Takanao Tanaka

Takanao Tanaka

PhD candidate at UC Berkeley ARE (Agricultural and Resource Economics). My research interests are environmental and energy economics, public economics and industrial organization.

I am on the 2026-27 job market.

CV | Google Scholar | takanao_tanaka@berkeley.edu

Job Market Paper (coming soon):

Electricity Supply Shocks and Manufacturing: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, with Daiji Kawaguchi

Presentation: NBER Japan Project Meeting, Camp Resources, LSE Environmental Camp

Publications:

Air pollution and the airborne diseases: Evidence from China and Japan, with Guojun He and Yuhang Pan

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025

Appendix | data and code

Energy saving may kill: evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, with Guojun He

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023

Appendix | data and code

Short-and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-COVID-19 mortality in China, with Jinlei Qi et al.

Nature Human Behaviour, 2022

Appendix | data and code

Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, with Shohei Okamoto

Nature Human Behaviour, 2021

Appendix | data and code

The short-term impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China, with Guojun He and Yuhang Pan

Nature Sustainability, 2020

Appendix | data and code

Works in progress:

Combating Noise Pollution, with Takeru Sugasawa and Shinsaku Takikawa

Presentation: ASSA Annual Meeting, IPSWD (Columbia)

Environmental Regulation, Cost, Price and Welfare

Approved as a U.S. Census Bureau research project

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