Research
WORKING PAPERS:
Kamada, Takuma. “Blessing or Curse for Organized Crime? The Long-term Effects of the Energy Transition from Coal to Oil on the Yakuza.”
Kamada, Takuma. “From Pill to Poverty: Consequences of an Abuse-deterrent Opioid Policy on Concentrated Poverty in Neighborhoods.”
New version coming soon!
Ikeuchi, Rio and Takuma Kamada. “Beyond Absolute Numbers: the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Minority's Relative Rank in Size on Residential Segregation.”
Kamada, Takuma. “Black Flight? The Emergence of Crack Cocaine and Black Suburbanization.”
American Society of Criminology 2019 Gene Carte Student Paper Competition, 2nd place, under the title: “The Emergence of Crack Cocaine, the Nature of Violence, and Enduring Effects on Suburbanization”
Hoshino, Tetsuya and Takuma Kamada. “Enforcement against Organized Crime Increases Organized Fraud: Evidence from the Yakuza.”
New version coming soon!
PUBLICATIONS:
Yamasaki, Lisa, Takuma Kamada, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Yuya Takane, Ko Nakajima, Kazuki Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, Yoonhee Kim, and Masahiro Hashizume. 2024. “Heat-related Mortality and Ambulance Transport After a Power Outage in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.” Environmental Epidemiology.
Kamada, Takuma. 2022. “The Family Consequences of Terrorism: The Effects of the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack on Marital Formation and Dissolution.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
Matsubayashi, Tetsuya, and Takuma Kamada. 2021. “The Great East Japan Earthquake and Suicide: The Long-term Consequences and Underlying Mechanisms.” Preventive Medicine.
Hoshino, Tetsuya and Takuma Kamada. 2020. “Third-Party Policing Approaches against Organized Crime: an Evaluation of the Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. (Pre-print Version)
Nguyen, Holly, Takuma Kamada, and Anke Ramakers. 2020. “On the Margins: Considering the Relationship between Informal Work and Reoffending.” Justice Quarterly.
前田豊・鎌田拓馬. 2019.「Synthetic Control Methodを用いた個別事例の因果効果の識別」『理論と方法』(Maeda, Yutaka and Takuma Kamada. 2019. “Causal Inference with a Single-treated Case using the Synthetic Control Method.” Sociological Theory and Methods.)
Gavrilova, Evelina, Takuma Kamada, and Floris Zoutman. 2019. “Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on U.S Crime.” The Economic Journal.
2019 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize at the Royal Economic Society.
Kamada, Takuma and Hajime Katayama. 2014. “Team Performance and Within-Team Salary Disparity: An Analysis of Nippon Professional Baseball.” Economics Bulletin.