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[Accepting]
IDE School on Spatial Economics for Young Economists @IDE-JETRO, October 15-17, 2025
The IDE School is a short-intensive academic program for young economists coming from all over the world. The school has a three-day program of lectures and workshops by inviting two eminent scholars. The aim of this program is to provide young economists an opportunity to join in on the latest developments in the field of Spatial Economics, and to present their own ongoing research followed by vital feedback and discussion in a relaxed and open atmosphere. While the school will primarily be appealing to those who work in the fields of Spatial, Urban and Regional Economics, we would very much ...
Seminar
Event Date：
2025.10.15
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2025.10.17
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[Accepting]
Professor Yuki Higuchi (Sophia University): Gaming for Cohesion: A Study on Integrating Refugees Through Virtual Intergroup Contact
This paper investigates the effects of intergroup contact in a virtual environment on social cohesion between ingroups and outgroups. By leveraging a virtual setting and using computer bots, we provide causal evidence on the heterogeneous effects of intergroup contact based on perceived outgroup performance levels. Developing an original gaming application, we conducted a nationwide pre-registered randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, where Bangladeshi participants interacted virtually with Rohingya. We found that virtual interactions with Rohingya of similar or lower performance fostered...
APL
Event Date：2025.09.04
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[Accepting]
Professor Matthew McCartney (African School of Economics-Zanzibar): South Asia and Africa: A Puzzle of Contemporary Urbanization
The global urban population is forecast to increase from 4.22bn in 2018 to 6.68bn in 2050, with 95% of this increase occurring in countries of the global south. There is good reason for optimism. Historically, GDP per capita and urbanization have increased together. Countries that experienced an acceleration of economic growth, such as China after 1980, also experienced accelerated urbanization (Pritchett, 2014). Cities have historically been drivers of industrialization and economic growth. There are well-established theoretical and empirical reasons to link urbanization to explain these econ...
APL
Event Date：2025.08.21
[Accepting] IDE School on Spatial Economics for Young Economists @IDE-JETRO, October 15-17, 2025 The IDE School is a short-intensive academic program for young economists coming from all over the world. The school has a three-day program of lectures and workshops by inviting two eminent scholars. The aim of this program is to provide young economists an opportunity to join in on the latest developments in the field of Spatial Economics, and to present their own ongoing research followed by vital feedback and discussion in a relaxed and open atmosphere. While the school will primarily be appealing to those who work in the fields of Spatial, Urban and Regional Economics, we would very much ... Seminar Event Date： 2025.10.15 ～ 2025.10.17
[Accepting] Professor Yuki Higuchi (Sophia University): Gaming for Cohesion: A Study on Integrating Refugees Through Virtual Intergroup Contact This paper investigates the effects of intergroup contact in a virtual environment on social cohesion between ingroups and outgroups. By leveraging a virtual setting and using computer bots, we provide causal evidence on the heterogeneous effects of intergroup contact based on perceived outgroup performance levels. Developing an original gaming application, we conducted a nationwide pre-registered randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, where Bangladeshi participants interacted virtually with Rohingya. We found that virtual interactions with Rohingya of similar or lower performance fostered... APL Event Date：2025.09.04