Yasuhiro Sato

Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Yasuhiro Sato is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on urban economics and spatial economics, with a particular emphasis on urbanization, culture, and migration. He also works on spillovers caused by urban and regional policies.

Recent work by Yasuhiro Sato

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

Yasuhiro Sato

Recent work by Yasuhiro Sato

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