Working papers

• When Offshoring Threatens Jobs: Lifelong Education and Occupation Choice (joint with Lars Skipper). Revision requested by the Journal of Labor Economics.

• Commuting Zones in Japan (joint with Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Yukiko U. Saito). Revision requested by the Japanese Economic Review.
  • Press coverage: VoxEU

• Employers’ Unilateral Settlement of Dismissal Disputes (joint with Ryo Kambayashi and Kohei Kawaguchi).

• Rails, Risks, and Resilience: A Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium Model with Natural Disaster.

Work in progress

• Monopsony in a Two-sided Matching Market (joint with Suk Joon Son and Shintaro Yamaguchi)

• Robots on Sale: The Effect of Investment Promotion on Robot Adoption and Employment. (joint with Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko U. Saito).

Selected Publications & Accepted Papers

• Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share. (joint with Yukiko U. Saito). Accepted by the Review of Economics and Statistics.
  • Slides
• Adachi, D. (2025). Elasticity of Substitution between Robots and Workers: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Robot Price Data. Journal of Monetary Economics. 152, 2025, 103782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103782
  • Previously circulated as “Robots and Wage Polarization: The Effects of Robot Capital across Occupations.” (Job market paper version)
  • Best paper award at the 19th GEP/CEPR Annual Postgraduate Conference.
• Adachi, D., Kawaguchi, D., & Saito, Y. U. (2024). Robots and employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017. Journal of Labor Economics, 42(2), 591-634. https://doi.org/10.1086/723205
  • Final working paper version. Replication files.
  • Press coverage: VoxEU, World Economic Forum.
• Adachi, D., Nakata, H., Sawada, Y., & Sekiguchi, K. (2023). Adverse selection and moral hazard in corporate insurance markets: Evidence from the 2011 Thailand floods. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 205, 376-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.11.027
  • Final working paper version.