Izumi Yokoyama is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Hitotsubashi University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2013. Her primary research fields are Labor Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Econometrics.
Her research identifies the causal effects of institutional changes and exogenous shocks on individual and firm behavior, as well as welfare, through both theoretical and empirical approaches. Her work integrates economic theory with empirical analysis as a central research strategy, enabling her to produce research that offers insights broadly applicable to international settings, despite being grounded in the Japanese context. Consequently, her work has been highly recognized internationally and is regularly published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including many Q1 journals.
