Empirical Analysis of Agricultural Households in the Pre-war PeriodJapan: A Panel Data Approach

本文构建了战前日本农户面板数据库。从经济史、农业经济学和发展经济学的角度分析农户行为。我们特别研究了战前时期农户的债务问题和战时的粮食控制问题。这些研究成果在学术会议上发表，并在学术期刊上发表。在发展经济学领域，当前发展中国家的农户面临气候冲击和商品价格波动等各种风险，他们创造的制度安排可能类似于战前日本的那些功能。

We construct the panel data base of agricultural households in the Pre-war Period Japan. We analyze agricultural household behavior from the viewpoints of economic history, agricultural economics and development economics. In particular, we investigate the debt problem in agricultural household in the pre-war period and the food control issues in the war-time. The results of these researches are presented at the academic conferences and published in academic journals. In the field of development economics, agricultural households in the current developing countries, facing various risks such as climate shock and commodity price volatility, create institutional arrangements that might resemble those functions in the pre-war Japan.