Takashi Kurosaki
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 358607 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Takashi Kurosaki |
| NOMBRES | Takashi |
| APELLIDO | Kurosaki |
| FIRMA | KUROSAKI T |
| AFILIACIONES | Hitotsubashi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9762-0067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Effects of the Covid-19 and natural agricultural shocks on preferences of farmers
It is imperative to examine how different negative shocks influence preferences because preferences influence micro level decisions that provide foundations for macro-level outcomes. We contribute to this domain by reporting an incentivized field experiment that examined the effects of agricultural income shocks driven by either the Covid-19 or other natural calamities on preferences (risk-taking, impatience, generosity and fairness) of Pakistani…
Online Communities of Practice as Agricultural information Platforms
Amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines the potential of Online Communities of Practises (OCoPs) for providing agricultural extension services. Using a unique dataset of 1,574 shrimp farmers, including members of one of Indonesia's largest public OCoP Facebook groups, we found that despite the pandemic, Indonesian farmers continue to rely primarily on their neighbours for farming information, utilising OCoPs only as a …
Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building
Does ethnoreligious diversity lead to higher or lower support for a central state? In this study, we propose that the relationship between diversity and state-making depends on the degree of intergroup contact between different ethnoreligious groups, which varies with locally fractionalized and regionally segregated societies. We hypothesize that high intergroup contact in fractionalized localities contributes to intergroup noncooperation that in…
Poverty and Agrarian Relations in Pre-War Japan
Consumer/Household Economics, Land Economics/Use, Community/Rural/Urban Development
Wartime service provision and post-conflict state legitimacy
Price and Non‐Price Factors in Development of Rice Cultivation
The high rice prices of 2023 have highlighted the need for increasing rice productivity. But improving productivity, especially in low‐performing rice‐producing regions, should also improve incomes for the numerous smallholder cultivators. This article examines what we can learn from the experience of high‐performing rice‐growing regions, which have both high rice yields and incomes. We focus on two best‐performing villages from Kerala, southern …
Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India
Gender quotas are intended to address the underrepresentation of women in government. However, their effectiveness remains controversial. This study explores the random assignment of gender quotas across villages in India, examining whether women members of local councils affect public goods allocation in their constituencies and identifying potential challenges they face when implementing policies. We conducted a field survey in 100 villages, ea…
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education
Although primary school enrollment in developing countries has rapidly increased since 1990, the quality of education has stagnated over the years. In teaching and learning practices, textbooks are an important intermediate that links curriculum, teachers, and students. Through a randomized controlled trial in El Salvador, this study evaluated the effect of a package of interventions including the distribution of textbooks that were carefully des…
A Community Health Worker–Based Intervention on Anthropometric Outcomes of Children Aged 3 to 21 Months in Urban Pakistan, 2019–2021
Objectives. To evaluate the impact of a community health worker–based “in-home growth monitoring with counseling” (IHGMC) intervention on anthropometric outcomes in Pakistan, where 38% of children younger than 5 years are stunted. Methods. We used an individual, single-blind, step-wedge randomized controlled trial and a pure control group recruited at endline. We based the analysis on an intention-to-treat estimation using the coarsened exact mat…
Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger
Differences in circulating fatty acid-binding protein 4 concentration in the venous and capillary blood immediately after acute exercise
Background Circulating fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4) is a marker for various diseases. It would be highly useful to have simple and less invasive techniques for the assessment of FABP4 concentrations in the clinical research setting. The purpose of the present study was to assess the concordance of circulating FABP4 concentrations in venous and capillary blood both at rest and immediately after acute exercise in healthy young males. Result…
Impact of contract farming on land productivity and income of maize and potato growers in Pakistan
How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh
This study examines the demand of microcredit among ultra-poor households in northern Bangladesh. We implemented a field experiment to identify what type of credit is best suited to their demand. We found that the uptake rate by the ultra-poor is the lowest for regular small cash credit, followed by in-kind credit. We also found that the ultra-poor are significantly more likely to join a microcredit programme than the moderately poor if a grace p…
Household-Level Recovery after Floods in a Tribal and Conflict-Ridden Society
A Note on the Reliability of Agricultural Wage Data in India
International Development, Labor and Human Capital, Research Methods/Statistical Methods
Spatial Characteristics of Long-Term Changes in Indian Agricultural Production
