Yasuyuki Sawada
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3710059 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yasuyuki Sawada |
| PRENOMES | Yasuyuki |
| SOBRENOME | Sawada |
| ASSINATURA | SAWADA Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Tokyo |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcomes|the cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of disadvantaged pupils|in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find substantial improvements in cognitive abilities measured by mathematics test scores and catch-up effects on aspects of non-cognitive abilities or personality tr…
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster
BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest that experience of natural disasters may heighten present bias. Research also suggests that impaired self-control (in particular, heightened present bias) could be linked to delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among survivors of natural disasters. We examined a hypothesis that the association between disaster experiences and delayed-onset PTSS is mediated through present bias among older surviv…
Short and Long Recall Errors in Retrospective Household Surveys
While recall errors in retrospective data from household surveys may generate estimation biases, the nature and the relative magnitude of the errors are still largely unknown, especially in the context of developing countries. To bridge this gap in the existing studies, we conduct a resurvey of respondents of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLS) 2006. The combined data set allows us to investigate a variety of short-term and long-…
Disasters, Insurance, and Preferences
Recently both developed and developing countries have experienced numerous serious disasters that can be subdivided into four major groups: natural, technological, economic crises, and violence-related disasters. These negatively affect not only the livelihoods of the survivors but also their preferences for risks and time delays. In preparation for or in the aftermath of a disaster, various indispensable market and nonmarket mechanisms are avail…
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters
This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an optimum combination of community-level networks, private market mechanisms, and state-based assistance strategies. Its chapters describe best prac…
The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami
An Analysis of Suicides in Japan, 1997-2007
How Access to Irrigation Influences Poverty and Livelihoods
This study combines a livelihoods approach with a regression approach to quantify the effectiveness of irrigation infrastructure investment on improving people's livelihood strategies. Using a unique dataset based on households in southern Sri Lanka, and a natural experimental setting, we estimate from a two-stage income regression model to show that irrigation access has a positive effect on income through livelihood choices. We also show throug…
Is trust really social capital? Commentary on Carpiano and Fitterer (2014)
Does Community Management Help Keep Children in Schools? Evidence Using Panel Data from El Salvador's Educo Program
This article investigates how community management of schools can affect educational outcomes as measured by retention rates. In our model, parents make decisions about whether or not their children should remain in school, and they monitor the performance of the teachers. We analyze a unique data set from El Salvador, which expanded the role of communities in school management through its Educación con Participación de la Comunidad (EDUCO) progr…
Why is Absenteeism Low among Public Health Workers in Lao PDR
Absenteeism among public health workers is common in developing countries. Absence rates among public health workers are above 25 per cent in the five developing countries that Chaudhury et al. (N. Chaudhury, J. Hammer, M. Kremer, K. Muralidharan, and F.H. Rogers (2006) Missing in action: Teacher and health worker absence in developing countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20, pp. 91–116) examined. However, the present study finds that the…
Transformation of the Rural Economy in the Philippines, 1988–2006
This research explores the changing structure of the rural economy in the Philippines from 1988 to 2006. We found that the expansion and upgrade of infrastructure such as electricity and roads and investment in secondary and tertiary education are important factors that induced the economic transformation of the rural economy. The importance of higher education as an entry requirement to the nonfarm labor market has declined over time, indicating…
The Changing Determinants of Schooling Investments
This paper aims to explore the changing determinants of child progress through school over the last two decades using unique long-term household-panel data from four villages in the Philippines. In a regime of low income in the late 1980s, income from farming is the most important source of funds to finance child schooling. As households shift away from farm to non-farm activities and their children pursue higher education, non-farm income and re…
Did Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers in Korea During the Financial Crisis
How effective are public transfers in protecting households facing financial crisis-induced negative shocks? Existing studies have not yet carefully considered the inter-relationship between public transfers and the existing private transfer network. In the context of the financial crisis in Korea, this paper investigates the possible crowding-out effect of public transfers on private transfers by explicitly considering the endogenous responses o…
Those Who are Left Behind
The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises
There are diverse sources of credit for micro and small manufacturing enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries, ranging from relatives and friends, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), micro finance institutions, and commercial banks. Using a unique set of data on MSEs in garment clusters in Nairobi, this study attempts to identify the determinants of access to different credit sources and their impacts on firm profitability and g…
Aid and Poverty Alleviation
Summaries This article evaluates the poverty alleviation effect of international aid provided by Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Development Assistance Committee members, and multilateral organizations. A consistent poverty evaluation framework together with head count ratio data comparable across countries is employed. Results indicate that aid expansion by the government of Japan is relatively inefficient and ineffective in te…
The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
An Analysis of Suicides in Japan, 1997-2007
Those Who are Left Behind
The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises
There are diverse sources of credit for micro and small manufacturing enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries, ranging from relatives and friends, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), micro finance institutions, and commercial banks. Using a unique set of data on MSEs in garment clusters in Nairobi, this study attempts to identify the determinants of access to different credit sources and their impacts on firm profitability and g…
