Curriculum Vitae

Current position

2024- Capital One, McLean, VA
  Manager - Quantitative Analyst
2022-2024 Capital One, McLean, VA
  Principal Associate - Quantitative Analyst
   

Education

2016-2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  Ph.D. Program, Agricultural & Applied Economics
   
2014-2016 Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
  Master of Economics, Valedictorian in Master’s program in 2016
   
2010-2014 Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  Bachelor of Science, Major: Agricultural Economics
   

Work Experience

2021-2022 UW-Madison, Research Assistant to Priya Mukherjee
2020 Word Bank, Short-term consultant for Maria Ruth Jones
  R Econ Visual Library and Stata linter are the main products
2019 World Bank, Short-term consultant for Shinsaku Nomura
2017-2020 UW-Madison, Research Assistant to Jeremy Foltz and Thomas Rutherford
2016-2017 UW-Madison, Research Assistant to Laura Schechter
2014-2016 Hitotsubashi University, Research Assistant to Makoto Saito
   

Computer Skills

Statistical Analysis Stata, R, Matlab
Programming Python, Julia, SQL, C++
Technology LaTeX, Vim, Unix, AWS, Docker, Git
   

Languages

  • English: Fluent
  • Japanese: Native

Research Interests

Development economics, applied microeconometrics

Publications

  1. Winter weather on exam dates and matriculation for a prestigious university in Japan, Economics Letters 237 (2024): 111631

  2. Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay
    with Laura Schechter and Guanming Shi, Forthcoming Economic Development and Cultural Change

  3. Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico, Forthcoming Journal of Development Economics [World Bank blog article]

Working papers

  1. Temperature and the work of bureaucrats
    with Ana Paula Melo

  2. Temperature, effort, and achievement
    with Ana Paula Melo

  3. Revisit a correlated random coefficient model in technology adoption

Teaching Experience

2021 Teaching Assistant for AAE 350, World Hunger and Malnutrition, UW-Madison
2019 Teaching Assistant for AAE 635, Applied Microeconomic Theory, UW-Madison
2019 Instructor for math camp for incoming AAE graduate students, UW-Madison
2015 Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Macroeconomics, Hitotsubashi University
2015 Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Microeconomics, Hitotsubashi University
   

Certificates

Awards

  • Outstanding 2020-21 TA Award, UW-Madison AAE (2021)
  • Heiwa Nakajima Foundation, scholarship for students studying abroad (2016 - 2018)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, research fellowship (DC1) (Declined upon studying abroad)

Presentations

2023 Data Viz DC February Meetup
2022 Midwest International Economic Development Conference, University of Georgia (graduate students development workshop), Hitotsubashi University (Economic Development Workshop)
2021 Annual summer conference (virtual) of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
2019 Annual summer conference (at Atlanta) of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)