Ritsu Kitagawa
Ph.D. Student in Business Economics
Columbia University
Hi there! I am a Ph.D. student at Columbia University's Department of Economics and Columbia Business School. I study personnel and organizational economics primarily using personnel records provided by large companies in Japan. Before joining Columbia, I received my B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan).
Email: ritsu.kitagawa@columbia.edu
Upcoming Presentations:
Jul 29-30, 2025. NBER Japan Project Meeting 2025, Tokyo (ADB Institute).
Presentation Title: "The Value of Drinking Bosses: Evidence from a Large Manufacturing Company."June 20-24, 2025. WEAI 100th Annual Conference, San Francisco (Marriott Marquis).
Presentation Title: "The Value of Drinking Bosses: Evidence from a Large Manufacturing Company."May 8-9, 2025. Colloquium on Personnel Economics 2025, Trondheim (NTNU).
Presentation Title: "The Value of Drinking Bosses: Evidence from a Large Manufacturing Company."Dec 13, 2024. Asian and Australian Society of Labour Economics 2024 Conference, Bangkok (Chulalongkorn U.).
Presentation Title: "Bait and Switch in the Japanese Rental Housing Market."