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PUBLIC ECONOMICS SEMINAR
April 2016 – Febuary 2017
Activities Report
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This report is divided into 3 parts.
Part A reports all 9 public economic seminars during academic year 2016/17
Part B reports special joint economic workshops with University of Tokyo.
Part C reports the overall evaluation of the public economic seminar in this year and our look ahead for the next year.
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Part A. Public Economic Seminar Series 1. A General Equilibrium Approach to Decomposing the Wage Inequality - Speaker: Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Date: June 15, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5J - Total number of attendants: 20 (Students: 12, GRIPS faculty: 7. Guest: 1)
2. Will China Escape the Middle-Income Trap? A Politico-Economic Theory of Growth and State Capitalism - Speaker: Yikai Wang (University of Oslo) - Date: June 22, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 16:00 – 17:00 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5J - Total number of attendants: 20 (Students: 13, GRIPS faculty: 4, Guests: 3)
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3. Barriers to Reallocation and Economic Growth: the Effects of Firing Costs
- Speaker: Toshihiko Mukoyama (University of Virginia) - Date: June 22, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 17:10 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5J - Total number of attendants: 20 (Students: 13, GRIPS faculty: 4, Guests: 3)
4. Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry - Speaker: Benny Mantin (University of Waterloo) - Date: July 11, 2016 (Mon) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5J - Total number of attendants: 7 (Students: 4, GRIPS faculty: 3)
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5. Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals - Speaker: Liran Einav (Standford University) - Date: October 12, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5D - Total number of attendants: 19 (Students: 6, GRIPS faculty: 11. Guest: 2)
6. The Impact of Public Tax Returns Disclosure - Speaker: Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) - Date: October 17, 2016 (Mon) - Time: 17:00 – 18:30 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5D - Total number of attendants: 31 (Students: 17, GRIPS faculty: 6, Guests: 8)
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7. On Interest Rate Policy and Asset Bubbles - Speaker: Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) - Date: November 9, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5D - Total number of attendants: 7 (Students: 5, GRIPS faculty: 2)
8. The Impact of Rapid Aging and Pension Reform on Savings and Labour Supply: The Case of China - Speaker: Hui He (IMF and Shangai University of Finance and Economics) - Date: November 16, 2016 (Wed) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5D - Total number of attendants: 14 (Students: 6, GRIPS faculty: 7, Guests: 1)
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9. Getting Student Financing Right in the USA: Lessons from Australia and England - Speaker: i) Lorraine Dearden (University College London) and
ii) Bruce Chapman (Australian National University) - Date: February 22, 2017 (Wed) - Time: 16:40 – 18:10 - Venue: GRIPS 5th Floor, Room 5D - Total number of attendants: 17 (Students: 8, GRIPS faculty: 2. Guest: 7)
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Part B. Special joint workshop with University of Tokyo 1st GRIPS-University of Tokyo workshop
Date: 28 October 2016
Location: Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
Program
9:00 am Keynote
Sue Dynarski (University of Michigan) presented a working paper entitled "Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College Prep Curriculum in Michigan," with coauthors Brian Jacob (University of Michigan), Kenneth Frank (Michigan State University), and Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University). 10:30 am Presentation 1
Stephan Litschig (GRIPS) presented a paper entitled "Long-run Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers", with his coauthor Irineude Carvalho Filho (IMF). 11:20 pm Presentation 2
Ryuichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo) presented a paper entitled “Estimating Causal Effects of After-School Education Voucher on Children’s Outcomes and Behavior”, with Hideo Akabayashi (Keio Universtiy), and Hiroko Araki (Kindai University). 12:10 – 3:30 pm
Lunch and individual/group meetings List of participants
Stacey Chen (GRIPS),
Daiji Kawaguchi (University of Tokyo)
Hideo Owan (University of Tokyo)
Ayako Kondo (University of Tokyo)
Ryuichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo, GRIPS)
Hiroaki Mori (Hitotsubashi University)
Dainn Wie (GRIPS)
Stephan Litschig (GRIPS)
Hideo Akabayashi (Keio University)
Vu Thanh Trung (Tokyo Polytechnic University)
Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)
Yoko Kijima (GRIPS)
