with Takanori Ida and Makoto Tanaka)
Session 8
14:50-15:30 Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster)
"How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?"
15:30-16:10 Masayuki Kudamatsu (Osaka)
"Frozen Conflicts: the Impact of Internationally Unrecognized States on Post-conflict Recovery"
Session 9
16:30-17:00 Kentaro Nakajima (Hitotsubashi)
"Workers’ Communication Network and Their Working Performance"
17:00-17:30 Hisaki Kono (Kyoto)
"Lending Maturity of Microcredit and Dependence on Moneylenders"
17:30-18:00 Katsunori Yamada (Kindai)
"Pronoun Drop Language and Social Preferences:
Experimental Evidence from Japan" (joint with He (NTU), Riyanto (NTU), and Tanaka (ATR))
