Atsushi Yamagishi

Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Atsushi Yamagishi is an associate professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. He is also a project researcher at the Center for Real Estate Innovation, University of Tokyo, and an affiliated scholar of the Global Japan Lab, Princeton University. His research covers topics in urban and spatial economics, labor economics, public economics, and Japanese economy. Prior to joining Hitotsubashi University, he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2024.

Recent work by Atsushi Yamagishi

The hidden cost of discrimination: Why land in Japan’s former outcaste neighbourhoods still costs less 150 years later

The land prices of the former outcaste neighbourhoods in Japan remain substantially lower, suggesting persistent stigma despite the legal abolition of discrimination more than a century ago.

Institutions & Political Economy

Atsushi Yamagishi Yasuhiro Sato

Published 29.10.25

City structures are remarkably resilient: Lessons from Hiroshima after the bomb

Agglomeration economies and the coordination of people’s expectations were pivotal to the recovery of central Hiroshima following the atomic bombing.

Migration & Urbanisation

Kohei Takeda Atsushi Yamagishi

Published 04.07.25

Atsushi Yamagishi

Recent work by Atsushi Yamagishi

The hidden cost of discrimination: Why land in Japan’s former outcaste neighbourhoods still costs less 150 years later

City structures are remarkably resilient: Lessons from Hiroshima after the bomb