As of October 2020, Toru KITAGAWA will be Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL). He is currently Research Staff at the Center for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP) and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also an Affiliate in the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scaleís (Y-RISE) network on "Evidence Aggregation and External Validity". He has a number of editorial activities: he is notably Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics, an Editorial Board Member for The Review of Economic Studies, Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometric Methods and of The Japanese Economic Review.

His research expertise covers econometrics theory with a wide range of economics applications, causal inference, decision theory, and experimental economics. He has published articles in world-leading journals including Econometrica and Journal of Econometrics. He is currently the Principle Investigator for his project Econometrics for Public Policy: Sampling, Estimation, Decision and Applications that was awarded a prestigious ERC Starting grant.

Toru KITAGAWA will present a paper, joint with Shosei SAKAGUCHI and Aleksey TETENOV, at the next Departmental Seminar via Zoom on the theme:

Constrained Classification and Policy Learning (Abstract, PDF 145.73 KB)

More about Toru KITAGAWA and his research

Location: Zoom
Time: 2:45 PM