Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum)
| Date&Time | Friday, June 29, 2018, 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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| Place | Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduates, and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | Japanese |
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| Speaker | Mayo MORIMOTO |
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| Affiliation | Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
| Topic | The Effect of Coal Mine Electrification: Evidence from Japan in the 1900s |
| Abstract | This paper studies the effect of electrification in the Japanese coal mining industry in the 1900s, which were rapidly growing. Since Japan had only poor electricity grid at that time, the electrification meant that factories including coal mines equipped their own private power generation facilities. We find that the electrification had statistically zero effects on miners' wages, while it considerably improved productivity and raised the profit rates using difference-in-differences estimation. |