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Ogasawara Lab
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An empirical economics lab that uses historical statistics to explore how human capital is formed.
AboutAbout the lab
The mechanisms of human capital formation in economic development
The Ogasawara Lab studies how human capital is formed in the course of economic development.
Its key resource is historical statistics, which record the state of past societies and economies.
The lab builds new long-term socioeconomic databases and analyzes them statistically with econometric models designed for each purpose.
Through this analysis, the lab aims to deliver insights useful for development.
Key terms
- Human capital
- The idea of treating the knowledge and skills people acquire through education and training as capital that supports the economy
- Historical statistics
- Statistical records that document, in numbers, the population, industry, and living conditions of the past
- Econometric models
- A statistical model that expresses how an economy works in mathematical form and estimates relationships among factors from data
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to uncover the mechanisms of human capital formation in the process of economic development, using historical statistics. It builds new long-term socioeconomic databases and conducts statistical analysis with econometric models.
*Illustrative imageHow prewar Tokyo households made ends meet
How did people protect their livelihoods when their income suddenly dropped? Using household account books of workers in prewar Tokyo, the lab statistically examines how households maintained their consumption in times of illness or unemployment.
*Illustrative imageSociety after disasters and wars
Using historical statistics, the lab analyzes regional growth after the 1933 Sanriku tsunami and the effect that the gender imbalance caused by World War II had on marriage, exploring the long-term impact that major events leave on society.
*Illustrative imageThe long history of children's health
Tracing the history of children's height growth and stillbirths reveals a society's wealth and medical progress. Through international collaborative research, the lab studies records of children's growth around the world since the 19th century, the relationship between smallpox and stillbirths, and more.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKota Ogasawara
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Former Kaichi School 2009” Wiiii / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- How prewar Tokyo households made ends meet: “Tokyo Ginza, 1935-08” Kōyō Ishikawa / Public domain (cropped)
- Society after disasters and wars: “1933 Sanriku Earthquake damage at Onagawa” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- The long history of children's health: “Well-baby-clinic-Tulare-migrant-camp-Visalia-CA” Arthur Rothstein / Public domain (cropped)
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