TAKAHASHI, Kazushi

Position	Director, GRIPS Global Governance Program (G-Cube); Director, State Building and Economic Development Program; Professor
Degree	Ph.D. in Development Economics (GRIPS)
Specialty	Development Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
Current Research Interests	Technology Diffusion, Microfinance, Poverty Dynamics

Professional Career

2019.4- Faculty Member, GRIPS
2015.9-2019.3 Faculty Member, Sophia University, Faculty of Economics
2010.8-2012.8 Visiting Fellow, Cornell University, The Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
2006.6-2015.9 Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO

Selected publications

Takahashi, Kazushi, Yuma Noritomo, Munenobu Ikegami, and Nathaniel D. Jensen. (2020). “Understanding Pastoralists’ Dynamic Insurance Uptake Decisions: Evidence from Four-year Panel Data in Ethiopia.” Food Policy, 95: MS#101910.

Noritomo, Yuma, and Kazushi Takahashi. (2020). “Can Insurance Payouts Prevent a Poverty Trap? Evidence from Randomized Experiments in Northern Kenya.” Journal of Development Studies, 56(11): 2079-2096.

Takahashi, Kazushi, 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.

Kudo, Yuya, 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.

Takahashi, Kazushi, 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.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Christopher B. Barrett, and Munenobu Ikegami. (2019). “Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(3): pp.672-691.

Arimoto, Yutaka, Hisaki Kono, Tsilavo Ralandison, Takeshi Sakurai, and Kazushi Takahashi (2019). “Price and Non-price Information Frictions in Regional Arbitrage: The Case of Rice Traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(2): pp.273-313.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Abu Shonchoy, Seiro Ito, and Takashi Kurosaki (2017). “How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh.” Journal of Development Studies, 53(4): pp.530-547.

Otsuka, Keijiro, Yuko Nakano, and Kazushi Takahashi (2016). “Contract Farming in Developed and Developing Countries.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 8: pp.353-376.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Munenobu Ikegami, Megan Sheahan, and Christopher B. Barrett (2016). “Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia.” World Development, 78: pp.324-340.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Christopher B. Barrett, and Munenobu Ikegami. (2019). “Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(3): pp.672-691.

Arimoto, Yutaka, Hisaki Kono, Tsilavo Ralandison, Takeshi Sakurai, and Kazushi Takahashi (2019). “Price and Non-price Information Frictions in Regional Arbitrage: The Case of Rice Traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(2): pp.273-313.

Otsuka, Keijiro, Yuko Nakano, and Kazushi Takahashi (2016). “Contract Farming in Developed and Developing Countries.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 8: pp.353-376.

Takahashi, Kazushi and Christopher B. Barrett (2014). “The System of Rice Intensification and its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 96(1):pp.269-289.

Takahashi, Kazushi, Takayuki Higashikata and Kazunari Tsukada (2010). “The Short-Term Poverty Impact of Small-Scale, Collateral-Free Microcredit in Indonesia: A Matching Estimator Approach.” Developing Economies, 48(1): pp.128-155.

Kono, Hisaki and Kazushi Takahashi (2010). “Microfinance Revolution: Its Effects, Innovations, and Challenges.” Developing Economies, 48(1): pp.15-73.

Takahashi, Kazushi and Keijiro Otsuka (2009). “The Increasing Importance of Nonfarm Income and the Changing Use of Labor and Capital in Rice Farming: The Case of Central Luzon, 1979-2003.” Agricultural Economics, 40(2): pp.231-242.