I'm Yuma Noritomo, a PhD student at Dyson, Cornell. I visited PSE in Fall 2024, with shorter research visits at Utrecht and DEC at Wageningen. Reach out to me at yn266[at]cornell.edu
My research focuses on strategies to reduce chronic poverty through human capital accumulation in developing countries.
Working Paper / Work in Progress
- Yuma Noritomo. Does the timing of productivity shocks in childhood affect educational attainment? Kanematsu Award, Nishijima Award
- Christopher Barrett, Nathan Jensen, Karlijn Morsink, Yuma Noritomo, Hyuk Harry Son, Rupsha Banerjee, and Nils Teufel. Long-run effects of catastrophic drought insurance. [slide] Submitted
- Takuya Hasebe, Yuma Noritomo, and Bilesha Weeraratne. Restricting mothers' international migration and human capital investment. Submitted
- Yoshito Takasaki, Yuma Noritomo, Oliver Coomes, and Christian Abizaid. Site selection causes bias in policy-oriented social science. Submitted
- Yuma Noritomo and Karlijn Morsink. Trading off human capital versus productive asset investment: perceptions of risk and return.
Publication
- Jensen et al. Index-based livestock insurance to support pastoralists against droughts.Accepted at Food Policy
- 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.