Our new paper quantifying the overall severeness of discrimination over 100 years! This is tough especially because the group membership (like race) usually has no random variation. Solution? A distinctive setting of buraku discrimination in Japan. (1/7)
Starting today, I am appointed as an associate professor at Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (
@IER_hit_u
). I also keep connected to Princeton as an affiliated scholar of Global Japan Lab (
@PrincetonGJL
). Looking forward to the new chapter in Tokyo!
ポピュリズムが国際的に伝播してしまう現象について理論的に分析した論文 "Contagion of Populist Extremism"がJournal of Public Economicsに採択されました!関心を持っていただけた方はぜひ私の共著者の東洋経済の記事、または私のHPの研究紹介をぜひご参照ください!
Excited to release our new paper, "History versus Expectations in the Spatial Economy: Lessons from Hiroshima." We ask why the a-bombed areas in Hiroshima could recover. We show that it was because people believed in the recovery, that is, the self-fulfilling expectations matter!
Our new paper quantifying the overall severeness of discrimination over 100 years! This is tough especially because the group membership (like race) usually has no random variation. Solution? A distinctive setting of buraku discrimination in Japan. (1/7)
(1) は、プリンストン大学の山岸敦さんによるご執筆「実験で解き明かす住宅市場に潜む人種差別」です!
紹介論文:
Christensen & Timmins (2022) "Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on
Neighborhood Choice" Journal of Political Economy.
Very happy to announce on my birthday that my paper "Minimum Wages and Housing Rents: Theory and Evidence" is accepted by RSUE!! Thanks for those giving me great comments and suggestions.
Extremely excited to announce that our paper "Contagion of Populist Extremism" is accepted by Journal of Public Economics!! Please visit for an earlier draft. Many thanks for those giving us great comments. Thanks also for my outstanding co-author Daiki.
Released a new paper with
@gt510244
! We investigate the spillover effect of public-sector wages using a Japanese quasi-experiment. We estimate that a 1% public-sector wage cut reduces private-sector wages by 0.3%.
My new short paper on learning in cities. Learning is an important aspect of agglomeration economies. Using novel survey data with detailed information on off-the-job learning, I present new facts on how learning behavior varies with population density.
@ats_yamagishi
さん、松本朋子さんとの共著"Overconfidence, Income-Ability Gap, and Preferences for Income Equality"をEuropean Journal of Political Economyに受理してもらいました。ほぼはじめてのサーベイ実験でしたが無事落ち着き先が見つかってよかったです!
My short paper documenting that those bullied at school tend to be supportive of redistribution later in life is forthcoming in Economics of Education Review !! 1/N
Any comments are highly appreciated. The link to the paper is the following:
I would like to thank
@ReddingEcon
for his invaluable advising, and my co-author
@kohei_takeda
for many years of collaboration for this project.
(One-tweet summary in Japanese.) 学校でいじめを受けた人は将来再分配政策を支持する傾向にあることを日本のサーベイデータを用いて示した短い論文がEconomics of Education Reviewという雑誌に採択されました。詳細は()の研究紹介と原論文をぜひご参照ください!
Why do people not support a larger government? Perhaps not feeling enough benefits from public goods... Our experiment says they might accept paying more taxes after realizing the benefits. Maybe a way to politically achieve more redistribution. Paper:
A nice article on the interplay of minimum wages and housing markets. My RSUE paper is also mentioned based on the interview with
@NextCityOrg
. Thanks for reaching out! (By the way it was my first media interview, I'm honored).
“The typical counter-argument ... is like, it might hit the local economy very badly ... and it’s bad for workers, but my findings suggest that even if I take into account all these potential side effects, minimum wage [increases] still benefit workers."
Completing this draft was impossible without the cooperation of Yasuhiro Sato (
@yas_sato_ut
) at U Tokyo. Although here I cannot thank everyone I ideally would, special thanks to Steve (
@ReddingEcon
) and Leah (
@leah_boustan
) for their numerous helpful comments. (7/7)
Kohei is such a talented, warm-hearted, and hard-working researcher in trade and spatial economics. If you check his homepage and JMP, you would see that he has an amazing set of research portfolio and skills. I can witness that as his friend and collaborator!
Unique and fascinating post-doc opportunity for social scientists working on contemporary Japan! 1.5 years in UTokyo and 1.5 years in Princeton, three years in total.
We then measure the land price discount of buraku areas in Kyoto city from 1912 to 2018 using spatial discontinuity design and new data. We find the 51-56% discount in 1912 and 12-18% discount
in 2018, suggesting severe and persistent discrimination. (4/7)
In buraku discrimination, one is more likely to experience discrimination if one lives in certain areas (buraku areas) in a city. Thus, in this context, residence (not innate appearance etc.) provides the variation in the group membership. (2/7)
Second, the buraku are quite homogeneous with the majority and there’s no formal discriminatory treatment since 1871. Seemingly favorable conditions, but severe and persistent discrimination. In other contexts, perhaps even more efforts are required to resolve it (6/7)
What does this imply for other contexts of discrimination? First, we overcome many of conceptual and empirical issues of measuring discrimination but still find severe and persistent discrimination. Maybe this is (unfortunately) what we expect in other settings. (5/7)
We incorporate this into a spatial equilibrium model like Rosen-Roback and show that the overall severeness of discrimination is capitalized into land prices. Intuition: discrimination is like a negative amenity of buraku areas. (3/7)
The bullying + redistribution paper is now published, which you can download from the following link (free access for 50 days!). I'm so surprised at how fast the publication was after acceptance..
@TradeDiversion
Thank you so much for this great initiative. Atsushi Yamagishi (Princeton) - The Economic Dynamics of City Structure: Evidence from Hiroshima's Recovery -
@arpitrage
Thank you so much! I haven't considered property taxes in the paper but I think you're right, it would enhance redistribution. The extreme Henry George case with 100% property taxes might be an interesting benchmark to think about this issue.
@greg_shill
@DenselySpeaking
The vibrancy of Hiroshima, despite such history, also impressed me when I first visited Hiroshima and that was indeed a big motivation of writing this paper. Thank you again and please keep an eye on future updates of the paper as well!