Fumio Ohtake

Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research

Professor

1-7 Machikaneyamacho

Toyonaka

Osaka, 560-0043

Japan

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Scholarly Papers (38)

Diminishing Marginal Utility Revisited

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 11 Apr 2015
University of Colorado Boulder, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Kyoto Bunkyo University and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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diminishing marginal utility, hypothetical choice, risk aversion, intertemporal substitution, altruism

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寺院・地蔵・神社の社会・経済的帰結:ソーシャル・キャピタルを通じた所得・幸福度・健康への影響 (Long Term Effects of Buddhist Temples, Jizo Bodhisattvas and Shrines on a School Route: The Effects on Income, Happiness and Health Thorough Social Capital)

ISER Discussion Paper No. 995
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Takahiro Ito, Kohei Kubota and Fumio Ohtake
Kobe University - Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Yamagata University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Social capital, general trust, reciprocity, altruism, income, happiness, religion, health

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Blood Type and Blood Donation Behavior

ISER Discussion Paper No. 1029
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 May 2018 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2020
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics, School of Economics and Management and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Inborn quality, ABO blood group, blood donation, common pool resource

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Altruistic and Selfish Motivations of Charitable Giving: Case of the Hometown Tax Donation System

ISER Discussion Paper No. 1003
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 May 2017
Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake
Seinan Gakuin University, Kyoto Bunkyo University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Altruism, Charitable giving, Hometown tax donation, Warm glow, Self-interest, Redistribution

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最低賃金の変化が就業と貧困に与える影響 (Impact of Change in Minimum Wage on Employment and Poverty in Japan)

ISER Discussion Paper No. 999
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jul 2018
Mika Akesaka, Yukiko Ito and Fumio Ohtake
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan Center for Economic Research and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Minimum Wage Employment, Poverty

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Wage Growth Through Job Hopping in China

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7104
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Jan 2013
Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki and Zheren Wu
Kyoto University - Institute of Economic Research, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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wage growth, migration, school to work transition

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Positive and Negative Effects of Social Status on Longevity: Evidence from Two Literary Prizes in Japan

ISER Discussion Paper No. 968, Journal of Japanese and International Economies, No. 101037, 2019
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2021
Shusaku Sasaki, Hirofumi Kurokawa and Fumio Ohtake
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, School of Economics and Management and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Social Status, Mortality, Health Inequality, Cox’s Proportional Hazard Model, Time-dependent Covariates, Time-dependent Parameters

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Older Sisters and Younger Brothers: The Impact of Siblings on Preference for Competition

ISER Discussion Paper No. 896
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Mar 2014
Okayama University, Kyushu University, Institute for Research on Household Economics, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Doshisha University
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Sibling competition, Gender gap, Preference for competition, Experiment

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The Hidden Curriculum and Social Preferences

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Jan 2016
Takahiro Ito, Kohei Kubota and Fumio Ohtake
Hiroshima University, Yamagata University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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cultural transmission, socialization, preference formation, hidden curriculum, elementary education, Japan

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Experiments on Risk Attitude: The Case of Chinese Students

ISER Discussion Paper No. 664
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Jul 2006
Kyoto Bunkyo University, Kinki University, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Ritsumeikan University and Fudan University
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risk aversion, economic experiment, China

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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7836
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Dec 2013
Masaru Sasaki and Fumio Ohtake
Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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work morale, corporate sports, subjective well-being analysis, Japan

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Fat Debtors: Time Discounting, its Anomalies, and Body Mass Index

ISER Discussion Paper No. 732
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Mar 2009
Kwansei Gakuin UniversityOsaka University, Korea University - Department of Business Administration and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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BMI, obesity, underweight, time preference, discount rate, hyperbolic discounting, procrastination, the sign effect

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Elicitation Designs and Time Discounting: Comparison of Predictive Power on Behavior

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2015
Toyo University, Kwansei Gakuin UniversityOsaka University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Time discount rate, Dynamic inconsistency, Elicitation designs

The Long-Term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution

Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University Discussion Paper No. 897
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Apr 2014
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research
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Natural disasters, Wage distribution, Wage decomposition, Earthquake

The Long-Term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8124
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Apr 2014
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research
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natural disasters, wage distribution, wage decomposition, earthquake

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Who Supports Redistribution?

Osaka University Discussion Paper No. 603
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Jun 2004
Fumio Ohtake and Jun Tomioka
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Aomori Public University - Department of Management & Economics
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Income redistribution, Inequality, Uncertainty, Unemployment

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Altruism and the Care of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Japanese Families

ISER Discussion Paper No. 670
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Aug 2006
Miki Kohara and Fumio Ohtake
Osaka School of International Public Policy and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Altruism, Informal Parental Care, Within-family Money and Time Transfers, Home Production

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A Choice Experiment on Taxes: Are Income and Consumption Taxes Equivalent?

ISER Discussion Paper No. 966
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2016
Hirofumi Kurokawa, Tomoharu Mori and Fumio Ohtake
School of Economics and Management, College of Comprehensive Psychology, Ritsumeikan University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Tax equivalence, Income tax, Consumption tax, Misperception of tax, Behavioral and experimental economics

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Is Being Agreeable a Key to Success or Failure in the Labor Market?

ISER Discussion Paper No. 960
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Mar 2016
Sun Youn Lee and Fumio Ohtake
Meiji Gakuin University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Big-Five personality, agreeableness, company size, earnings, promotion

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Organization Adjustments, Job Training and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Automobile Makers

ISER Discussion Paper No. 784
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Jul 2010
Kyoto University - Institute of Economic Research, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and Osaka University
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Job training, productivity improvement, relocation, rotation, workplace practices

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Nudges for COVID-19 Voluntary Vaccination: How to Explain Peer Information?

