Shin Kikuchi

Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, GPS

PhD in Economics at MIT

Fields: Trade, Macro/Labor, Political Economy

shkikuchi@ucsd.edu

CV


Working Papers

“Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? The Evolution of Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century”
[Paper PDF]

Draft Updated: May 2025

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

“Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right” [Paper PDF] [Slide PDF]
with Oren Danieli, Noam Gidron, and Ro’ee Levy
VOXEU
Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy

“Partisan Disbelief in Polarized Societies: Evidence from South Korea and the US” [Paper PDF]
with Yuko Kasuya, Daiki Kishishita, and Yesola Kweon
AEA RCT Registry
Draft Updated: Oct. 2025

“Balassa-Samuelson in the Long-Run”
with Ippei Fujiwara
Draft Available Very Soon!

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

Empirical Papers on Japanese Labor Market

“Who Bears the Burden? Heterogeneous Labor Market Penalties of Child and Eldercare” [Paper PDF]

“Trends in National and Local Market Concentration in Japan: 1980-2020” [Paper PDF]

“Automation and Offshoring on Wage Inequality in Japan” [Paper PDF]

“Automation and the Disappearance of Routine Work in Japan” [Paper PDF]
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] with Sagiri Kitao and Minamo Mikoshiba
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 59, March 2021