NEWS

2024

Article in Media August 11, 2024

"Municipalities at Risk of Extinction" Even Though They Are Far From Extinct Sankei Shimbun. August 11, 2024.

Interview June 28, 2024

The relationship between labor market mobility, wage growth, and innovation in our country. (Kondo, K.). WHITE PAPER ON LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM IN JAPAN, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

RIETI Special Report May 7, 2024

Reexamining the Eventual Extinction of Japan's Municipalities: What Do 40-years of Recent Data Tell Us? (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Update (en) | RIETI Special Report (jp)

Web App April 26, 2024

Percentage Change in Young Female Population 1980-2020. In response to the news "Eventual Extinction of Japan's municipalities" by the Population Strategy Council, I developed the web app that visualizes the percentage change in the female population aged 20-39. Shiny App (jp) | Web App

RIETI Policy Discussion Paper April 19, 2024

A proposal for a regional attractiveness index based on human flow data. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Discussion Paper No. 24-P-005, (Japanese) (2024). Shiny App (jp)

RIEB Discussion Paper March 25, 2024

Distinguishing the urban wage premium from human capital externalities: Evidence from Mexico. (Kondo, K.). RIEB Discussion Paper Series No.2024-09, (2024)

Award March 9, 2024

Visualization System of Human Mobility Based Regional Attractiveness (人流データによる地域魅力度可視化システム). (Kondo, K.). Bronze Award (General Category) in 2023 Urban Data Challenge with 2023 Infrastructure Data Challenge. Link (jp)

Web App February 27, 2024

Administrative Boundaries in Japan. This web app visualizes historical administrative boundaries in Japan, which is the supplementary material of Kondo (2023, "Municipality-level panel data and municipal mergers in Japan"). Shiny App (en) | Web App | Data

RIETI Special Report February 2, 2024

Revitalization from earthquake disaster and tourism policy in the era of population decline: A proposal for evaluation and improvement of travel discount program to promote tourism to the Hokuriku region by the regional attractiveness index. (Kondo, K.) RIETI Special Report (jp)

Web App January 2, 2024

Regional Attractiveness Index Visualization System. Updated: The regional attractiveness index, proposed by Kondo (2023, RIEB DP 2023-07), was calculated for all municipalities. Shiny App (jp) | Web App

Web AppJanuary 1, 2024

Regional Attractiveness Index in the Kansai Region of Japan. Updated: The shiny web app was updated as supplementary material of Kondo (2023, RIEB DP 2023-07). Shiny App | Web App

2023

RIETI Discussion Paper December 25, 2023

Local export spillovers within and between industries in Japan. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Discussion Paper No. 23-E-090, (2023).

RIEB Discussion Paper December 13, 2023

Measuring the attractiveness of trip destinations: A study of the Kansai region of Japan. (Kondo, K.). RIEB Discussion Paper No. DP2023-07, Revised, (2023).

Web App November 10, 2023

Regional Attractiveness Index. This shiny app visualizes the regional attractiveness index, estimated from the Mobile Spatial Statistics® of NTT DOCOMO. The concept is proposed in Kondo (2023, RIEB DP 2023-07). Shiny App | Web App

Article in Media April 13, 2023

Future of Cities Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis. FORE, Vol. 127 (2023), Real Estate Companies Association of Japan. E-Book (jp) | PDF (jp)

Web App March 31, 2023

Regional Attractiveness Index. This shiny app visualizes the regional attractiveness index, estimated from the 2010 Person Trip Survey in the Kansai region. The concent is proposed in Kondo (2023, RIEB DP 2023-07). Shiny App (jp) | Web App

RIEB Discussion Paper March 14, 2023

Measuring the attractiveness of trip destinations: A study of the Kansai region. (Kondo, K.). RIEB Discussion Paper No. DP2023-07, (2023).

RIETI Technical Paper February 10, 2023

Municipality-level panel data and municipal mergers in Japan. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Technical Paper No. 23-T-001, (2023).

Comment in Media February 8, 2023:

Comment: "Japan offers families tens of thousands of dollars to say goodbye to Tokyo" (Chris Corday). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News, World, January 28, 2023. CBC News.

RIETI Column January 18, 2023

Rousseau's Philosophy and EBPM. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Column.

2022

RIETI Policy Discussion Paper December 27, 2022

Ex ante evaluation of migration subsidy: Evidence from Japan. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Discussion Paper No. 22-P-031, (2022).

RIETI Policy Discussion Paper November 9, 2022

Monopolar concentration in Tokyo and promotion of urban-to-rural migration (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Discussion Paper No. 19-P-006, Revised (2022).

RIETI EBPM Report December 13, 2022

Economics of Policy Implementation. (Kondo, K.). RIETI EBPM Report .

RIETI Policy Discussion Paper November 9, 2022

Monopolar concentration in Tokyo and promotion of urban-to-rural migration (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Discussion Paper No. 19-P-006, Revised (2022).

Web App October 28, 2022

Migration Simulator. This shiny app examines the costs and benefits of interregional migration in Japan. Shiny App (en) | Shiny App (jp) | Web App

Stata Software July 11, 2022

ESTQUANT: Stata module to implement Quantile approach by Combes et al. (2012) (Kondo, K.). Statistical Software Components S458343, Boston College Department of Economics, Revised.

RIETI Technical Paper May 13, 2022

Municipality-level panel data and municipal mergers in Japan (Kondo, K.). RIETI Technical Paper 19-T-001, Revised (2022).

RIETI Discussion Paper March 24, 2022

Spatial gaps in minimum wages and job search of young workers (Hamaguchi, N. & Kondo, K.). RIETI Discussion Paper No. 22-E-022 (2022).

2021

RIETI Discussion Paper October 19, 2021

The spillover effects of compact city policy on incumbent retailers: Evidence from Toyama city (Iwata, S. & Kondo, K.). RIETI Discussion Paper No. 21-E-085 (2021).

2020

NEW May 12, 2020

Started my new webpage on GitHub.

2019

RIETI Policy Discussion Paper April 15, 2019

Monopolar concentration in Tokyo and promotion of urban-to-rural migration. (Kondo, K.). RIETI Policy Discussion Paper No. 19-P-006 (2019).

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2014

NEW April 2, 2014

Started my new webpage on Google Site. I started my research career at RIETI. I obtained Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University in March 2014.