JOB MARKET CANDIDATES
In this year's event AASLE will facilitate job market sessions that offer candidates interested in the Asian and Australasian market, a platform to present their job market paper. The job market sessions will take place during the parallel sessions and will be open to recruiters. In this page you can find the key information of each candidate.
University:
Korea University in South Korea
Fields of interest:
Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor:
Kanghyock Koh (Korea University)
Paper:
Short-Term Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from South Korea’s Public Pension Programs
Presentation session :
16:00 - 16:30 Thursday, 7th December, 2023
Venue: Room 301 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
University of Tokyo
Fields of interest:
Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Causal Inference
Supervisor:
Yasuyuki Sawada, Yoshito Takasaki
Paper:
Impact of Landmine Risk on Human Capital Accumulation in a Post-conflict Country
Presentation session :
9:00 - 9:30 Saturday, 9th December, 2023
Venue: Room 302 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
Columbia University
Fields of interest:
Development, Political Economy, Public Economics, Labor Economics
Supervisor:
Suresh Naidu
Paper:
Organized Crime, Local Politicians, and State Capacity
Presentation session :
10:00 - 10:30 Saturday, 9th December, 2023
Venue: Room 302 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fields of interest:
Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy
Supervisor:
Heather Royer
Paper:
The self-selection of information and the belief update: An experiment on COVID-19 vaccine information
Presentation session :
12:00 - 12:30 Friday, 8th December, 2023
Venue: Room 301 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Fields of interest:
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics
Supervisor:
Tirthatanmoy Das
Paper:
Health Coverage and Educational Investments
Presentation session :
14:30 - 15:00 Friday, 8th December, 2023
Venue: Room 301 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
National Chengchi University
Fields of interest:
Labour, Migration, Public Health, Urban
Supervisor:
Shu-Heng Chen
Paper:
Double Burden: Gender Inequalities Among Migrants in Vietnam’s Labor Market
Presentation session :
9:00 - 9:30 Friday, 8th December, 2023
Venue: Room 301 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
National Taiwan University
Fields of interest:
​Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics
Supervisor:
Tzu-Ting Yang and Hsien-Ming Lien
Paper:
The Effect of Increasing Pension Age on Retirement and Saving Behavior: Evidence from Taiwan
Presentation session :
11:30 - 12:00 Saturday, 9th December, 2022
Venue: Room 302 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
Monash University
Fields of interest:
Economic History, Labor Economics, Industrial Policy, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor:
Sascha O. Becker, Paul A. Raschky
Paper:
Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant Missionaries, Local Churches, and Literacy in Colonial Korea
Presentation session :
9:30 - 10:00 Saturday, 9th December, 2022
Venue: Room 302 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fields of interest:
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education
Supervisor:
Naijia Guo, Junsen Zhang, Ning Zhang
Paper:
Migration Restrictions and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap: The Role of Wage Setting and Sorting
Presentation session :
11:00 - 11:30 Friday, 8th December, 2023
Venue: Room 301 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)
University:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fields of interest:
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics and Innovation
Supervisor:
Yifan Zhang , Lingsheng Meng
Paper:
Estimating Capital-Labor Substitution in China: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Presentation session :
11:00 - 11:30 Saturday, 9th December, 2022
Venue: Room 302 (3F College of Social Sciences Bldg)