Takanao Tanaka

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

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

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023

published version | appendix | data and code | working paper

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

Nature Human Behaviour, 2021

published version | appendix | data and code | review info | working paper

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

Nature Sustainability, 2020

published version | appendix | data and code | working paper

Works in progress:

• Authoritarian Control through the Judiciary, with Wenwei Peng

• Electricity shortage and firm responses: evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, with Daiji Kawaguchi

Other Publications:

• National health spending, health-care resources, service utilization, and health outcomes, with Shohei Okamoto and David Canning

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023

• 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, 2021