| Kenichi Kurita | Last modified date：2023.09.29 |
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The Basic Structure of Human Societies
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Academic Degree
Ph.D. in Economics (Kyushu University)
Field of Specialization
Applied microeconomics, Public economics, Public finance, Welfare policy
ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
0000-0002-8510-2756
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
00years01months
Outline Activities
[Refereed Papaers]
Kurita, K., Katafuchi, Y., & Managi, S. (2023) COVID-19, stigma, and habituation: Evidence from mobility data. BMC Public Health.
Kurita, K., & Managi, S. (2023). New economic geography model with natural capital and migration congestion effect. Economic Analysis and Policy, 77, 635-641.
Kurokawa, H., Igei, K., Kitsuki, A., Kurita, K., Managi, S., Nakamuro, M., & Sakano, A. (2023). Improvement impact of nudges incorporated in environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Journal of Environmental Management, 325, 116612.
Yoshida, K., Kurita, K., & Managi, S. (2022). Stakeholder engagement as a sustainable development strategy: Managerial entrenchment for cross-shareholdings. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 1–17.
Kurita, K., Hori, N., & Katafuchi, Y. (2022). Stigma model of welfare fraud and non‐take‐up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data. International Journal of Economic Theory, 18(3), 310-338.
Kurita, K., & Managi, S. "COVID-19 and stigma: Evolution of self-restraint behavior." Dynamic Games and Applications (2022): 1-15.
Kurita, K. "Welfare analysis of alternative poverty alleviation policies." Economics Bulletin (2021): 2484-2494.
Katafuchi, Y., Kurita, K., and Managi, S. "COVID-19 with stigma: Theory and evidence from mobility data." Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 5.1 (2021): 71-95.
[Research Grants]
JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-Up, "A Study on Economic Models of Welfare Stigma," August.30.2019-March.31.2021, Project/Area Number: 19K23194.
JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, "Economic Analysis of Targeted Transfers and Universal Basic Incomes with Welfare Stigma and Incomplete Take-Up," April.01.2020-March.31.2024, Project/Area Number: 20K13486.
Kurita, K., Katafuchi, Y., & Managi, S. (2023) COVID-19, stigma, and habituation: Evidence from mobility data. BMC Public Health.
Kurita, K., & Managi, S. (2023). New economic geography model with natural capital and migration congestion effect. Economic Analysis and Policy, 77, 635-641.
Kurokawa, H., Igei, K., Kitsuki, A., Kurita, K., Managi, S., Nakamuro, M., & Sakano, A. (2023). Improvement impact of nudges incorporated in environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Journal of Environmental Management, 325, 116612.
Yoshida, K., Kurita, K., & Managi, S. (2022). Stakeholder engagement as a sustainable development strategy: Managerial entrenchment for cross-shareholdings. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 1–17.
Kurita, K., Hori, N., & Katafuchi, Y. (2022). Stigma model of welfare fraud and non‐take‐up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data. International Journal of Economic Theory, 18(3), 310-338.
Kurita, K., & Managi, S. "COVID-19 and stigma: Evolution of self-restraint behavior." Dynamic Games and Applications (2022): 1-15.
Kurita, K. "Welfare analysis of alternative poverty alleviation policies." Economics Bulletin (2021): 2484-2494.
Katafuchi, Y., Kurita, K., and Managi, S. "COVID-19 with stigma: Theory and evidence from mobility data." Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 5.1 (2021): 71-95.
[Research Grants]
JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-Up, "A Study on Economic Models of Welfare Stigma," August.30.2019-March.31.2021, Project/Area Number: 19K23194.
JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, "Economic Analysis of Targeted Transfers and Universal Basic Incomes with Welfare Stigma and Incomplete Take-Up," April.01.2020-March.31.2024, Project/Area Number: 20K13486.
Research
Research Interests
Membership in Academic Society
- Economic analysis of an interaction between non-take-up welfare, welfare fraud and welfare stigma
keyword : Welfare stigma, Non-take-up welfare, Welfare fraud, Chain of poverty
2016.04.
