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:
Ecole Polytechnique (CREST)
Fields of interest:
Development Economics, Urban Economics
Supervisor:
Benoit Schmutz-Bloch
Paper:
The Informality Trade-Off: Wages and Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 1-A: Job Market Session I
University:
Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Fields of interest:
Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics
Supervisor:
Sarani Saha, Debayan Pakrashi
Paper:
Identity Assimilation: Impact of Conflict and Partition on the Giving Behaviors of Refugees and Natives in West Bengal
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 1-A: Job Market Session I
University:
University of Hohenheim
Fields of interest:
Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Supervisor:
Aderonke Osikominu
Paper:
Infrastructure and Business Taxation
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 1-A: Job Market Session I
University:
Chonnam National University
Fields of interest:
Labor Economics, Education Economics, Development Economics, Migration, Inequality, Labor Market Automation
Supervisor:
Chanyoung Lee
Paper:
A Dual-Focus Approach to Gender Disparities in the Labor Market: How Different are Advanced Asian Economies?
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 2-A: Job Market Session II
University:
Uppsala University
Fields of interest:
Labor Economics; Economcis of Education
Supervisor:
Oskar Nordström Skans, Lena Hensvik
Paper:
How IT Specialized Majors Pay Off: Evidence from the IT Industry Shocks
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 2-A: Job Market Session II
University:
Hitotsubashi University
Fields of interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economics of Education
Supervisor:
Takashi Kurosaki
Paper:
Peer Effects on College Choice: Evidence from Affirmative Action in China
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 2-A: Job Market Session II
University:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fields of interest:
Labor Economics, Family Economics
Supervisor:
Naijia Guo, Ning Zhang and Yifan Zhang
Paper:
Childbirth and Welfare Inequality: The Role of Bargaining Power and Intrahousehold Allocation
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 3-A: Job Market Session III
University:
Monash University
Fields of interest:
Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Labour Economics, Gender Economics
Supervisor:
Liang Choon Wang, Birendra Rai, Claudio Labanca
Paper:
Breaking Ties: Experimental Evidence on Subtle Discrimination
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 3-A: Job Market Session III
University:
Monash University
Fields of interest:
Health Economics, Labour Economics, Education Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor:
Liang Choon Wang, David Johnston, Rachel Knott, Sonja de New
Paper:
Impacts on Workers from the Shutdown of a National Automotive Manufacturing Industry
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 3-A: Job Market Session III
University:
The University of Tokyo
Fields of interest:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor:
Stacey H Chen
Paper:
Compulsory Military Service and Opinions Toward Cross-strait Relations: Evidence from Taiwan’s 2013 Military Reform
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 4-A: Job Market Session IV
University:
Hitotsubashi University
Fields of interest:
Political Economy, International Trade, and Development Economics
Supervisor:
Kensuke Teshima, Chiaki Moriguchi
Paper:
Corruption and the Allocation of Subsidies in China: the Role of Hometown Preference
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 4-A: Job Market Session IV
University:
PhD from the University of Padova
Postdoc at University College London
Fields of interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Education, Gender Norms, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Supervisor:
Lorenzo Rocco, Marco Bertoni
Paper:
The Legacy of Socialism and Female Labor Supply in Modernizing Vietnam
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 5-A: Job Market Session V
University:
University of Gothenburg
Fields of interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy, Development Economics, Labor Economics
Supervisor:
Randi Hjalmarsson, Andreea Mitrut
Paper:
Courtroom Surveillance: Evidence from a State Intervention in the Courts
Presentation session :
Parallel Session 5-A: Job Market Session V