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Kengo Igei

Last updated : May 10, 2024

Project associate professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Representative Director, Center for Evidence Co-creation

Areas of Expertise

Applied econometrics
Economics of Education

Bio
Kengo Igei is a project associate professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. He earned his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Tokyo in 2017. He was a researcher at Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute, and at a consulting firm before assuming his current position in 2021. He founded a non-profit corporation, Center for Evidence Co-creation, in 2023.

Research Program
Comprehensive empirical analysis of children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills

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Maruyama, T., & Igei, K. (2023) Community-wide support for primary students to improve foundational literacy and numeracy: Empirical evidence from Madagascar, Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
Kurokawa, H., Igei, K., Kitsuki, A., Kurita, K., Managi, S., Nakamuro, M., & Sakano, A. (2023) Improvement impact of nudges incorporated in environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, Journal of Environmental Management, 325, 116612.
Takahashi R., Igei K., Tsugawa Y., & Nakamuro M. (2023) The effect of silent eating during lunchtime at schools on the COVID-19 outbreaks, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 23-E-068.
Maruyama, T., & Igei, K. (2023) Developing collective impact to improve foundational learning: Evidence from Madagascar after the COVID-19 pandemic shock, JICA Ogata Research Institute Discussion Paper No.15.
Maruyama, T., & Igei, K. (2023) Scaling up interventions to improve basic reading: Evidence from Madagascar after the COVID-19 pandemic shock on education, JICA Ogata Research Institute Discussion Paper No.4.
Igei K., Kurokawa H., Iseki M., Kitsuki A., Kurita K., Managi S., Nakamuro M., & Sakano A. (2022) Nudges to increase the effectiveness of environmental education: New evidence from a field experiment, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 22-E-111.
Igei, K., Takio, K., Aoyagi, K., & Takasaki, Y. (2021) Vocational training for demobilized ex-combatants with disabilities in Rwanda, Journal of Development Effectiveness 13(4): 360-384.
Yuki, T., & Igei, K. (2020) School autonomy and learning outcomes in Burkina Faso and Senegal in Mikiko Nishimura (ed.) Community participation with schools in developing countries: Towards equitable and inclusive basic education for all, Routledge.
Igei, K. (2020) Does learning the social model improve behavior towards persons with disabilities? A randomized experiment for taxi drivers in South Africa, JICA Research Institute Working Paper 204.
Suzuki, A., & Igei, K. (2019) Does efficient provision of business development services yield better results for SMEs?: Evidence from a networking project in Thailand, Journal of Development Effectiveness, 1–27.
Igei, K. (2018) Were the adverse effects of disability on employment mitigated during 2002-2015 in South Africa?: A pseudo-panel approach, JICA Research Institute Working Paper 168.
Igei, K. (2017) Untangling disability and poverty: A matching approach using large-scale data in South Africa, JICA Research Institute Working Paper 142.
Igei, K., & Yuki, T. (2015). Determinants of school enrollment of girls in rural Yemen: Parental aspirations and attitudes toward girls’ education, JICA Research Institute Working Paper 107.

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