Publications by the SIHS researchers in 2019
List of Publications as of March, 2020.
* Authors underlined are researchers at the Sophia Institute for Human Security.
● Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi, and Keijiro Otsuka. “Mechanization in Land Preparation
and Agricultural Intensification: The Case of Rice Farming in the Cote d’Ivoire.” accepted
at Agricultural Economics.
● Yuma Noritomo, and Kazushi Takahashi. “Can Insurance Payouts Prevent a Poverty Trap?
Evidence from Randomized Experiments in Northern Kenya.” forthcoming in Journal
of Development Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1736281.
● Masamitsu Kurata, Kazushi Takahashi, and Akira Hibiki. (2020). “Gender Differences in
Associations of Household and Ambient Air Pollution with Child Health: Evidence
from Household and Satellite-based Data in Bangladesh.” World Development, 128:
MS#104779, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104779.
● Kazushi Takahashi, Rie Muraoka, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2020). “Technology Adoption, Impact,
and Extension in Developing Countries’ Agriculture: A Review of the Recent Literature.”
Agricultural Economics, 51(1): pp.31-45, DOI: 10.1111/agec.12539.
● Yuya Kudo, Abu Shonchoy, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2019). “Short-term Impacts of Solar
Lanterns on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.” Journal of
Development Studies, 55(11): pp. 2329-2346, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1443207.
● Yuya Kudo, Abu Shonchoy, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2019). “Can Solar Lanterns Improve
Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.” World Bank
Economic Review, 33(2): pp.436-460, DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw073.
● Kazushi Takahashi, Yukichi Mano, and Keijiro Otsuka. (2019). “Learning from Experts and
Peer Farmers about Rice Production: Experimental Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire.”
World Development, 122: pp.157-169, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.004.
● Ayako Matsuda, Kazushi Takahashi, and Munenobu Ikegami. (2019). “Direct and Indirect
Impacts of Index-based Livestock Insurance in Southern Ethiopia.” Geneva Papers
on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 44: pp.481-502, DOI: 10.1057/s41288-019-00132-y.
● Kazushi Takahashi, Yuma Noritomo, Munenobu Ikegami, and Nathaniel D. Jensen. (2020)
“Understanding Pastoralists’ Dynamic Insurance Uptake Decisions: Evidence from
Four-year Panel Data in Ethiopia.” accepted at Food Policy.
● Yu Ri Kim. “Does Aid for Trade Diversify the Export Structure of Recipient Countries?”
The World Economy. 2019; 42: 2684– 2722, DOI: 10.1111/twec.12845.
● Walter Bossert, and Kohei Kamaga. (2020). “An axiomatization of the mixed utilitarian-maximin
social welfare ordering.” Economic Theory 69, 451-473, DOI: 10.1007/s00199-018-1168-y.
● Takuya Hasebe, “Endogenous switching regression model and treatment effects of count data
outcome,” Stata Journal, accepted.
● R. Mbau, E. Kabia , Ayako Honda, K. Hanson, E. Barasa. (2020). Examining purchasing
reforms towards universal health coverage by the National Hospital Insurance
Fund in Kenya. International Journal for Equity in Health 19 (1), DOI: 10.1186/s12939-019-1116-x.
● Ayako Honda, A. Obse. (2020). Payment arrangements for private healthcare purchasing
under publicly funded systems in low10.1007/s40258-019-00550-y.
● K. Hanson, E. Barasa, Ayako Honda, W. Panichkriangkrai, W. Patcharanarumol. (2019).
Strategic purchasing: the neglected health financing function for pursuing universal
health coverage in low-and middle-income countries: comment on “What’s needed to
develop strategic purchasing in healthare? Policy lessons from a realist review.”
International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 8 (8), DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2019.34.
● Ayako Honda, N. Krucien, M. Ryan, I. Diouf, M. Salla, M. Nagai, N. Fujita. (2019). For more
than money: willingness of health professionals to stay in remote Senegal. BMC Human
Resources for Health. 17 (28), DOI: 10.1186/s12960-019-0363-7.