I research strategies to break poverty traps through the accumulation of human capital.

Working Paper

• Christopher Barrett, Nathan Jensen, Karlijn Morsink, Yuma Noritomo, and Hyuk Harry Son. Long-run effects of catastrophic drought insurance.

Work in Progress

• Yuma Noritomo. Does the timing of droughts in childhood affect educational attainment?
• Yuma Noritomo and Yoshito Takasaki. Research site selection bias: lessons from a natural experiment in the Peruvian Amazon.
• Yuma Noritomo and Hiroto Sato. Migration and human capital investment.

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.