Education/Professional Training and Employment/Other Affiliations/Research Objectives/Referred Publications/Other Publications/Working Papers/Honors and Awards/Grants and Fellowships/Teaching Experience/Conference and Seminar Presentations/Current Professional Memberships/Professional Services

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Business address:
School of International Politics, Economics and Communication (SIPEC), Aoyama Gakuin University
4-4-25, Shibuya, Tokyo, 150-8366, Japan

E-mail:

hkato.econ[at]gmail.com hkato.econ[at]aoyamagakuin.jp

Education

PhD in Economics
April 2019 – March 2025
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Dissertation title: “Empirical Analysis of Policies Promoting Altruistic Behavior”
Advisor: Fumio Ohtake, Osaka University

MA in Economics
April 2017 – March 2019
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

BA in International Politics, Economics, and Business
April 2013 – March 2017
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Professional Training and Employment

Assistant Professor
April 2025 – Present
SIPEC, Aoyama Gakuin University

Specially Appointed Research Associate
April 2023 – March 2025
Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University

Specially Appointed Researcher
April 2022 – March 2023
Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

Other Affiliations

Visiting Researcher
April 2022 – Present
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University

Part-time Lecturer
April 2021 – March 2023
Faculty of Law, Konan University

Research Objectives

Behavioral economics, Health economics, Applied microeconometrics

Referred Publications

  1. Kato, Hiroki, Tsuyoshi Goto, and Youngrok Kim. 2025. “Tax-Price Elasticities of Charitable Giving and Selection of Reporting: Panel Study of South Korea.” Oxford Economic Papers, February, gpaf002. doi:10.1093/oep/gpaf002.
  2. Kato, Hiroki, Shusaku Sasaki, and Fumio Ohtake. 2024. “Adding Nudge-Based Reminders to Financial Incentives for Promoting Antibody Testing and Vaccination to Prevent the Spread of Rubella.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 113 (December):102300. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2024.102300.
  3. Ohtake, Fumio, Hiroki Kato, Rena Shigeoka, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Yukariko Hida, Saiko Kurosawa, and Takahiro Fukuda. 2020. “Behavioral Characteristics of Bone Marrow Registrants and Stem Cell Donors.” Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance 13 (August):32–52. doi:10.11167/jbef.13.32.
    • This paper is written in Japanese. English abstract is available.

Other Publications

I wrote two book chapters and two proceedings in Japanese.
See my Japanese CV.

Working Papers

  1. Goto, Tsuyoshi, Kai Nomura, and Hiroki Kato. “Estimating the impact of Pay-As-You-Throw program on waste reduction – Using MTE Analysis”
  2. Kato, Hiroki, Fumio Ohtake, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Saiko Kurosawa, and Takahiro Fukuda. “Exploring Text Messages to Promote Stem Cell Donation: Evidence from Field Experiment of Japan Marrow Donor Program”
  3. Kato, Hiroki, and Youngrok Kim. “Charity Fraud: An Experimental Study of the Moral Hazard Problem in the Charity Market.”
  4. Sasaki, Shusaku, Takunori Ishihara, and Hiroki Kato. “Rebate versus Matching, Again: Does Self-Selection Matter?”
  5. Kato, Hiroki, Shusaku Sasaki, and Fumio Ohtake. “Mailing Vouchers: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis on Rubella Antibody Testing and Vaccination.”
  6. Ohtake, Fumio, and Hiroki Kato “Who Works from Home after First Declaration State of Emergency?”

Honors and Awards

Encouragement Award
December 2022
Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance 16th Annual Conference

Best Paper Award
November 2022
17th Applied Econometrics Conference

Award for Student Dissertation
November 2019
Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance

Grants and Fellowships

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
August 2023 – March 2025
Principal Investigator
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), KAKENHI (23K18778)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
April 2023 – March 2025
Co-Investigator
JSPS, KAKENHI (20H05632)

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
April 2020 – March 2022
JSPS, KAKENHI

Teaching Experience

SIPEC, Aoyama Gakuin University:

  • Introductory Seminar I | 2025 –
  • Preceptorial Seminar | 2025 –
  • Principles of Microeconomics | 2025 –
  • Microeconomics I and II | 2025 –
  • Macroeconomics I and II | 2025 –
  • Selected Topics in International Economics I and II | 2025 –
    • I teach mathematics frequently used in economics and statistics.

Faculty of Law, Konan University:

  • Introduction to Microeconomics (B) | 2021 – 2023

Conference and Seminar Presentations

2024: European Meeting of ESA, Hanken, Helsinki; Autumn Meeting of the JEA, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka; 27th Experimental Social Science Conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto.
2023: Workshop on Microeconomic Analysis of Social Systems and Institutions: Theory, Experiment and Empirical Studies, Kansai University, Osaka; Workshop on Empirical Social Sciences for Charity, Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto; Workshop on The Economics of Human Resource Allocation, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima; HIAS Health The 62nd regular seminar, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; ABEF 17th Annual Conference, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi.
2022: CEPO Lunch Seminar, Osaka University, Osaka; 17th Applied Econometrics Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo; ABEF 16the Annual Conference, Meiji University, Tokyo.
2021: 77th Annual Congress of IIPF, online.
2020: Workshop on The Economics of Human Resource Allocation, Osaka University, Osaka; Workshop on Empirical Social Sciences for Charity, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
2019: Spring Meeting of JEA, Musashi University, Tokyo (poster); Workshop on Empirical Social Sciences for Charity, Kyoto University, Kyoto.

Current Professional Memberships

  • Japanese Economic Association
  • Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance

Professional Services

Advisor for Community Health Care Visions
April 2023 – Present
Tokyo Metropolitan Government