Publications

October 1, 2024Articles/Chapters
Tomoko Matsumoto, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Kensuke Okada, Junko Kato "Generational differences in economic perceptions" Electoral Studies 91, 102830-102830 , October 2024
August 31, 2024Articles/Chapters
Tomohiro Hosoi "METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan's African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy" The Pacific Review 1-21, August 2024
July 11, 2024Articles/Chapters
Masaaki Higashijima (with Hisashi Kadoya and Yuki Yanai) "The Dynamics of Electoral Manipulation and Institutional Trust in Democracies: Election Timing, Blatant Fraud, and the Legitimacy of Governance." 2024. Public Opinion Quarterly, nfae022.
May 14, 2024Articles/Chapters
Masaaki Higashijima "Autocratization and Development," Aurel Croissant and Luca Tomini eds. 2024. Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. Chapter 25, pp.349-361, Routledge.
May 3, 2024Articles/Chapters
Ryuichi Tanaka (with Atsushi Inoue) "The Rank of Socioeconomic Status within Class and the Incidence of School Bullying and School Absence" Economics of Education Review (forthcoming).
May 3, 2024Articles/Chapters
Higashijima, Masaaki and Yujin Woo. 2024. "Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: Motivations behind Refugees and Host Governments." International Studies Quarterly. 68-2, sqae077.
April 18, 2024Articles/Chapters
Ryuichi Tanaka (with Hideo Akabayashi) "The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion" Education Economics
January 23, 2024Articles/Chapters
Hiroyuki Hoshiro, Bringing the National Interest to the Forefront of Foreign Aid Policy : The Case of Japan
November 25, 2023MISC
Ken Oshitani, Comment on Alasia Nuti, "Severe Injustice, Disruptive Protest, and the Right to Justification"
November 8, 2023Articles/Chapters
Hiroyuki Hoshiro, "Reconsidering Japan's War Reparations and Economic Re-Entry into Southeast Asia," Diplomacy & Statecraft, 34(4), 673-702.
October 26, 2023Articles/Chapters
Masaaki Higashijima, Hidekuni Washida, Varieties of Clientelism across Political Parties: New Measures of Patron-Client Relationships, European Political Science Review forthcoming 2023
September 22, 2023Articles/Chapters
Kenneth McElwain, Keisuke Kawata, Masaki Nakabayashi, Narrative premiums in policy persuasion, Political Psychology, September 22, 2023
September 18, 2023MISC
Ken Oshitani, Scanlon's Instrumental Theory of Rights Reconsidered. The 2nd IVR Japan International Conference, September 18, 2023
September 12, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-006 Suzumura consistency and minimal quasi-transitive extensions (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
September 12, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-005 Ex-post approaches to prioritarianism and sufficientarianism (Matthew D. Adler, Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
August 30, 2023Articles/Chapters
Masaaki Higashijima, Yujin Woo, Measuring National Refugee Policies: Recent Trends and Implications for Future Development, Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 29(2) 109-117 2023
August 17, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-004 Repugnance at the Limit (Susumu Cato, Ko Harada, Ken Oshitani)
August 3, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-003 Why Not Prospect Utilitarianism Instead of Sufficientarianism? A Formal Comparison in Terms of Continuity and Lifeboat Cases (Susumu Cato, Hun Chung)
July 18, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-002 Fair social quasi-orderings (Susumu Cato, Marc Fleurbaey)
June 13, 2023Articles/Chapters
Legitimation of earnings inequality between regular and non-regular workers: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and the United States
May 25, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-23-001 A simple impossibility theorem in population ethics (Susumu Cato, Ko Harada)
May 13, 2023MISC
Ryuichi Tanaka and Atsushi Inoue, "How Does STEM Collage Major of Teachers Affect the Academic Achievement of Their Students?" RIETI Column, May 13 (2022).
March 9, 2023Articles/Chapters
Kenneth MCELWAIN "Public Preference for International Law Compliance: Respecting Legal Obligations or Conforming to Common Practices?" Review of International Organizations (with Saki Kuzushima and Yuki Shiraito)
February 17, 2023Discussion Papers​
E-22-006 Sustained social mobility and the Kemeny rule (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
January 16, 2023Articles/Chapters
Tanaka, Wataru, and Masaki Iwasaki, Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in How Institutional Investors Perceive Corporate and Securities Regulations, European Business Organization Law Review (Online) 24(3) 507-554
December 16, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-22-005 Independent, neutral, and monotonic collective choice: The role of Suzumura consistency (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
November 19, 2022MISC
Kenneth MCELWAIN "The Effects of COVID-19 on Constitutionalism and Voting Behavior" 2022 Annual Meeting of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan
November 14, 2022MISC
Kenneth MCELWAIN "Has Politics Gone Post-COVID?" Symposium: The Politics of the Kishida Cabinet in the Post-Abe Era (University British Columbia-University of Toronto-University of Tokyo)
October 11, 2022Articles/Chapters
"Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area" (with Masato Oikawa, Shun-ichiro Bessho, and Haruko Noguchi), American Journal of Health Economics, vol. 8(4), pa
September 20, 2022MISC
"La sfida demografica del Giappone e il suo impatto sull'economia: Lezioni per l'Italia (Japan's Demographic Challenge and its Impact on the Economy: Lessons from and for Italy, in Italian)", Sebastiano Maffettone and Marco Valerio Lo Prete (ed.), Italia
August 16, 2022Articles/Chapters
Ryuichi Tanaka (with Atsushi Inoue) "Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects" Education Economics.
