I'm Yuma Noritomo, a PhD student at Dyson, Cornell. I visited PSE in Fall 2024. e-mail: yn266[at]cornell.edu
My research focuses on strategies to reduce chronic poverty through human capital accumulation.
Working Paper / Work in Progress
- Yuma Noritomo. Does the timing of productivity shocks in childhood affect educational attainment? [Scheduled presentation: CSAE, JADE, Kobe, Wageningen, ES World Congress] Kanematsu Award
- Christopher Barrett, Nathan Jensen, Karlijn Morsink, Yuma Noritomo, Hyuk Harry Son, Rupsha Banerjee, and Nils Teufel. Long-run effects of catastrophic drought insurance. [Scheduled presentation: Kyoto, Cornell, UNU-WIDER] Submitted
- Takuya Hasebe, Yuma Noritomo, and Bilesha Weeraratne. Restricting mothers’ international migration and human capital investment. [Scheduled presentation: AEDC]
- Yuma Noritomo and Karlijn Morsink. Trading off human capital versus productive asset investment: perceptions of risk and return.
- Jensen et al. Index-based livestock insurance to support pastoralists against droughts. Submitted
- Yuma Noritomo, Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. Research site selection bias.
Publication
- Yuma Noritomo and Kazushi Takahashi (2020). Can insurance payouts prevent a poverty trap? Evidence from randomised experiments in northern Kenya, The Journal of Development Studies, 56(11), 2079-2096.
- Kazushi Takahashi, Yuma Noritomo, Munenobu Ikegami, and Nathaniel D. Jensen (2020). Understanding pastoralists' dynamic insurance uptake decisions: Evidence from four-year panel data in Ethiopia, Food Policy, 95, 101910.