Hitoshi Shigeoka
@hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social
Health economist. Professor at @UTokyoGraSPP/@SFUEcon. Columbia Ph.D. Board of Editors @AEAjournals: Econ Policy, Associate Editor @JHealthEcon
https://sites.google.com/view/hshigeoka/home?pli=1
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social show evidence from 22M students in Japan that heat harms learning far more for low-performing (and lower-SES) students, widening inequality.
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Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social show evidence from 22M students in Japan that heat harms learning far more for low-performing (and lower-SES) students, widening inequality.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social show evidence from 22M students in Japan that heat harms learning far more for low-performing (and lower-SES) students, widening inequality.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social show evidence from 22M students in Japan that heat harms learning far more for low-performing (and lower-SES) students, widening inequality.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
My first day at the National University of Singapore went smoothly. I will be here until September 28th (including the seminar on September 11th). @NUSingapore
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September 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My first day at the National University of Singapore went smoothly. I will be here until September 28th (including the seminar on September 11th). @NUSingapore
fass.nus.edu.sg/ecs/seminar-...
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Heading to Seoul for World Congress! Actually KERI at Seoul National (pre-conference), World Congress, post-conference at Korea University for 9 days. See you my friends!
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Heading to Seoul for World Congress! Actually KERI at Seoul National (pre-conference), World Congress, post-conference at Korea University for 9 days. See you my friends!
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Evidence from hypothetical discrete choice experiments suggests that self-image motives are at most 19.3 percent as important as social-image motives, from Nicolas L. Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social, and Katsunori Yamada https://www.nber.org/papers/w34094
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Evidence from hypothetical discrete choice experiments suggests that self-image motives are at most 19.3 percent as important as social-image motives, from Nicolas L. Bottan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social, and Katsunori Yamada https://www.nber.org/papers/w34094
Flying to Boston to attend NBER SI! See you my friends. Such a long flight ahead…
July 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Flying to Boston to attend NBER SI! See you my friends. Such a long flight ahead…
Heading to Vancouver (Mon-Wed) and Toronto (Thr-Sun) to attend the Labor World Congress. See you soon, friends!
June 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Heading to Vancouver (Mon-Wed) and Toronto (Thr-Sun) to attend the Labor World Congress. See you soon, friends!
We are thrilled to finally see our paper "AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers" in print in Management Science (with Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Yasutora Watanabe). Below is the press release from the University of Tokyo! x.com/UTokyo_News_...
UTokyo | 東京大学 on X: "AI impacts industries in different ways. A study looking at taxi drivers in Japan, shows AI demand forecasting improves productivity in less-experienced drivers, helping close the skill gaps. #UTokyoResearch https://t.co/ZKjGOOxCo0 https://t.co/3QIOokg2VA" / X
AI impacts industries in different ways. A study looking at taxi drivers in Japan, shows AI demand forecasting improves productivity in less-experienced drivers, helping close the skill gaps. #UTokyoResearch https://t.co/ZKjGOOxCo0 https://t.co/3QIOokg2VA
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June 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We are thrilled to finally see our paper "AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers" in print in Management Science (with Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Yasutora Watanabe). Below is the press release from the University of Tokyo! x.com/UTokyo_News_...
I had a wonderful time! It was a really nice size for a conference, and I got to know everybody!
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May 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I had a wonderful time! It was a really nice size for a conference, and I got to know everybody!
conference.iza.org/IZA_Climate_...
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Heading from Tokyo to Bonn to attend IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics!
May 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Heading from Tokyo to Bonn to attend IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics!
“Here we analysed over 35 million public Facebook posts with uniform resource locators shared between 2017 and 2020, and discovered that such ‘shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour
Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...
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January 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“Here we analysed over 35 million public Facebook posts with uniform resource locators shared between 2017 and 2020, and discovered that such ‘shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
January 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
Reposted by Hitoshi Shigeoka
Join us tomorrow for the:
🚬🍻3rd Workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior #HERB🌿
🗓️January 23-24 2025
🗺️Seminar Room, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna.
Talks on #Vaccines, #OrganDonation, #Prostitution, #DomesticViolence, #SocialMedia, #Stigma and more
eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
🚬🍻3rd Workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior #HERB🌿
🗓️January 23-24 2025
🗺️Seminar Room, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna.
Talks on #Vaccines, #OrganDonation, #Prostitution, #DomesticViolence, #SocialMedia, #Stigma and more
eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
January 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Join us tomorrow for the:
🚬🍻3rd Workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior #HERB🌿
🗓️January 23-24 2025
🗺️Seminar Room, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna.
Talks on #Vaccines, #OrganDonation, #Prostitution, #DomesticViolence, #SocialMedia, #Stigma and more
eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
🚬🍻3rd Workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior #HERB🌿
🗓️January 23-24 2025
🗺️Seminar Room, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna.
Talks on #Vaccines, #OrganDonation, #Prostitution, #DomesticViolence, #SocialMedia, #Stigma and more
eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb
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Introducing the esteemed keynote speakers of the Essen Health Conference 2025 - Farzana Afridi, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Uwe Sunde
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Introducing the esteemed keynote speakers of the Essen Health Conference 2025 - Farzana Afridi, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Uwe Sunde