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Toru Kitagawa

Toru Kitagawa

Research Fellow

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Toru is a research staff member at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) and is also a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics. He has previously taught Microeconomectrics and Econometrics for Policy.

Academic outputs

Cemmap Working Paper CWP28/21
Who should get vaccinated? Individualized allocation of vaccines over SIR network
How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic times. This paper develops a procedure to estimate an individualized vaccine allocation policy under limited supply, exploiting social network data containing individual demographic ...
Cemmap Working Paper CWP16/21
Testing identifying assumptions in fuzzy regression discontinuity designs
We propose a new specification test for assessing the validity of fuzzy regression discontinuity designs (FRD-validity).

Reports and comment

Presentations

Presentation
Covariate selection and model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects
This paper was presented at the Asian Meeting of Econometrics Society 2013 in Singapore on 2 to 4 August 2013.
Presentation
A bootstrap test for instrument validity in heterogeneous treatment effect models
This paper was presented at an Econometrics Seminar at Yale University in February 2013.