Developing microeconometric methods and evaluation of returns to education

• Project/Area Number: 18330040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic statistics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: ICHIMURA Hidehiko The University of Tokyo, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (50401196)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAWADA Yasuyuki 東京大学, 大学院・経済学研究科, 准教授 (40322078)
• Project Period (FY): 2006 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥16,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,610,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥5,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,320,000); Fiscal Year 2006: ¥5,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,500,000)
• Keywords: ミクロ計量経済学 / セミパラメトリック / 漸近理論 / 教育効果 / 義務教育 / ノンパラメトリック / 教育投資 / 義務教育無償化 / 計量経済 / ノンパラメトリクス / プログラム評価 / 教育の効果

Research Abstract

Four econometric methods useful to analyze individual level data are developed. An impact on labor market outcome of introducing public elementary schooling is evaluated using Japanese Meiji era introduction of free elementary schooling as a natural experiment.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Did the Financial Crisis in Japan Affect Household Welfare Seriously? (2010)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Kazumitsu Nawata, Masako Ii, Mark J. Lee
  • Journal Title: forthcoming (accepted), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
• [Journal Article] Precautionary Saving under Liquidity Constraints : Evidence from Rural Pakistan (2010)
  • Author(s): Jeong-loon Lee, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Journal of Development Economics 91(1) Pages: 77-86
• [Journal Article] ミクロ実証分析の進展と今後の展望 (2010)
  • Author(s): 市村英彦
  • Journal Title: 日本経済学会75年史(第8章、有斐閣 (日本経済学会編))
• [Journal Article] Aggregate Returns to Social Capital : Estimates Based on the Augmented Augmented-Solow Model (2009)
  • Author(s): Hirokazu Ishise, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Journal of Macroeconomics 31 Pages: 376-393
• [Journal Article] Obstacles to School Progression in Rural Pakistan : An Analysis of Gender and Sibling Rivalry Using Field Survey Data (2009)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Michael Lokshin
  • Journal Title: Journal of Development Economics 88(2) Pages: 335-347
• [Journal Article] How Is Suicide Different in Japan? (2009)
  • Author(s): Chen, Joe, Yun Jeong Choi, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Japan and the World Economy 21(2) Pages: 140-150
• [Journal Article] Immiserizing Growth : An Empirical Evaluation (2009)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Applied Economics 41(13) Pages: 1613-1620
• [Journal Article] Those Who Are Left Behind : An Estimate of the Number of Family Members of Suicide Victims in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): Joe Chen, Yun Jeong Choi, Kohta Mori, Yasuyuki Sawada, Saki Sugano
  • Journal Title: Social Indicators Research 94(3) Pages: 535-544
• [Journal Article] The Changing Determinants of Schooling Investments and Overseas Migration : Evidence from Villages in the Philippines (2009)
  • Author(s): Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka
  • Journal Title: Journal of Development Studies 45(3) Pages: 391-411
• [Journal Article] 経済問題・金融危機と自殺の関係について (2009)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸・菅野早紀
  • Journal Title: 精神科 第15巻・第4号
• [Journal Article] 開発援助と貧困削減-東アジアの文脈から- (2009)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Journal Title: フィナンシャルeレビュー 平成年第一号(通巻第93号)
• [Journal Article] Poverty and Income Dynamics in Philippine Villages (2008)
  • Author(s): Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka
  • Journal Title: Review of Development Economics 12(4) Pages: 877-890
• [Journal Article] How Do People Cope With Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Satoshi Shimizutani
  • Journal Title: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 40(2-3) Pages: 463-488
• [Journal Article] Credit Crunch and Household Welfare : The Case of the Korean Financial Crisis (2008)
  • Author(s): Kang Sung Jin, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Japanese Economic Review 59(4) Pages: 438-458
• [Journal Article] Implementing Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimators, in Handbook of Econometrics (2007)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura, Petra Todd
  • Journal Title: E.E.Learner and J.J.Heckman, eds., Amsterdam : Elsevier Vol. 6B Pages: 5369-5468
• [Journal Article] Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds (2007)
  • Author(s): Richard Blundell, Amanda Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura, Costas Meghir
  • Journal Title: Econometrica 75 Pages: 323-363
• [Journal Article] The Impact of Natural and Manmade Disasters on Household Welfare (2007)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Agricultural Economics 37(s1) Pages: 59-73
  • NAID: 110005232196
• [Journal Article] The Degree of Precautionary Saving : Re-examination (2007)
  • Author(s): Jeong-Joon Lee, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Economics Letters 96(2) Pages: 196-201
• [Journal Article] Consumption Insurance against Natural Disasters : Evidence from the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake (2007)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Satoshi Shimizutani
  • Journal Title: Applied Economics Letters 14(4) Pages: 303-306
• [Journal Article] アジア通貨危機と貧困問題-危機後の10年を振り返って- (2007)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Journal Title: 国際問題 No. 563
• [Journal Article] Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds (2007)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Journal Title: Econometrica (共著B.V. R. Blundell, A. Gosling, and C. Meghir ) vol.75 Pages: 323-363
• [Journal Article] 『Handbook of Econometrics』 Volume6B Part19 Chapter74 (2007)
  • Author(s): E. Leamer, J. J. Heckman
  • Journal Title: Implementing Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimators (Hidehiko Ichimura, P. Todd) Pages: 5369-5468
• [Journal Article] Implementing Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimators (2007)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura, 共著 P. Todd
  • Journal Title: Handbook of Econometrics 6B Pages: 5369-5468
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds (2007)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura, 共著 B. V. R. Blundell, A. Gosling, C. Meghir
  • Journal Title: Econometrica 75 Pages: 323-363
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] What really happened to consumption inequality in the US? (2006)
  • Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Journal Title: in Measurement Issues in Economics-The Paths Ahead : Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches, E.Berndt and C.Hulten (eds.)