In this paper, we comprehensively describe spatial patterns of long-term changes in Indian agriculture at the district level. Variables of concern include the land use intensity, the ratio of rice and wheat in areas under foodgrains, the ratio of non-foodgrains in gross cultivated area, the fertilizer use intensity, and individual crop shares in gross cultivated areas. As a byproduct of the descriptive analysis, we propose a new regional classifi…
Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural Pakistan
Based on a pilot survey conducted in early 2011, in ten villages in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, we analysed the damage caused by floods in Pakistan in 2010, the distribution of aid, and the extent to which households recovered from flood damage. Our findings are as follows. Flood damage within a village was disuniform. Aid from outside was distributed to households that had suffered larger damage to their houses than others, but…
Crop choice, farm income, and political control in Myanmar
Myanmar's agricultural economy has been under transition from a planned to a market system since the late 1980s and has experienced a substantial increase in production. However, little research is available on the impact of economic policies in this country on agricultural production decisions and rural incomes. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact using a micro dataset collected in 2001 and covering more than 500 households in eight vi…
Consumption vulnerability to risk in rural Pakistan
As one of the dimensions of vulnerability, this paper empirically investigates the inability of rural dwellers to cope with negative income shocks. A variable coefficient regression model is applied to a two-period household panel dataset collected in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, an area with high incidence of income poverty and low human development. The empirical model allows for a different ability to smooth consumption, approxi…
The measurement of transient poverty
Insurance market efficiency and crop choices in Pakistan
Measurement of Functional Activities in Older Adults in the Community
Two measures of social function designed for community studies of normal aging and mild senile dementia were evaluated in 195 older adults who underwent neurological, cognitive, and affective assessment. An examining and a reviewing neurologist and a neurologically trained nurse independently rated each on a scale of functional capacity. Interrater reliability was high (examining Vs. reviewing neurologist, r = .97; examining neurologist Vs. Nurse…
Insurance market efficiency and crop choices in Pakistan
Impact of contract farming on land productivity and income of maize and potato growers in Pakistan
Household-Level Recovery after Floods in a Tribal and Conflict-Ridden Society
Crop choice, farm income, and political control in Myanmar
Myanmar's agricultural economy has been under transition from a planned to a market system since the late 1980s and has experienced a substantial increase in production. However, little research is available on the impact of economic policies in this country on agricultural production decisions and rural incomes. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact using a micro dataset collected in 2001 and covering more than 500 households in eight vi…
Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger
Measurement of Functional Activities in Older Adults in the Community
Two measures of social function designed for community studies of normal aging and mild senile dementia were evaluated in 195 older adults who underwent neurological, cognitive, and affective assessment. An examining and a reviewing neurologist and a neurologically trained nurse independently rated each on a scale of functional capacity. Interrater reliability was high (examining Vs. reviewing neurologist, r = .97; examining neurologist Vs. Nurse…
Insurance market efficiency and crop choices in Pakistan
Consumption vulnerability to risk in rural Pakistan
As one of the dimensions of vulnerability, this paper empirically investigates the inability of rural dwellers to cope with negative income shocks. A variable coefficient regression model is applied to a two-period household panel dataset collected in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, an area with high incidence of income poverty and low human development. The empirical model allows for a different ability to smooth consumption, approxi…
The measurement of transient poverty
Crop choice, farm income, and political control in Myanmar
Myanmar's agricultural economy has been under transition from a planned to a market system since the late 1980s and has experienced a substantial increase in production. However, little research is available on the impact of economic policies in this country on agricultural production decisions and rural incomes. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact using a micro dataset collected in 2001 and covering more than 500 households in eight vi…
Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural Pakistan
Based on a pilot survey conducted in early 2011, in ten villages in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, we analysed the damage caused by floods in Pakistan in 2010, the distribution of aid, and the extent to which households recovered from flood damage. Our findings are as follows. Flood damage within a village was disuniform. Aid from outside was distributed to households that had suffered larger damage to their houses than others, but…
Spatial Characteristics of Long-Term Changes in Indian Agricultural Production
