YAMANO, Takashi

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  • Position:
    Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D., (Economics & Agricultural Economics), Michigan State University
  • Specialty:
    Development Economics
• Current Research Interests:
  Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Professional Career:
  

  2000-2001:	Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Agricultural Economics Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  2001-2002:	Consultant The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
  2002-2007:	Assistant Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), and Research Fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID)
  2007-2008:	Associate Professor at GRIPS and Research Fellow at FASID
  2008-present:	Professor at GRIPS and Professorial Fellow at FASID

• Selected publications:
  Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa: Markets, Soil, and Innovations. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer, forthcoming in 2011 (edited with Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place).
  
  Yamano, T., and Y. Kijima (2010). “The Associations of Soil Fertility and Market Access with Household Income: Evidence from Rural Uganda,” Food Policy, 35 (1): 51-59.
  
  Muto, M., and T. Yamano (2009).  “The Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data Evidence from Uganda,” World Development, 37 (12): 1887-1896.
  
  Nishimura, M., T. Yamano, and Y. Sasaoka (2008).  “Impacts of the Universal Primary Education Policy on Education Attainment and Private Costs in Rural Uganda,” International Journal of Educational Development, 28: 161-175.
  
  Yamano, T. (2007).  “The Long-term Impacts of Orphanhood on Education Attainment and Land Inheritance among Adults in Rural Kenya,” Agricultural Economics, 37: 141-49:  Top 20 papers of the 2006 IAAE conference.
  
  Yamano, T., Y. Shimamura, and D. Sserunkuuma (2006).  “Living Arrangements and Schooling of Orphaned Children and Adolescents in Uganda,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54 (4): 833-856.
  
  Yamano, T., H. Alderman, and L. Christiaensen (2005).  “Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2): 91-119, received the 2005 AJAE Outstanding Article Award.
  
  Yamano, T., and T.S. Jayne (2005).  “Working-age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(3): 619-654.
  
  Yamano, T., and T.S. Jayne (2004).  “Measuring the Impacts of Working-age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya,” World Development, 32 (1): 91-119.
  
  Jayne, T.S., T. Yamano, and J. Nyoro (2004).  “Interlinked Credit and Farm Intensification: Evidence from Kenya,” Agricultural Economics, 31(2): 209-218:  Top 20 papers of the 2003 IAAE conference.
  
  Jayne, T.S., J. Strauss, T. Yamano, and D. Molla (2002).  “Targeting of Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia: Chronic Need or Inertia?” Journal of Development Economics, 68 (2): 247-288.
  
  Jayne, T.S., J. Strauss, T. Yamano, and D. Molla (2001).  “Giving to the Poor? Targeting of Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia,” World Development, 29 (5):887-910.
  
  
• Social contributions :
  

  1995	Rotary Scholarship
  2003	Top 20 Contributed Papers of the 2003 IAAE conference
  2006	Top 20 Contributed Papers of the 2006 IAAE conference
  2006	Outstanding Article Award of the 2005 American Journal of Agricultural Economics

• Takashi Yamano's personal website
• E-mail: yamanota