Faculty of Economics, Kanagawa University
3-27-1 Rokkakubashi Kanagawa-ku Yokohama 221-8686, Japan

siwata (at) kanagawa-u (dot) ac (dot) jp
https://shinichiro-iwata.github.io/

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Author identifiers:

• ORCID: 0000-0002-3161-7180
• Scopus Author ID: 19638451700
• ResearcherID: AAZ-5353-2020

Other identifiers (in Japanese):

• KAKEN
• researchmap
• CiNii Articles | Books | Dissertations
• Profile website at Kanagawa Uni.
• GitHub

Degree:
Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, Japan, 2002

Research Fields:
Housing and Urban Economics

Research Projects:

• The urban economics of inducements and regulations
• Theoretical, empirical and policy research for effective utilization of existing housing stock
• Evidence-based policy making for regional revitalization [Link]
• Social differentiation in later life: exploring the interaction between wealth, education and retirement trajectories in Japan and the UK [Link]
  [2019 Tokyo workshop] | [2021 Bristol online workshop]

Recent Working Papers:

• The spillover effects of compact city policy on incumbent retailers: Evidence from Toyama City. [Abstract]
• Housing inheritance, financial assistance, and reciprocal interdependence. [Abstract]

Recent Publications:

• Labor supply response to home value shocks: Evidence from Japan. Journal of Housing Economics, Forthcoming, 2025.
• Housing wealth and consumption among elderly Japanese. Housing Studies, 37(3), 2022. [Abstract]

Teaching (in Japanese):

• Microeconomics
  
  
  • Microeconomics Workbook [Link]
• Urban Economics
  
  
  • Geospatial Data Visualization with R [Tutorial] （Rによる地理空間データの可視化）
  • Lecture Notes on Urban Economics Insights [Notes] （都市経済学講義ノート）
• Seminar
  
  
  • Iwata zemi. [Box]