Health economist. Professor at @UTokyoGraSPP/@SFUEcon. Columbia Ph.D. AE @AEAjournals: Econ Policy, @JHealthEcon 東京大学教授/サイモンフレーザー大学准教授。専門は応用ミクロ経済学。コロンビア大学経済博士。
Honored to receive the "Ishikawa Prize" from the Japan Economic Association, awarded to a Japanese economist under age 50 who has made significant contributions to policy-relevant issues in Japan. Thank all of you who are involved in this journey! https://t.co/1Xt7KDwu24
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution,” by Juhász (@juhreka13), Sakabe, and Weinstein (@deweinstein): https://t.co/nOdU36sriX
🎉 Arne Hole and I are delighted to share the programme for the 3rd Workshop on the Economics of #Health and #HumanCapital!
📍 Madrid, 18 June 2026
🏛️ @FundacionAreces
🎤 Keynote: @Gabri_EllaConti
Looking forward to a great day of research and discussion in Madrid!
And that’s a wrap on the Essen Health Conference 2026!
Huge congratulations to our Best Paper Award winners:
🥇 Hikaru Kawarazaki @h_kawarazaki@TheIFS for his paper, "The Rotten Apple: Peer Effects of Criminal Exposure in Schools"
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Recently accepted by #QJE: “Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association,” by Alsan and Neberai: https://t.co/9a1xXkLlKV
Authors can't be trusted to run their own robustness checks.
In 17 AER papers, only 12/211 robustness checks "fail" with p > 0.05 (white).
In robustness checks chosen by 3rd parties, almost *half* of them fail (blue).
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Our paper “Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide” is now published in the Journal of Economic Literature. It took us a while but we are happy!
We put together a lot of material to make the paper useful in practice: https://t.co/30TbAgihlz
Hope you like!
📢Our school at Waseda Univ. is hiring for open-rank positions in political science, open subfield. We welcome scholars at any career stage. Come join our dynamic, internationally oriented academic community in Tokyo. Deadline: September 4.
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