7 PhD students from University of Tokyo and GRIPS.
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2nd GRIPS - University of Tokyo Workshop on Empirical Studies on Human Capital (Jointly sponsored by Japan Society of Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo and GRIPS) Date: 29 March 2017
Time: 9:00 – 15:30
Venue: Room 3C, 3FL, GRIPS
Total number of attendants: 34 (Non-GRIPS participants: 23, GRIPS Students: 05, GRIPS
faculty: 06)
Program
9:30 am Reception
9:30 am David Figlio, Northwestern University Long-Term Orientation and Educational Outcomes
10:30 am Break
10:50 am Mari Tanaka, Hitotsubashi University The Impacts of Constructing Secondary and Vocational Schools: Historical Evidence in Japan
11:30 am Yasuyuki Sawada, University of Tokyo
Minhaj Mahmud, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
An Le, University of Tokyo
Mai Seki, Japan International Cooperation Agency (presenter)
Hikaru Kawarazaki, University of Tokyo
Individualized Self-learning Program to Improve Primary Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh
12:10 am Lunch, by invitation only
1:00 pm Hiroaki Mori, Hitotsubashi University Childhood Health and Live Cycle Human Capital Formation
1:40 pm Kensuke Maeba, University of Tokyo
Birth Order Effect Changes Under a Cash Transfer Program
2:20 pm Break
2:40 pm Hideo Akabayashi, Keio University
Ryuichi Tanaka, University of Tokyo
The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Evidence from the Nationwide Expansion
3:20 pm Adjourn Organizers
Stacey H. Chen, GRIPS and Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
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Pictures for the workshop
Devid Figlio (Northwestern University) Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo)
Mai Seki (Japan International Hiroaki Mori (Hitotsubashi University) Cooperation Agency)
Kensuke Maeba (University of Tokyo) Hideo Akabayashi (Keio University)
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Workshop participants Workshop participants
Discussion during break Discussion during break
Coffee break Lunch break
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Participants of the Workshop
Sl. Name Position Affiliation
1 David Figlio Professor Northwestern University
2 Hideo Akabayashi Professor Keio University
3 Chun-Fang Chiang Associate Professor National Taiwan University
4 Yoshihisa Godo Professor Meiji Gakuin University
5 Mizuki Komura Associate Professor Musashi University
6 Yu-Kuan Chen Director Teach-for-Taiwan Association
7 Michihito Ando Researcher National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
8 Mai Seki Research Fellow Japan International Cooperation Agency
9 Emiko Usui Associate Professor Hitotsubashi University
10 Naomi Kodama Associate Professor Hitotsubashi University
11 Mari Tanaka Assistant Professor Hitotsubashi University
12 Hiroaki Mori Assistant Professor Hitotsubashi University
13 Anthony Wray Adjunct Assistant Professor Hitotsubashi University
14 Ayako Kondo Associate Professor University of Tokyo
15 Daiji Kawaguchi Professor University of Tokyo
16 Hideo Owan Professor University of Tokyo
17 Ryuichi Tanaka Associate Professor University of Tokyo
18 Naoki Wakamori Assistant Professor University of Tokyo
19 Taiyo Fukai PhD Student University of Tokyo
20 Kensuke Maeba Graduate student University of Tokyo
21 An Le Graduate student University of Tokyo
22 Takahiro Toriyabe Graduate student University of Tokyo
23 Kazutomo Komae Master student University of Tokyo
24 Stephan Litschig Associate Professor GRIPS
25 Yoko Kijima Associate Professor GRIPS
26 Akifumi Ishihara Assistant Professor GRIPS
27 Stacey Chen Associate Professor GRIPS
28 Ponpoje Parapakkarm Assistant Professor GRIPS
29 Atsushi Inoue Professional Staff (SciREX Center)
GRIPS
30 Sharif Mosharraf Hossain PhD Student GRIPS
31 Adu Boahen Emmanuel PhD Student GRIPS
32 Tomomi Tanaka PhD Student GRIPS
33 Haile Abebe Fenta PhD Student GRIPS
34 Wahid Bux Mangrio PhD Student GRIPS
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Part C. Overall evaluation of the Public Economics Seminar
The seminars were successful. We organized nine seminars during April 2016 to February 2017. Participation for the nine seminars were encouraging, the average participation for the nine seminars is approximately 17 persons. Most of the participants were active researchers in the related areas. Majority of the participants were GRIPS students and faculty. In addition, there were participants from other institutions:
Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Georgia)
Ryuichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
Koki Oikawa (Waseda University)
Miguel Leow-ledesuia (University of Kent)
Michihito Ando (National research of population and social security research)
Ryo Ishida (Policy Research Institute)
Yoshihiro Kaneko (Hitotsubashi University)
Daiji Kawaguchi (University of Tokyo)
Hideo Owan (University of Tokyo)
Ayako Kondo (University of Tokyo)
Hiroaki Mori (Hitotsubashi University)
Hideo Akabayashi (Keio University)
Vu Thanh Trung (Tokyo Polytechnic University)
Maki Yokoyama (Ochanomizu Univiversity)
Megumi Nijmura (Ochanomizu University)
Hongwei Chuang ( Tohoku University)
Shiro Armstrong (Australian National University)
Sam Hardwrick (Australian National University)
The discussions and exchanges of ideas during the workshop were deep and insightful. Both speakers and participants benefited from the discussion. The seminars were opened to the general public. Organizers of the seminar disseminated seminar information through the website, https://sites.google.com/site/gripspubliceconomicsseminar/, which was publicly accessible. In addition, all joint public economics workshops could be found in this website and past workshops slides and papers are archived in this website. Apart from public economic seminars, part of the budget was used to sponsor the joint workshops with Keio University and University of Tokyo. The joint workshops were to create a close academic collaboration in economic area between GRIPS, Keio University and University of Tokyo. We extended invitation to famous economists around the world who could speak English language since presentations were done in English. We believe that the workshop would significantly raise both domestic and international recognition of GRIPS’s research activities in both the academic and non-academic circles.
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Looking ahead for the next academic year
In the future, the organizers will try harder to raise the quality of the public economic seminar series, and also increase the number of participants, particularly the participants from outside GRIPS.
Screen shot from the website for Public Economic Seminar
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