• [Journal Article] On the Mother and Child Labor Nexus under Credit Constraints : Findings from Rural India (2006)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Kensuke Kubo, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Seiro Ito, Takashi Kurosaki
  • Journal Title: Developing Economies 64(4) Pages: 465-499
• [Journal Article] Exchange Rate Misalignment : A New Test of Long-Run PPP Based on Cross-Country Data (2006)
  • Author(s): Pan A. Yotopoulos, Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Journal Title: Applied Financial Economics 16 Pages: 127-134
• [Journal Article] The Green Revolution, development of labor markets, and poverty reduction in the rural Philippines (2006)
  • Author(s): Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka
  • Journal Title: Agricultural Economics 35(s3) Pages: 399-407
• [Journal Article] The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises : The Case of Garment Producers in Kenya (2006)
  • Author(s): John Akoten, Yasuyuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka
  • Journal Title: Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(4) Pages: 927-944
• [Journal Article] インド農村部における児童労働・就学と家計内資源配分 (2006)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Journal Title: 経済研究 57(4) Pages: 328-343
  • NAID: 120003802894
• [Journal Article] 貧困削減におけるインフラの役割-スリランカ・パキスタンにおけるJBIC灌概事業のインパクト評価- (2006)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Journal Title: 国際金融研究所報 32号
• [Journal Article] (forthcoming) "Characterization of the Asymptotic Distribution of Semiparametric M-Estimators"
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura, Sokbae Lee
  • Journal Title: Journal of Econometrics
• [Journal Article] On the Role of Technical Cooperation in International Technology Transfers
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada, Ayako Matsuda, Hidemi Kimura
  • Journal Title: forthcoming, Journal of International Development.
• [Journal Article] Characterization of the Asymptotic Distribution of Semiparametric M-Estimators
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura, Sokbae Lee
  • Journal Title: Joumal of Econometrics (掲載決定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The Economic Impact of Natural Disasters on Households : Evidence from Japan and Other Asian Countries (2010)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 28
  • Place of Presentation: Philadelphia
• [Presentation] How Do Households Cope With Natural and Human-Made Disasters? (2010)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: BUILDING RESILIENCE conference, March 25
  • Place of Presentation: Purdue University
• [Presentation] Understanding Aging in Japan : JSTAR Challenges and Initial Results (2009)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: Longevity : The New Risk Frontier
  • Place of Presentation: A Conference hosted by the Center for Silver Security at Singapore Management University
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-20
• [Presentation] Understanding Aging in Japan : JSTAR Challenges and Initial Results (2009)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: Longevity : The New Risk Frontier, A Conference hosted by the Center for Silver Security
  • Place of Presentation: Singapore Management University, Singapore
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-20
• [Presentation] ミクロ実証分析の進展と今後の展望 (2009)
  • Author(s): 市村英彦
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会2009年度秋季大会特別セッション
  • Place of Presentation: 専修大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-10-11
• [Presentation] Disability and Returns to Education : A Case Study from Nepal (2009)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会2009年度秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 専修大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-10-11
• [Presentation] ミクロ実証分析の進展と今後の展望 (2009)
  • Author(s): 市村英彦
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会
  • Place of Presentation: 専修大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-10-11
• [Presentation] 自然災害・人的災害と家計行動 (2009)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会2009年度秋季大会特別報告
  • Place of Presentation: 専修大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-10-10
• [Presentation] Natural Shocks, Household & Firm Behavior and Policy Responses (2009)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) ABCDE 2009
  • Place of Presentation: Korea
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-23
• [Presentation] Consumption Insurance against Unforeseen Epidemics : The Case of Avian Influenza in Vietnam (2009)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会2009年度春季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-06
• [Presentation] Nonparametric Intermediate Order Regression Quantiles (2009)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: Cemmap/ESRC Econometric Study Group Workshop on Quantile Regression
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-01
• [Presentation] Identification and Estimation of Nonparametric Transformation Model (2009)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: BIRS Workshop 09w5032 at Banff : Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods in Econometrics
  • Year and Date: 2009-04-09
• [Presentation] Identification and Estimation of Nonparametric Transformation Model (2009)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: BIRS Workshop 09w5032 at Banff. Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods in Econometrics
  • Place of Presentation: Banff International Research Station,バンフ,カナダ
  • Year and Date: 2009-04-09
• [Presentation] Finance Seminars (2009)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Essex Business School
  • Place of Presentation: University of Essex
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-04
• [Presentation] CSAE Seminar (2009)
  • Author(s): Yasusyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: University of Oxford
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-03
