| 14 July 2022, Thursday |
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| 9:00 – 9:15 am |
Opening Remarks | Albert F. Park, Chief Economist and
Director General, Economic Research and
Regional Cooperation Department, ADB Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean, ADBI |
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| 9:15 –10:00 am |
First Keynote Address | Social Protection in Developing Countries: Lessons from Indonesia Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South‐East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area, Harvard Kennedy School |
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| 10:15-12:15 pm | Sessions 1A-1D |
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Parallel Session 1A: Education I | 1. | How Do Teachers’ Unions Influence Policy? The Role of Power Politics and Expertise in Indonesia | 2. | Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh |
3. | Can Compulsory Schooling Foster National Identity? Evidence from Chinese Minorities | 4. | Does Higher Parental Involvement Lead to Learning Gains? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia |
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Parallel Session 1B: Labor and Demographics I | 1. | High-Tech Clusters, Labor Demand, and Inequality: Evidence from Job Postings in China | 2. | Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation |
3. | Returns to Mandarin: A Quantitative Analysis of the Language Barriers in China's Internal Trade and Migration |
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Parallel Session 1C: Infrastructure, Poverty, and Inequality | 1. | Electricity Services and COVID-19: Understanding the Role of Infrastructure Improvements and Institutional Innovations | 2. | Financial Crises and Inequality: New Evidence from a Panel of 17 Advanced Economies |
3. | Structural Transformation and Inequality: Does Trade Openness Matter? |
4. | Industrial Growth with Poverty Reduction and Equity? Predictions from Nighttime Lights in Vietnam |
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Parallel Session 1D: Gender | 1. | Structural Transformation, Gender, and Modern Development—Evidence from a Multi-Generation Tracking Survey in the Philippines |
2. | The Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from South Korea | 3. | Contemporaneous and Lasting Effects of Electoral Gender Quotas |
4. | Intergenerational Link of Women Employment: Evidence from Indonesia | |||||||||
| 1:15 – 2:00 pm | Second Keynote Address |
Preferences, Behavior, and Welfare Outcomes against Disasters Yasuyuki Sawada, Professor, University of Tokyo and Visiting Fellow, ADBI |
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| 2:15 – 4:15 pm | Sessions 2A-2D |
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| Parallel Session 2A: Environment and Energy I | 1. | Environmental News Emotion and Air Pollution in China | 2. | Effectiveness of Electric Vehicle Subsidies in China: A Panel Study | 3. | How Temperature Affects Firm Output Loss? Evidence from Bangladesh | 4. | Temperature and manufacturing production in India: Plant-level evidence for adaptation strategies |
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| Parallel Session 2B: Monetary and Regional Economics | 1. | On the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Prices in India: A Time-Varying Approach | 2. | Leasing as a Mitigation Channel of Capital Misallocation | 3. | Comparative
Advantage, Endowment Structure and Regional Specialization in China |
4. | Internal Trade in India: Patterns and Determinants | ||||||||||
| Parallel Session 2C: Health, Human Capital, and Welfare | 1. | Nudging by Beauty: Improving Women’s Health Decisions and Well-Being in the Field | 2. | Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale | 3. | The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity and the Mitigating Role of Social Assistance: Panel Data Evidence from Indonesia |
4. | Seasonality and Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh |
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| Parallel Session 2D: Asian Development Review | 1. | Impacts of COVID-19 on Households in ASEAN Countries and Their Implications for Human Capital Development: Medium-Run Impacts and the Role of Government Support | 2. | Climate Risk and Corporate Debt Financing: Evidence from ASEAN | 3. | Predicting Provincial GDP by Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning Methods: Case Study of Thailand | 4. | Not All That It Seems:
Narrowing of Gender Gaps in Employment during the Onset of COVID-19 in
Indonesia |
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15 July 2022, Friday |
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| 9:00 – 9:45 am |
Third Keynote Address | China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labour Supply: The Quantity Myth Xin Meng, Professor, Australian National University and Guest Editor, Asian Development Review Discussant: Albert F. Park, Chief Economist and Director General, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB |
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| 10am -12:00 pm |
