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Pollution and human capital accumulation in modern Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K13754
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 07070:Economic history-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Ogasawara Kota  東京工業大学, 工学院, 准教授 (00733544)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords人的資本 / 工業化 / 公害 / 人口動態 / 地域経済 / 構造変化
Outline of Research at the Start

工業化は、長期に亘る人的資本の蓄積を促し、各国経済の歴史的発展に大きく貢献してきた。しかし最近、歴史上の工業化が人的資本蓄積に与えたもう一つの側面、すなわち負の側面を定量的に再評価しようとする試みが始まっている。例えば英米の研究グループは、19世紀末の英国を対象として、工場等から排出された煤塵による大気汚染が、乳児死亡リスクに与えた影響を解明する研究を進めている。本研究では、1920年代から1930年代の日本を対象として、工業化の過程で生じる鉱毒(metal toxicity)が胎児や乳幼児の健康に与える潜在的影響を定量的に推定し、それら影響の発現条件などを解明する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Industrialization promotes the long-term accumulation of human capital and the historical development of each country's economy. In recent years, economic history studies have begun to quantitatively reassess the negative effects of industrialization on human capital accumulation. In this research project, I newly digitized the static and vital statistics and population census of Japan issued in the 1920s and 1930s. I proposed an identification strategy to evaluate the impacts of the resource extraction and estimated those of mines on local population growth and regional structural shifts.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

工業化の過程で発達する鉱業が地域経済に与える影響を明らかにすること。これは、実証経済学における研究課題としてだけでなく、現実の社会経済においても重要な課題である。このような課題にたいして、本研究から得られた成果は、鉱物資源採掘が地域経済の人口動態や産業構造の変化に与える影響について、一定の定量的証拠を提供するものである。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 8 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] London School of Economics/University College London(英国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] London School of Economics(英国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Consequences of war: Japan’s demographic transition and the marriage market2022

    • Author(s)
      Ogasawara Kota、Komura Mizuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Population Economics

      Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Pages: 1037-1069

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00148-021-00826-5

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The long-run heterogeneous effects of a cholera pandemic on stature: Evidence from industrializing Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Ogasawara Kota、Inoue Tatsuki
    • Journal Title

      Economics & Human Biology

      Volume: 41 Pages: 100968-100968

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100968

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Particulate air pollution, birth outcomes, and infant mortality: Evidence from Japan's automobile emission control law of 19922020

    • Author(s)
      Inoue Tatsuki、Nunokawa Nana、Kurisu Daisuke、Ogasawara Kota
    • Journal Title

      Social Science & Medicine - Population Health

      Volume: 11 Pages: 100590-100590

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100590

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Small area estimation with spatially varying natural exponential families2020

    • Author(s)
      Sugasawa, S., Kawakubo, Y. and Ogasawara, K.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

      Volume: 90 Issue: 6 Pages: 1039-1056

    • DOI

      10.1080/00949655.2020.1714048

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Chain effects of clean water: The Mills?Reincke phenomenon in early 20th-century Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Inoue Tatsuki、Ogasawara Kota
    • Journal Title

      Economics & Human Biology

      Volume: 36 Pages: 100822-100822

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ehb.2019.100822

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] NUTRITION, CROWDING, AND DISEASE AMONG LOW‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN TOKYO IN 19302020

    • Author(s)
      Ogasawara Kota、Gazeley Ian、Schneider Eric B.
    • Journal Title

      Australian Economic History Review

      Volume: 60 Issue: 1 Pages: 73-104

    • DOI

      10.1111/aehr.12189

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Early-life exposure to weather shocks and child height: Evidence from industrializing Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Ogasawara Kota、Yumitori Minami
    • Journal Title

      SSM - Population Health

      Volume: 7 Pages: 100317-100317

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.11.001

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's Great Kant? Earthquake of 19232019

    • Author(s)
      Hunter Janet、Ogasawara Kota
    • Journal Title

      The Economic History Review

      Volume: 72 Issue: 4 Pages: 1335-1362

    • DOI

      10.1111/ehr.12775

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Pandemic influenza and the gender imbalance: Evidence from early twentieth-century Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ogasawara
    • Organizer
      European Social Science History Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Health impacts of mineral mining: Industrial pollution in industrializing Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ogasawara
    • Organizer
      Social Science History Association Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Consumption smoothing in the working-class households of interwar Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ogasawara
    • Organizer
      The Economic History Society Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Consumption smoothing in the working-class households of interwar Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ogasawara
    • Organizer
      European Historical Economics Society 2019 Congress
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Persistence of natural disasters on child health: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 19232019

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ogasawara
    • Organizer
      The Economic History Society Annual Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize

    • URL

      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14678446/sir_timothy_coghlan_prize

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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