Aid and Poverty Alleviation
Summaries This article evaluates the poverty alleviation effect of international aid provided by Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Development Assistance Committee members, and multilateral organizations. A consistent poverty evaluation framework together with head count ratio data comparable across countries is employed. Results indicate that aid expansion by the government of Japan is relatively inefficient and ineffective in te…
Aid and Poverty Alleviation
Summaries This article evaluates the poverty alleviation effect of international aid provided by Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Development Assistance Committee members, and multilateral organizations. A consistent poverty evaluation framework together with head count ratio data comparable across countries is employed. Results indicate that aid expansion by the government of Japan is relatively inefficient and ineffective in te…
The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises
There are diverse sources of credit for micro and small manufacturing enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries, ranging from relatives and friends, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), micro finance institutions, and commercial banks. Using a unique set of data on MSEs in garment clusters in Nairobi, this study attempts to identify the determinants of access to different credit sources and their impacts on firm profitability and g…
The Changing Determinants of Schooling Investments
This paper aims to explore the changing determinants of child progress through school over the last two decades using unique long-term household-panel data from four villages in the Philippines. In a regime of low income in the late 1980s, income from farming is the most important source of funds to finance child schooling. As households shift away from farm to non-farm activities and their children pursue higher education, non-farm income and re…
Did Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers in Korea During the Financial Crisis
How effective are public transfers in protecting households facing financial crisis-induced negative shocks? Existing studies have not yet carefully considered the inter-relationship between public transfers and the existing private transfer network. In the context of the financial crisis in Korea, this paper investigates the possible crowding-out effect of public transfers on private transfers by explicitly considering the endogenous responses o…
Those Who are Left Behind
Transformation of the Rural Economy in the Philippines, 1988–2006
This research explores the changing structure of the rural economy in the Philippines from 1988 to 2006. We found that the expansion and upgrade of infrastructure such as electricity and roads and investment in secondary and tertiary education are important factors that induced the economic transformation of the rural economy. The importance of higher education as an entry requirement to the nonfarm labor market has declined over time, indicating…
Why is Absenteeism Low among Public Health Workers in Lao PDR
Absenteeism among public health workers is common in developing countries. Absence rates among public health workers are above 25 per cent in the five developing countries that Chaudhury et al. (N. Chaudhury, J. Hammer, M. Kremer, K. Muralidharan, and F.H. Rogers (2006) Missing in action: Teacher and health worker absence in developing countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20, pp. 91–116) examined. However, the present study finds that the…
How Access to Irrigation Influences Poverty and Livelihoods
This study combines a livelihoods approach with a regression approach to quantify the effectiveness of irrigation infrastructure investment on improving people's livelihood strategies. Using a unique dataset based on households in southern Sri Lanka, and a natural experimental setting, we estimate from a two-stage income regression model to show that irrigation access has a positive effect on income through livelihood choices. We also show throug…
Is trust really social capital? Commentary on Carpiano and Fitterer (2014)
Does Community Management Help Keep Children in Schools? Evidence Using Panel Data from El Salvador's Educo Program
This article investigates how community management of schools can affect educational outcomes as measured by retention rates. In our model, parents make decisions about whether or not their children should remain in school, and they monitor the performance of the teachers. We analyze a unique data set from El Salvador, which expanded the role of communities in school management through its Educación con Participación de la Comunidad (EDUCO) progr…
Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters
This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an optimum combination of community-level networks, private market mechanisms, and state-based assistance strategies. Its chapters describe best prac…
The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami
An Analysis of Suicides in Japan, 1997-2007
Tweeting celebrity suicides
A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages ("tweets") posted on Twitter that were related to 26 prominent figures in Japan who di…
Disasters, Insurance, and Preferences
Recently both developed and developing countries have experienced numerous serious disasters that can be subdivided into four major groups: natural, technological, economic crises, and violence-related disasters. These negatively affect not only the livelihoods of the survivors but also their preferences for risks and time delays. In preparation for or in the aftermath of a disaster, various indispensable market and nonmarket mechanisms are avail…
Short and Long Recall Errors in Retrospective Household Surveys
While recall errors in retrospective data from household surveys may generate estimation biases, the nature and the relative magnitude of the errors are still largely unknown, especially in the context of developing countries. To bridge this gap in the existing studies, we conduct a resurvey of respondents of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLS) 2006. The combined data set allows us to investigate a variety of short-term and long-…
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster
BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest that experience of natural disasters may heighten present bias. Research also suggests that impaired self-control (in particular, heightened present bias) could be linked to delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among survivors of natural disasters. We examined a hypothesis that the association between disaster experiences and delayed-onset PTSS is mediated through present bias among older surviv…
Fighting the Learning Crisis in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcomes|the cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of disadvantaged pupils|in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find substantial improvements in cognitive abilities measured by mathematics test scores and catch-up effects on aspects of non-cognitive abilities or personality tr…
Economics (14 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Economic growth (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Developing country (5 obras) · Development economics (5 obras)