Hitoshi Shigeoka

Research Fellow

University of Tokyo

Hitoshi Shigeoka's research field is applied microeconomics, especially health economics. These include analyses of how patients respond to the price of health care, how physicians react to the financial incentives, how the expansion of health insurance coverage affects utilization and supply of health care, how the repeal of federal prohibition affects infant mortality in the US, and how the introduction of face-mask mandates affect the case growth of COVID-19, and the introduction of vaccine mandates in vaccine uptake in Canada.

He applies state-of-art statistical techniques to many kinds of data including administrative data, survey data, and data from a laboratory experiment. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He obtained Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2012.

Hitoshi Shigeoka joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2021.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16403
Mika Akesaka, Hitoshi Shigeoka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16287
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.
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