I'm Yuma Noritomo, an IRONMAN 🏊🚴🏃 and a PhD student at Dyson, Cornell. Currently, I'm visiting the Development Research Group at PSE. e-mail: yn266[at]cornell.edu
I research strategies to break poverty traps through the accumulation of human capital.
Working Paper / Work in Progress
- Christopher Barrett, Nathan Jensen, Karlijn Morsink, Yuma Noritomo, Hyuk Harry Son, Rupsha Banerjee, and Nils Teufel. Long-run effects of catastrophic drought insurance. Submitted Presentation: UNU-WIDER2025
- Yuma Noritomo. Does the timing of productivity shocks in childhood affect educational attainment? Presentation at PSE, Utrecht, NEUDC2024, The 19th Applied Econometrics Conference, EWMES2024, CSAE2025
- Takuya Hasebe, Yuma Noritomo, and Bilesha Weeraratne. Restricting mothers’ international migration and child health and education.
- 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.