There has long been interest in the effect of stay abroad on pragmatic development in second language (L2) pragmatics research. However, few testing instruments exist to assess pragmatics learning in stay abroad and provide information a...
Asian Development Review 37(2) 100-133 2020年9月 [査読有り]
We conducted a randomized experiment targeting 322 Japanese high school students to examine the impacts of a newly developed English-language learning program. The treated students were offered an opportunity to communicate for 25 minutes with Eng...
Yuki Higuchi   Edwin P. Mhede   Vu Hoang Nam   Tetsushi Sonobe   
World Bank Economic Review 34 S68-S71 2020年2月 [査読有り]
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 ope...
Aid from the government can play a critical role as a risk-coping device in a post-disaster situation if the recipients are properly targeted. We analyze the accuracy of disaster aid targeting and self-reporting bias in disaster damage and aid rec...