In this paper, we comprehensively describe spatial patterns of long-term changes in Indian agriculture at the district level. Variables of concern include the land use intensity, the ratio of rice and wheat in areas under foodgrains, the ratio of non-foodgrains in gross cultivated area, the fertilizer use intensity, and individual crop shares in gross cultivated areas. As a byproduct of the descriptive analysis, we propose a new regional classifi…
A Note on the Reliability of Agricultural Wage Data in India
International Development, Labor and Human Capital, Research Methods/Statistical Methods
How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh
This study examines the demand of microcredit among ultra-poor households in northern Bangladesh. We implemented a field experiment to identify what type of credit is best suited to their demand. We found that the uptake rate by the ultra-poor is the lowest for regular small cash credit, followed by in-kind credit. We also found that the ultra-poor are significantly more likely to join a microcredit programme than the moderately poor if a grace p…
Household-Level Recovery after Floods in a Tribal and Conflict-Ridden Society
Impact of contract farming on land productivity and income of maize and potato growers in Pakistan
Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger
Differences in circulating fatty acid-binding protein 4 concentration in the venous and capillary blood immediately after acute exercise
Background Circulating fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4) is a marker for various diseases. It would be highly useful to have simple and less invasive techniques for the assessment of FABP4 concentrations in the clinical research setting. The purpose of the present study was to assess the concordance of circulating FABP4 concentrations in venous and capillary blood both at rest and immediately after acute exercise in healthy young males. Result…
A Community Health Worker–Based Intervention on Anthropometric Outcomes of Children Aged 3 to 21 Months in Urban Pakistan, 2019–2021
Objectives. To evaluate the impact of a community health worker–based “in-home growth monitoring with counseling” (IHGMC) intervention on anthropometric outcomes in Pakistan, where 38% of children younger than 5 years are stunted. Methods. We used an individual, single-blind, step-wedge randomized controlled trial and a pure control group recruited at endline. We based the analysis on an intention-to-treat estimation using the coarsened exact mat…
Poverty and Agrarian Relations in Pre-War Japan
Consumer/Household Economics, Land Economics/Use, Community/Rural/Urban Development
Wartime service provision and post-conflict state legitimacy
Price and Non‐Price Factors in Development of Rice Cultivation
The high rice prices of 2023 have highlighted the need for increasing rice productivity. But improving productivity, especially in low‐performing rice‐producing regions, should also improve incomes for the numerous smallholder cultivators. This article examines what we can learn from the experience of high‐performing rice‐growing regions, which have both high rice yields and incomes. We focus on two best‐performing villages from Kerala, southern …
Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India
Gender quotas are intended to address the underrepresentation of women in government. However, their effectiveness remains controversial. This study explores the random assignment of gender quotas across villages in India, examining whether women members of local councils affect public goods allocation in their constituencies and identifying potential challenges they face when implementing policies. We conducted a field survey in 100 villages, ea…
Developing Textbooks to Improve Math Learning in Primary Education
Although primary school enrollment in developing countries has rapidly increased since 1990, the quality of education has stagnated over the years. In teaching and learning practices, textbooks are an important intermediate that links curriculum, teachers, and students. Through a randomized controlled trial in El Salvador, this study evaluated the effect of a package of interventions including the distribution of textbooks that were carefully des…
Effects of the Covid-19 and natural agricultural shocks on preferences of farmers
It is imperative to examine how different negative shocks influence preferences because preferences influence micro level decisions that provide foundations for macro-level outcomes. We contribute to this domain by reporting an incentivized field experiment that examined the effects of agricultural income shocks driven by either the Covid-19 or other natural calamities on preferences (risk-taking, impatience, generosity and fairness) of Pakistani…
Online Communities of Practice as Agricultural information Platforms
Amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines the potential of Online Communities of Practises (OCoPs) for providing agricultural extension services. Using a unique dataset of 1,574 shrimp farmers, including members of one of Indonesia's largest public OCoP Facebook groups, we found that despite the pandemic, Indonesian farmers continue to rely primarily on their neighbours for farming information, utilising OCoPs only as a …
Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building
Does ethnoreligious diversity lead to higher or lower support for a central state? In this study, we propose that the relationship between diversity and state-making depends on the degree of intergroup contact between different ethnoreligious groups, which varies with locally fractionalized and regionally segregated societies. We hypothesize that high intergroup contact in fractionalized localities contributes to intergroup noncooperation that in…
Economics (16 obras) · Agricultural risk and resilience (9 obras) · Agriculture (9 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Agricultural economics (7 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)