Upcoming Talks

• JSQPS (Political Economy) – Jan 2026
• UC Riverside (Macro/International) – Jan 2026
• Columbia (Japan Economic Seminar) – Feb 2026
• Hitotsubashi (Trade/Spatial) - March 2026
• Chicago (Trade/Spatial) – May 2026

Trade / Macro-Labor

“Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? The Evolution of Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century”
[Paper PDF] [Slide PDF] [Bib]
Draft Updated: May 2025

“Granular Origins of Agglomeration”
[Paper PDF] [Online Appendix PDF] [Slide PDF] [Bib]
with Daniel G O’Connor
Submitted; Draft Updated: Oct. 2025

“Welfare Effects of Polarization: Occupational Mobility over the Life-cycle”
[Paper PDF] [Slide PDF] [Bib]
with Sagiri Kitao
Draft Updated: July 2020

“Balassa–Samuelson in the Long Run: Empirical Success, Quantitative Limits”
Draft to be available in Jan 2026

Political Economy

“Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right”
[Paper PDF] [Slide PDF] [VoxEU] [Bib]
with Oren Danieli, Noam Gidron, and Ro’ee Levy
Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy; Draft Updated: Feb. 2024

“Distrusting the Out-Party: Partisan Disbelief and Biased Information Processing”
[Paper PDF] [Slide PDF] [AEA RCT Registry] [Bib]
with Yuko Kasuya, Daiki Kishishita, and Yesola Kweon
Draft Updated: Dec. 2025

Japanese Labor Market

“Who Bears the Burden? Heterogeneous Labor Market Penalties of Child and Eldercare”
[Paper PDF] [Bib]
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Draft Updated: Dec 2025

“Trends in National and Local Market Concentration in Japan: 1980-2020”
[Paper PDF] [Bib]
Draft Updated: May 2025

“Automation and Offshoring on Wage Inequality in Japan”
[Paper PDF] [Bib]
Draft Updated: May 2025

“Automation and disappearing routine occupations in Japan”
[Paper PDF] [Published ver.] [Bib]
with Ippei Fujiwara and Toyoichiro Shirota
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 74, December 2024

“Who Suffers from the COVID-19 Shocks? Labor Market Heterogeneity and Welfare Consequences in Japan”
[Paper PDF] [Published ver.] [Bib]
with Sagiri Kitao and Minamo Mikoshiba
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 59, March 2021