Hitoshi Shigeoka
Hitoshi Shigeoka is a Professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) at the University of Tokyo and an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. His research lies at the intersection of health economics and behavioral economics. This includes analyses of how patients respond to the price of health care, how physicians respond to the financial incentives, how the expansion of health insurance coverage affects the use and supply of health care, how adverse shocks such as earthquakes affect people’s risk preferences and risk-taking behavior, how the repeal of federal prohibition affects infant mortality and late-life mortality, and how the introduction of face-mask mandates affects the case growth of COVID-19 in Canada. He is on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and Associate Editor for the Journal of Health Economics and the Japanese Economic Review. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 2012.
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