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The 172nd meeting jointly organized with International Public Policy Seminar
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Date | 2025.11.21 Fri 13:30 - 15:00 |
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How to apply | Please contact Ms. Kitabayashi to the email address below |
Contact | Ms.Kitabayashi at the Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
The Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organizations, OEIO, meets every month to exchange research ideas on institutional and organizational economics. Participants include both people specialized in theoretical research and those in empirical research. Topics of meetings might be about microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, or economic history..., whatever on institutional and organizational economics.
Presenter： Susumu Cato (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
Title：“Long-run Evolution of Gini Inequality in Japan, 1722–1840” (joint work with Masaki Nakabayashi)
Abstract: This paper investigates the long-run evolution of income inequality in Tokugawa Japan. In particular, we examine the impact of a tax reform implemented in the early eighteenth century. The reform contributed to a reduction in inequality between social classes, notably improving the position of the “middle class,” consisting of relatively wealthy villagers. To address the limited availability of detailed income data, we employ a decomposability approach to inequality measurement.