Discussion Papers In Economics And Business 2021, Social Science & Medicine 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114561
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2021
Shusaku Sasaki, Tomoya Saito and Fumio Ohtake
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Herd immunity, Behavioral public policy, Nudge, Framing effect, Autonomy

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Attitudes Toward the Income Gap: Japan-U.S. Comparison

ISER Discussion Paper No. 687
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 May 2007
Fumio Ohtake and Shinji Takenaka
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Osaka University - Graduate School of Economics
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income gap, income inequalitly, Japan-U.S. comparison, perception of the gap

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Education and Pro-Family Altruistic Discrimination Against Foreigners: Five-Country Comparisons

ISER Discussion Paper No. 1002
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 May 2017
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, Osaka University - Graduate School of Economics, Doshisha University - Faculty of Economics and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Altruism, Attitude toward foreigners, Discrimination against foreigners, Immigration policy, Education, Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

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Overconfidence Increases Productivity

ISER Discussion Paper No. 814
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Kyushu University, Institute for Research on Household Economics, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Okayama University
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expectation, overconfidence, reward structure, productivity, experiment

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The Productivity of Public Capital: Evidence from the 1994 Electoral Reform of Japan

ISER Discussion Paper No. 627
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Mar 2005
Daiji Kawaguchi, Fumio Ohtake and Keiko Tamada
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Fukuoka University - Faculty of Economics
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Public Capital, Productivity, Political Economy, Instrumental

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Procrastinators and Hyperbolic Discounters: Probability of Transition from Temporary to Full-time Employment

ISER Discussion Paper No. 841
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 May 2012
Fumio Ohtake and SunYoung Lee
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Independent
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time preferences, temporary employment, ATT estimation

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Time Discounting: Declining Impatience and Interval Effect

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jan 2007
Yusuke Kinari, Fumio Ohtake and Yoshiro Tsutsui
Kyushu University, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Kyoto Bunkyo University
Downloads 110 (518,825)
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time discount rate, declining impatience, interval effect, subadditivity, Weber's law

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Testing the Morale Theory of Nominal Wage Rigidity

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Jun 2004
Daiji Kawaguchi and Fumio Ohtake
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Economics and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Nominal Wage Rigidity, Work Morale, Deflation

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Happiness Before and after an Election: An Analysis Based on a Daily Survey Around Japan's 2009 Election

ISER Discussion Paper No. 924
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Feb 2015
Kyushu University, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Osaka University - Graduate School of Economics and Kyoto Bunkyo University
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happiness, election, expectation, survey, Japan

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Appraising the Unhappiness Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence From Weekly Panel Data on Subjective Well-Being

ISER Discussion Paper No. 876
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Jul 2013
Fumio Ohtake and Katsunori Yamada
Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Kindai University - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 90 (594,418)
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Great East Japan Earthquake, subjective well-being, experienced utility approach, focusing effect, high frequency data panel

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How Conscious Are You of Others? Further Evidence on Relative Income and Happiness

ISER Discussion Paper No. 1022, 2018
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Sun Youn Lee and Fumio Ohtake
Meiji Gakuin University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Happiness, Relative Income, Relative Consciousness, Utility

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Activity, Time, and Subjective Happiness: An Analysis Based on an Hourly Web Survey

ISER Discussion Paper No. 926
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Feb 2015
Hideaki Sakawa, Fumio Ohtake and Yoshiro Tsutsui
Nagoya City University, Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Kyoto Bunkyo University
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happiness, hourly web survey, ESM, mobile phone, Japan

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Koizumi Carried the Day: Did the Japanese Election Results Make People Happy and Unhappy?

ISER Discussion Paper No. 695
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Jul 2007
Yoshiro Tsutsui, Miles S. Kimball and Fumio Ohtake
Kyoto Bunkyo University, University of Colorado Boulder and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
Downloads 73 (670,347)
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election, happiness, Koizumi Cabinet, survey, Japan

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Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina

NBER Working Paper No. w12062
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 May 2006 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Institute for Social Research (ISR), Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research and Kyoto Bunkyo University
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A Japan’s Experimental Comparison of Rebate and Matching in Charitable Giving

ISER DP No. 1114, The Japanese Economic Review, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-021-00085-9
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021
Shusaku Sasaki, Hirofumi Kurokawa and Fumio Ohtake
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, School of Economics and Management and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Charitable subsidy, Tax incentive, Framing effect, Online experiment

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Relative Income Position and Happiness: Are Cabinet Supporters Different from Others in Japan?

ISER Discussion Paper No. 921
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake
Seinan Gakuin University, Kyoto Bunkyo University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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Relative income, Positional concerns, Happiness, Government supporter, Japan

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Labor Supply Reaction to Wage Cuts and Tax Increases: A Real-Effort Experiment

ISER DP No. 1100, 2020
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Nov 2020
Tomoharu Mori, Hirofumi Kurokawa and Fumio Ohtake
College of Comprehensive Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, School of Economics and Management and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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labor supply, net wage illusion, tax aversion

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Why are Cabinet Supporters Happy?

ISER Discussion Paper No. 923
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Feb 2015
Yoshiro Tsutsui, Shoko Yamane and Fumio Ohtake
Kyoto Bunkyo University, Kinki University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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happiness, cabinet supporter, Oaxaca decomposition, Japan

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Asking about Changes in Happiness in a Daily Web Survey

ISER Discussion Paper No. 813
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Jul 2011
Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake
Kyoto Bunkyo University and Osaka University - Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research
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change in happiness, Easterlin paradox, daily web survey, adaptation