Yuki Higuchi   Edwin P. Mhede   Tetsushi Sonobe   
World Development 114 220-236 2019年2月 [査読有り]
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, coa...
Resource and Energy Economics 54 109-124 2018年11月 [査読有り]
This study examines the association between social preferences and recycling behavior in a developing country. A conceptual framework that modifies the impure altruism model with heterogeneous preferences and further incorporates the impure public...
If the middle-income traps were merely equated with prolonged growth slowdowns occurring in the middle-income stage, as it is in some empirical studies, this concept would lose the meaning of existence. This paper proposes a new definition that co...
This paper illustrates the sharp contrast in welfare impacts between the rich and the poor caused by typhoon Milenyo in a Philippine village. We find that fish prices dropped sharply due to the damage caused to fish pens near the village, leading ...
Yuki Higuchi   Vu Hoang Nam   Tetsushi Sonobe   
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 120 189-206 2015年12月 [査読有り]
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of short-term management training for small manufacturers in two study sites in Vietnam and collected follow-up data repeatedly for two years to assess longer-term impacts than the existing studies of man...