Papers
| 1. | Wataru Nozawa, Kenichi Kurita, Tetsuya Tamaki, Shunsuke Managi, To What Extent Will Space Debris Impact the Economy?, Space Policy, 10.1016/j.spacepol.2023.101580, 101580-101580, 2023.08. |
| 2. | Shuning Chen, Kenichi Kurita, Takako Wakiyama, Shigemi Kagawa, Shunsuke Managi, Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development, Sustainability Science, 10.1007/s11625-023-01367-4, 2023.07. |
| 3. | Jun-ichi Itaya, Kenichi Kurita, Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma: Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up, CESifo Working Paper, 1-44, 2020.10. |
| 4. | Kenichi Kurita, Shunsuke Managi, Circular economy in cities: An economic theory to decouple economic development from waste, MPRA Paper, 2021.01. |
| 5. | COVID-19 with Stigma: Theory and Evidence from Mobility Data, [URL]. |
| 6. | Kenichi Kurita, Welfare analysis of alternative poverty alleviation policies, Economics Bulletin, 41, 4, 2484-2494, 2021.12, [URL]. |
| 7. | , [URL]. |
| 8. | Economic Analysis of Stigma in Public Policy: Poverty Alleviating Program, Environmental Policy, Financial Crisis, and Infectious Disease Control. |
| 9. | Hirofumi Kurokawa, Keigo Igei, Akinori Kitsuki, Kenichi Kurita, Shunsuke Managi, Makiko Nakamuro, Akira Sakano, Nudges to Increase the Effectiveness of Environmental Education, RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 2022.05. |
| 10. | Kenichi Kurita, Nobuaki Hori, Yuya Katafuchi, Stigma model of welfare fraud and non‐take‐up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data, International Journal of Economic Theory, 10.1111/ijet.12295, 18, 3, 310-338, 2022.08, [URL], This paper attempts to challenge two puzzles in the welfare program. The first puzzle is “non-take-up welfare,” which occurs when needy people do not take up welfare. Second, in some countries, the benefit level is high, but the recipient ratio is low; while the other nations have lower benefit levels but higher recipient ratios. We present a model of welfare stigma in which both non-take-up and welfare fraud exist within the equilibrium. This shows the possibility for the recipient ratio to decrease as the benefit level increases in the comparative statics. Our empirical results are consistent with our theoretical results.. |
| 11. | Kenichi Yoshida, Kenichi Kurita, Shunsuke Managi, Stakeholder engagement as a sustainable development strategy: Managerial entrenchment for cross‐shareholdings, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 10.1002/csr.2362, 30, 1, 402-418, 2022.09. |
| 12. | Hirofumi Kurokawa, Kengo Igei, Akinori Kitsuki, Kenichi Kurita, Shunsuke Managi, Makiko Nakamuro, Akira Sakano, Improvement impact of nudges incorporated in environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, Journal of Environmental Management, 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116612, 325, Part B, 1-18, 2023.01, This study conducted randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness of an environmental education class and the impacts of nudges and boosts implemented in this program on high school students' basic knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding environmental issues in Japan. This environmental education class consisted of a lecture on reducing the use of plastic products for energy conservation in daily life, a board game for learning how to reduce plastic waste, and a worksheet for reflection. Four types of worksheets were randomly distributed: nudges, in which students were asked to set a goal regarding their level of effort in not throwing away plastic products such as plastic bags, wet wipes, and plastic bottles; boosts, in which participants were asked to write an essay to help increase their empathy for the parties impacted by environmental issues; both nudges and boosts; and none (neither nudges nor boosts). After environmental education, an end-line survey was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this class. This study found that the environmental education class significantly improved students' basic environmental knowledge and promoted their concerns about plastic waste. Although there was no evidence that nudges and boosts amplify the effects of the environmental education class on the students' knowledge, nudges were successful in making them more concerned about plastic waste. The results showed that students who received nudges or boosts were more likely to refuse free wet wipes offered at convenience stores but were not more likely to refuse plastic bottles. These results also indicated that interventions through environmental education can change students' pro-environmental behaviors only if the cost of behavioral change is low. The environmental education class not only increased students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes, but the use of worksheets in administering nudges and boosts ensured the effectiveness of environmental education.. |
| 13. | Kenichi Kurita, Yuya Katafuchi, Shunsuke Managi, COVID-19, stigma, and habituation: evidence from mobility data, BMC Public Health, 10.1186/s12889-023-14980-w, 23, 98, 2023.01, Abstract Background: The Japanese government has restricted people’s going-out behavior by declaring a non-punitive state of emergency several times under COVID-19. This study aims to analyze how multiple policy interventions that impose non-legally binding restrictions on behavior associate with people’s going-out. Theory: This study models the stigma model of self-restraint behavior under the pandemic with habituation effects. The theoretical result indicates that the state of emergency’s self-restraint effects weaken with the number of times. Methods: The empirical analysis examines the impact of emergency declarations on going-out behavior using a prefecture-level daily panel dataset. The dataset includes Google’s going-out behavior data, the Japanese government’s policy interventions based on emergency declarations, and covariates that affect going-out behavior, such as weather and holidays. Results: First, for multiple emergency declarations from the beginning of the pandemic to 2021, the negative association between emergency declarations and mobility was confirmed in a model that did not distinguish the number of emergency declarations. Second, in the model that considers the number of declarations, the negative association was found to decrease with the number of declarations. Conclusion: These empirical analyses are consistent with the results of theoretical analyses, which show that the negative association between people’s going-out behavior and emergency declarations decreases in magnitude as the number of declarations increases.. |
| 14. | Kenichi Kurita, Shunsuke Managi, New economic geography model with natural capital and migration congestion effect, Economic Analysis and Policy, 10.1016/j.eap.2022.12.026, 77, 635-641, 2023.03. |
Presentations
- International Institute of Public Finance
- The Japan Society of International Economics
- American Economic Association
- Japan Association for Applied Economics
- Japanese Economic Association
- The Japan Public Choice Society
- Japanese Economic Association
- The Japan Public Choice Society
- Japanese Association of Applied Economics
- Kyushu Association of Economic Science
- Kawanobe Prize
- Kawanobe Prize
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