| Norwegian School of Economics | Post-doctoral Researcher | September 2022- |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole | Post-doctoral Researcher | September 2020- August 2022 |
| Bocconi University | Post-doctoral Researcher | September 2019- July 2020 |
| Hitotsubashi University | Postdoctoral Researcher | July-August 2019 |
| University of California, Davis | Ph.D. in Economics | May 2019 |
| University of Tokyo | M.A. in Economics | March 2013 |
| Keio University | B.A. in Economics | March 2011 |
Economic History, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Kumon, Yuzuru (2021) ``The Labor Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes and the Work Year in Japan, 1610-1890'' Forthcoming, Journal of Economic History
Kumon, Yuzuru (2020) ``Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography, and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-industrial East Asia, 1300–-1800'' (PhD Summary) Journal of Economic History , 80 (2), 589--592
Kumon, Yuzuru and Saleh, Mohamed ``The Middle-Eastern Marriage Pattern? Malthusian Dynamics in Nineteenth-Century Egypt'' Accepted at Economic History Review
Other Papers
Kumon, Yuzuru ``How Landownership Equality Created a Low Wage Society: Pre-industrial Japan, 1600-1870'' R&R at Journal of Economic History
Kumon, Yuzuru ``The Deep Roots of Inequality'' Submitted, IAST Working Paper 125
Kumon, Yuzuru ``Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Rural England'' IAST Working Paper no. 124
Kumon, Yuzuru and Sakai, Kazuho ``Women's Wages and Empowerment: Japan, 1600-1890'' NHH Working Paper SAM 18/2022
Kumon, Yuzuru ``The Benefit of Shocks? Risk and Living Standards in Early Modern Japan, 1600-1868''
Kumon, Yuzuru ``An Efficient Industrialization? The Stuctural Transformation in Prewar Japan''
Kumon, Yuzuru, Saleh, Mohamed and Puschmann, Paul ``Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Egypt'' Kumon, Yuzuru, Sakai, Kazuho and Takashima, Masanori ``Who Owned Land in Feudal Japan?''
2021:Zurich FRESH conference; LSE Asia Economic History; EHS Annual Conference; Hitotsubashi University; Summer Meeting for Young Economists; Meeting in Economic History, Agen
2020: Utrecht University; Annual Meeting of the Danish Society for Economic and Social History; University of Tokyo; Economic History Association Conference; Queen's University Belfast, Cambridge University, Economic History Society Online Session
2019: Economic History Association Annual Conference Dissertation Session, Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PACDEV), University of Southern California; The Annual Cliometrics Conference, Paper Session; Waseda University; Keio University; Kobe University; Osaka Univeristy; Hitotsubashi University; European Historical Economics Society conference (EHES), Paris
2018: Oxford Graduate Student Seminar; Warwick Economic History Workshop; LSE Graduate Student Seminar; All UC Graduate Student Workshop Hitotsubashi University, Economic Development Workshop; University of Tokyo, Economic History
Seminar; The Annual Cliometrics Conference, Graduate Student Session
2017: Economic History Association Annual Meeting 2017, Poster Session; Hitotsubashi University, Family
and Living Standards in Tokugawa Japan; Association for Asian Studies, New Frontiers in Asian Economic History;
2016: All-UC Economic History Conference, One Hundred Flowers;
Masters Course: Globalization, Divergence, and Inequality in Historical Perspective
Undergraduate Courses: Economic History, Game Theory, Intermediate Econometrics, Intermediate Microeconomics
Graduate Courses: Cross Section Econometrics, Econometric Foundations, Microeconomics
Asia-Pacific Prize in Economic History for best dissertation in Asia-Pacific economic history, Australian Economic History Society, 2022
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for best dissertation in non US or Canadian Economic History, Economic History Association, 2019
Sokoloff Fellowship ($15,000), Economic History Association, 2018-2019
Economics Department Research Support Award ($1500), UC Davis, 2018-2019
UC Davis, Dissertation Improvement Support Award ($500), UC Davis, 2017-2018
Graduate Student Fellowship ($3750), All-UC Group in Economic History, 2017-2018
UC Davis, Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship , UC Davis, Fall 2016
Long Term Foreign Studies Award, Japan Student Services Organization, 2013-2016
Languages: Japanese (native), English (native), German (basic), French (basic)
Gregory Clark (Chair):
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
gclark@ucdavis.edu
Christopher M. Meissner
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
cmmeissner@ucdavis.edu
Mohamed Saleh:
Toulouse School of Economics
Universite Capitole 1
mohamed.saleh@tse-fr.eu