Sessions 3A–3D | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | SMEs Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation | 2. | The Impacts of Different COVID-19 Containment Policies on Online Merchants and Recovery: Evidence from Alibaba's Large-Scale Administrative Data |
3. | Cashless Payment and Financial Inclusion | 4. | Rise and Fall of New Technology: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country | |||||||||||||
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1. | Social Protection Expenditure and Growth in the Agricultural Sector in Asia | 2. | Extreme
Weather and Agricultural Input Management in Rural Thailand and Vietnam: Intensify or De-Intensify? |
3. | Natural Disasters and Economic Dynamics: Evidence from the Kerala Floods | 4. | Exploration
of Farm Mechanization among Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Indian States of
Haryana and Bihar |
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Parallel Session 3C: Economic Growth and Infrastructure | 1. | Good Enough for Outstanding Growth: The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective | 2. | Impacts
of Electricity Quality Improvements: Experimental Evidence on Infrastructure
Investment |
3. | An
Empirical Evidence and Proposal on the Spillover Effects of Information and
Communication Technology Infrastructure in India |
4. | The
Institutional Effects of Public–Private Partnerships on Competition |
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Parallel Session 3D: Environment and Energy II |
1. | Natural Disasters and Fiscal Drought | 2. | The Impact of Climate Change on Economic Output in Chile: Past and Future | 3. | Households’ Fuel Choices in the Context of a Decade-Long Load-Shedding Problem in Nepal |
4. | Energy
Storage Policies: Implications for Asia and the Pacific |
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| 1:00 – 3:00 pm |
Sessions
4A–4D |
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| Parallel Session 4A: Labor and Demographics II | 1. | Intergenerational
Transmission of Time Preferences: An Evidence from Rural Thailand |
2. | 'Perversity Trope’ of Labor Reforms in India | 3. | Name Ethnicity and Labor Market Performance |
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| Parallel Session 4B: Poverty and Inequality | 1. | Assessing the Effects of Vulnerability, MGNREGS, and Governance on Poverty |
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3. | Multiple Risks and Poverty: Evidence from Afghanistan | ||||||||||||||
| Parallel Session 4C: Education II | 1. | Who
Benefits and Loses from Large Changes to Student Composition? Assessing Impacts
of Lowering School Admissions Standards in Indonesia |
2. | The Effectiveness of Kindergarten in Promoting Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Indonesia | 3. | Commodity Price Shocks and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indonesia | 4. | The
Effect of School Mergers on Student Performance—A Case Study of India |
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| ParallelSession 4D: Disasters, Agriculture, and Welfare | 1. | Natural Disaster and Local Government Finance: Evidence from Typhoon Haiyan | 2. | Allocation of Humanitarian Aid after a Weather Disaster | 3. | Mobile Phone Network Expansion and Agricultural Income: A Panel Study | 4. | Do Weather Shocks Exacerbate Subnational Income Disparities? Satellite Evidence from the Philippines | ||||||||||||
| 3:15 – 5:15 pm |
Sessions 5A–5C |
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| Parallel Session 5A: Agriculture and Environment II | 1. | The Roles of Perennial Crop Systems on Livelihoods: A Case Study in Dak Lak Province, Central Highlands, Viet Nam | 2. | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Risk Factors for Subclinical Mastitis in Smallholder Dairy Farms in Bangladesh | 3. | The Impact of Agricultural Credit on Farm Yield Risk: Quantile Regression Approach with Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and a Test for the Rank Similarity Condition |
4. | Forecast-Based
Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Extreme Weather Events: Evidence from
a Randomized Controlled Trial in Mongolia |
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| Parallel Session 5B: Gender and Welfare | 1. | Don't
Cross the Line: Bounding the Causal Effect of Hypergamy Violation on Domestic
Violence in India |
2. | Do Natural Disasters Cause Domestic Violence? A Study of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake | 3. | Does Marriage and Motherhood Impact Women’s Participation in Labor Markets in India | 4. | Dynastic
Measures of Intergenerational Mobility with Empirical Evidence from Indonesia |
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| Parallel Session 5C: Finance, Infrastructure, and Governance | 1. | Can
Open Banking Substitute Credit Bureaus? |
2. | Incentives to Manipulate for Public Good: Evidence from a Unique Road Policy in India | 3. | How Altruism Works during a Pandemic: Examining the Roles of Financial Support and Degrees of Individual Altruism on International Remittance | Does
Corruption Discourage Entrepreneurship? |
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| 5:15 – 5:30 pm |
Closing
Remarks |
Joseph E. Zveglich
Jr., Deputy Chief Economist, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation
Department, ADB |
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