Yasuyuki Sawada

TL;DR: The authors examined how decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools affects student outcomes and found that enhanced community and parental involvement in EDUCO schools has improved students' language skills and diminished student absences, which may have long-term effects on achievement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the coping strategies employed by victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake and found that households that held a large amount of collateralizable assets before the catastrophe and were free from a binding borrowing constraint were able to maintain their consumption levels by borrowing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the determinants of access to different credit sources and their impacts on firm profitability and growth, and demonstrate that factors determining access to credit are often different from those affecting enterprise performance, indicating limited impacts of credit access on enterprise performance.

TL;DR: A new, sui generis data set including all villages, towns, and cities on the Pacific Ocean side of the Tohoku region is used to untangle the factors connected to mortality during the disaster and finds that tsunami height, stocks of social capital, and level of political support for the long-ruling LDP strongly influenced mortality rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of economic theories and empirical studies on the socio-economic aspects of suicide is presented, which highlights the importance of studying suicide by employing a rational approach that complements the medical perspective on suicide.