Curriculum Vitaes

Higuchi Yuki

  (樋口 裕城)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, Sophia University
Degree
学士(文学)(京都大学)
修士(国際開発研究)(政策研究大学院大学)
博士(開発経済学)(政策研究大学院大学)

Researcher number
60757269
J-GLOBAL ID
201701020960258420
researchmap Member ID
B000282043

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Major Papers

 19
  • Yuki Higuchi, Keisaku Higashida, Mosharraf M. Hossain, Mohammad Sujauddin, Ryo Takahashi, Kenta Tanaka
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming, Apr, 2024  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
  • Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, forthcoming, Sep, 2023  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
  • World Economy, forthcoming, Aug, 2023  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
  • Yuki Higuchi, Edwin P. Mhede, Vu Hoang Nam, Tetsushi Sonobe
    World Bank Economic Review, 34 S68-S71, Feb, 2020  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    This paper investigates the impact of management training programs on garment clusters in Vietnam and Tanzania. The study found that in the medium run firms showed improvement once they had identified useful practices and adapted them to their operations. Although it takes a few years to experience a significant impact on incomes, management training can increase not just management scores but also incomes or value added.
  • Yuki Higuchi, Edwin P. Mhede, Tetsushi Sonobe
    World Development, 114 220-236, Feb, 2019  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    While entrepreneurs play a key role in industrial development, the managerial capacity of those in developing countries seems limited. A number of randomized controlled trials have been conducted to evaluate the impacts of management training, coaching, or consultation programs. These studies found that the interventions had positive impacts on management knowledge and management practices, but the impacts on business performance measured in terms of sales revenue, value added, or profit were often statistically insignificant. Such mixed results may be attributed to experiment designs, including training content and the time elapsed till the follow-up observation. The present study attempts to substantiate this hypothesis by means of a randomized controlled trial of management training in Tanzania that targets 113 small manufacturers. As in some recent studies, it extends the observation period to three years to examine the trajectory of training impacts. Unlike many other studies, it is an impact assessment of training programs that covered quality control and production management as the training topics in addition to entrepreneurship, marketing, and record keeping. The treated firms made adaptive efforts to select useful practices and modify them to fit their business operation. It finds that the training effects on business performance are large and statistically significant, particularly in the medium-run. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Major Misc.

 15

Major Books and Other Publications

 4
  • Keijiro Otsuka, Yuki Higuchi, Aya Suzuki (Role: Contributor, Challenges in Empirical Research in Economics: The Way Forward)
    Springer, May, 2024 (ISBN: 9789819718870)
  • 大塚, 啓二郎, 黒崎, 卓, 澤田, 康幸, 園部, 哲史 (Role: Contributor, 第3章:これからの実証経済学における課題)
    日本評論社, Jun, 2023 (ISBN: 9784535540507)
  • 経済セミナー編集部 (Role: Contributor, 86-90)
    日本評論社, Aug, 2020 (ISBN: 9784535559769)

Major Presentations

 28

Major Research Projects

 16