• [Presentation] How to Account For the Dependence Structure For the Kernel Density Estimator? (2009)
  • Author(s): HIDEHIKO ICHIMURA(共同発表YOICHI ARAI)
  • Organizer: American Economic Association ASSA 2009 Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: ナンフランシスコCA, USA
  • Year and Date: 2009-01-05
• [Presentation] How to Account For the Dependence Structure For the Kernel Density Estimator? (2009)
  • Author(s): HIDEHIKO ICHIMURA (共同発表YOICHI ARAI)
  • Organizer: American Economic Association ASSA 2009 Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: サンフランシスコCA、USA
• [Presentation] Econometrics/Applied Economics Workshop (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: University of Western Ontario
  • Year and Date: 2008-11-11
• [Presentation] パネル討論II : 日本のODAと経済学の役割 (2008)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学秋期大会
  • Place of Presentation: 近畿大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-14
• [Presentation] Suicide and Life Insurancec (2008)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会春期大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東北大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-05-31
• [Presentation] Birnkrant Development Seminar and Dynamics Seminar (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Department of Economics
  • Place of Presentation: University of Southern California
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-25
• [Presentation] Lunch seminar on the Japanese Economy at the Maison (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Franco-Japonaise
  • Year and Date: 2008-02-26
• [Presentation] Workshop on Macro Risks and Micro Responses (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Europe and Central Asia (ECA), World Bank
  • Place of Presentation: Washington DC.
  • Year and Date: 2008-02-15
• [Presentation] The Nineth Annual Global Development Conference Global Development Network (2008)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: Brisbane
  • Place of Presentation: Australia
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-28
• [Presentation] Program Evaluation with Continuous Treatment under Monotonicity Restriction (2008)
  • Author(s): Hidehiko Ichimura
  • Organizer: Econometric Society Winter Meeting
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-06
• [Presentation] Program Evaluation with Continuous Treatment under Monotonicity Restriction (2008)
  • Author(s): HIDEHIKO ICHIMURA, 共同発表YOICHI ARAI
  • Organizer: American Economic Association ASSA 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: ニューオリンズUSA
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-06
• [Presentation] Program Evaluation with Continuous Treatment under Monotonicity Restriction (2008)
  • Author(s): HIDEHIKO ICHIMURA (共同発表 YOICHI ARAI )
  • Organizer: American Economic Association ASSA 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: ニューオリンズ
• [Presentation] On the Role of Technical Cooperation in International Technological Transfers (2007)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会秋期大会
  • Place of Presentation: 日本大学
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-24
• [Presentation] Risk Sharing against an Earthquake : A Case of Village Yamakoshi (2007)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会春季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-02
• [Presentation] Precautionary Saving under Liquidity Constraints : Evidence from Rural Pakistan (2006)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪市立大学
  • Year and Date: 2006-10-22
• [Presentation] The Impact of Natural and Manmade Disasters on Household Welfare (2006)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: 26th conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in Australia, plenary session
  • Year and Date: 2006-08-13
• [Presentation] Is Aid Allocation Consistent with Global Poverty Reduction? A Cross-Donor Comparison (2006)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: presented at the UNU-WIDER conference on Aid : Principles, Policies and Performance
  • Place of Presentation: Helsinki, Finland
  • Year and Date: 2006-06-17
• [Presentation] On the Role of Infrastructure in Reducing Chronic and Transient Poverty : The Case of JBIC Supported Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka (2006)
  • Author(s): Yasuyuki Sawada
  • Organizer: presented at Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) conference Tokyo
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2006-05-30
• [Presentation] On the Role of Social Capital in Economic Growth : Estimates Based on the Augmented Augmented-Solow Model
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 福島大学
• [Book] Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa (2009)
  • Author(s): Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuvuki Sawada, eds.
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Book] 現代経済学の潮流2009 (2009)
  • Author(s): 池田新介, 市村英彦, 伊藤秀史, 共編
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社
• [Book] 現代経済学の潮流2009 (2009)
  • Author(s): 池田新介・市村英彦・伊藤秀史
  • Total Pages: 263
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社
• [Book] 現代経済学の潮流2008 (2008)
  • Author(s): 浅子和美, 池田新介, 市村英彦, 伊藤秀史, 共編
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社
• [Book] 現代経済学の潮流2007 (2007)
  • Author(s): 市村英彦, 伊藤秀史, 小川和夫, 二神孝一, 共編
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社
• [Book] Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States? (Hidehiko Ichimura) (Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin) (2007)
  • Author(s): Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press
• [Book] 「Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services」中の論文"What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States?"Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Hidehiko Ichimura共著 (2007)
  • Author(s): Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten 編著
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press
• [Book] 市場と経済発展 (2006)
  • Author(s): 澤田康幸, 園部哲史, 共編
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社