August 1, 2022Articles/Chapters
Shoji, M., Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., Ito, A., Katsumata, H., and McElwain, K. M. (2022) "Mobile Health Technology as a Solution to Self-Control Problems: The Behavioral Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in Japan," Social Science and Medicine,
July 11, 2022MISC
Ryuichi Tanaka, "Book Review: Nihon no safety net no kakusa - roudou sijyo no henyo to syakai hosho (Inequality in safety net of Japan - The transformation of labor market and social security)" Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer,
July 6, 2022Articles/Chapters
Hiroyuki Hoshiro, Time pressures under international crises reconsidered: Integrating real and experimental time Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
June 14, 2022Articles/Chapters
Shoji, M., Ito, A., Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., and McElwain, K. M. (2022) "Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 6, 235-258
June 14, 2022Articles/Chapters
Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., Ito, A., Katsumata, H., McElwain, K. M., and Shoji, M. (2022) "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic," Public Health in Practice, 3, 100225.
June 10, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-22-004 Multi-species population ethics with critical levels (Susumu Cato, Shu Ishida)
May 19, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-22-003 Infection control, personal estimations, and the ethics of testing during COVID-19 pandemic (Susumu Cato, Shu Ishida)
May 13, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-22-002 Strategic crackdown on organized crime by local governments (Susumu Cato, Ken Yahagi)
May 13, 2022MISC
Atsushi Inoue and Ryuichi Tanaka, "How Does STEM Collage Major of Teachers Affect the Academic Achievement of Their Students?" RIETI Column, May 13 (2022).
May 9, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-22-001 Are good leaders truly good?(Susumu Cato, Akira Inoue)
March 25, 2022Articles/Chapters
Aida, T., and Shoji, M. (2022) "Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of National Governance in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination," BMC Public Health, 22, 576.
March 1, 2022Articles/Chapters
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas and Ryuichi Tanaka, "Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan", Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 20(1), pages 15-36, March (2022).
February 27, 2022Articles/Chapters
Cato, S., & Inoue, A. (2022). Libertarian approaches to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Bioethics.
February 26, 2022Articles/Chapters
Cato, S. Stable preference aggregation with infinite population. Social Choice and Welfare (2022)
February 24, 2022Articles/Chapters
The impact of COVID-19 on the psychological distress of youths in Japan: A latent growth curve analysis Sho Fujihara and Takahiro Tabuchi, Journal of Affective Disorders
February 15, 2022Discussion Papers​
E-21-008 Law Enforcement with Compensation Statutes for Legal Error (Ken Yahagi)
February 3, 2022Articles/Chapters
Ken Yahagi, Regulation on Coexisting Legal and Illegal Markets with Quality Differentiation, European Journal of Law and Economics
January 6, 2022Articles/Chapters
Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji. 2022. "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic". Public Health in Practice, Volume 3 (June)
November 29, 2021Articles/Chapters
Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji. 2021. "Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan". Economics of Disasters and Climate Change.
November 21, 2021Articles/Chapters
Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K,, Ito, A., Katsumata, H., McElwain, K. M, Shoji, M. (2021). "Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty". Global health action, 14(1)
September 27, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-007 Revisiting variable-value population principles (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
August 13, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-006 Do class size reductions protect students from infectious diseases? Lessons for COVID-19 policy from a flu epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area(Masato Oikawa, Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Haruko Noguchi)
July 31, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-005 Time pressures during international crises reconsidered:Integrating real and experimental time(Hiroyuki Hoshiro)
June 8, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-004 COVID-19 and Social Distancing in the Absence of Legal Enforcement: Survey Evidence from Japan (Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Kenneth Mori McElwain)
June 8, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-003 Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Survey Evidence from Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh (Masahiro Shoji, Kenmei Tsubota)
June 8, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-002 Thresholds, Critical Levels, and Generalized Sufficientarian Principles (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
June 8, 2021Discussion Papers​
E-21-001 Generalized Poverty-Gap Orderings (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)