GRADUATE STUDENT | YUMIKO SHIMABUKURO
Biography | Papers
Yumiko Shimabukuro is a PhD candidate in the department of political science at MIT. Her main research areas are comparative social welfare, the political economy of institutions, and state-society relations. She is currently completing her dissertation (Making Democracy, Fighting Poverty: The Japanese Safety Net in Comparative Perspective), which examines the origins of democratic institutions and how their development influences redistributive policies. Her research has been funded by the Center for International Studies and the Social Science Research Council. Prior to joining MIT, she obtained her master's degree at Columbia University, where she specialized in international economics. She later worked as a financial analyst at Nomura Securities & Research in New York.
