13 July 2024, Saturday
8:30 am –9:00 am	Registration (Woosuk Economic Hall, Building 223)
9:00 am –9:15 am	Moderator Welcome Remarks Opening Remarks (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	Joseph E. Zveglich Jr., Deputy Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank        Bonggeun Kim, Head of Economics Department, Seoul National University      Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Asian Development Bank Institute
9:15 am –9:45 am	Keynote Speech (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)		Lisa Cameron, Riady Chair of Asian Economics and Business and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
9:45 am –10:00 am	Coffee break (Woosuk Economic  Hall, 1F/3F)
10:00 am –12:00 pm	Sessions 1A-1F
	Parallel Session 1A: Climate Change and Environment I (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Fossil Fuel Subsidies and GHG Emissions:  Firm-level Empirical Evidence from Developing Asia	2	Are Natural Disasters Disastrous for Learning? Evidence from Seven Asian Countries	3	Lead Exposure from Toxic Sites and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Indonesia	4	Air Pollution Policy and Labor Productivity - Economic Benefits from Demand for Clean Air
	Parallel Session 1B: Gender I (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Unintended Effects of Delayed Marriage on Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Cambodia	2	Women's Labor Supply, Decision Making Power, and Cultural Norms: Evidence from Indonesia's Domestic Violence Law	3	Training Intensity and Female Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia during COVID-19 Pandemic	4	Sex Imbalance and Female Resilience: Insights from China’s College Entrance Examinations
	Parallel Session 1C: Labor I (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Prevalent Informality and Labour Allocation	2	Child Labour in India: Long Term Trends and Measurement Issues	3	Meat or Poison? Minimum Wages for Chinese Firms and Workers
	Parallel Session 1D: Macroeconomics and Finance I (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Estimating the Impact of BSP Policy Adjustments on Bank Lending: A Panel VAR Model Approach	2	Disaggregated Inflation Dynamics in Thailand: Which Shocks Matter?	3	Inflation Convergence Dynamics in India: An Analysis of Headline and Core Inflation	4	Inflation: The Macroeconomic Consequence of Terror Activity in Pakistan
	Parallel Session 1E: Digital Economy and Innovation (Room 307, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Identifying Growth Effect of Internet Penetration	2	Investigating the Key Factors Affecting Innovative Capacity in Asian Countries	3	Digital Money Demand and Monetary Policy	4	Inventor Mobility and Firm Innovation
	Parallel Session 1F: Agriculture and Rural Development (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Beyond the Ban – Shedding Light on Smallholders’ Price Vulnerability in Indonesia’s Palm Oil Industry	2	Demand, Impacts and the Consequences of Mis-Designed Crop Insurance: Evidence from Administrative Data of Nationwide Program in Thailand	3	Aging in a Dual Economy: Urban Aging, Massive Migration, and Agricultural Development	4	Shocks and Brave Farmers: Evidence from a Randomized Agricultural Microfinance Experiment in Bangladesh
12:00 pm –12:50 pm	Lunch break (5th Floor, Woosuk Economic Hall)
1:05 pm –1:35 pm	Aging Well in Asia: Asian Development Policy Report presentation (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)
1:45pm –3:45 pm	Sessions 2A-2F
	Parallel Session 2A: Asian Development Review I: Climate Change and Pollution (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Health Effects of Climate Change and Mitigating Effects of Climate Policies: Evidence from Bangladesh	2	Pollution, Information and Migration	3	Exploring the Economic and Non-Economic Determinants of Investments in Renewable Energy
	Parallel Session 2B: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance I (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	How does Corruption Undermine Investment in Learning? Leakages and Inefficiencies in Education Budgets	2	Impact of Terrorism on Consumer Sentiment in Pakistan: A City-Level Analysis	3	The Trickle-Down Effect of Government Debt and Social Unrest	4	Pandemic, Poverty and Policy: Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Shock in Indonesia
	Parallel Session 2C: Education I (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The “Good School” Premium in Housing Prices: A Competitive Schooling Perspective	2	Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries	3	Impact of Landmine Risk on Human Capital Accumulation in a Post-conflict Country	4	The Prevalence and Policy Implications of Between-School Heterogeneity in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from Six Public Education Systems
	Parallel Session 2D:  Labor II (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Global Investment and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Samsung’s Entry in Vietnam	2	Barriers to Labor Migration for the Rural Poor	3	“The profit can’t be compared to the risk.” Examining Decent Work Among Older Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Indonesia	4	The Effect of Energy Prices on Employment: Evidence from a Developing Country
	Parallel Session 2E: Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration I (Room 307, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Remittances, Exchange Rates, and the Role of Financial Development	2	Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows	3	China’s Increasing Global Financial Impact	4	The Value of Trademarks: Micro Evidence from Chinese Exports to Africa
	Parallel Session 2F: Health I (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Taking Health for Granted. Can a Narrative about Living with a Disease Increase Preventive Health Information?	2	Nudge for Sanitation: Experimental Evidence from China	3	Physical, Psychological Distress and Mental Well-Being among Gig Workers in India	4	Health Screening and Selection: Evidence from Biennial Subsidies in South Korea
3:45 pm –4:00 pm	Coffee break (Woosuk Economic Hall, 1F/3F)
4:00 pm –6:00 pm	Sessions 3A-3F
	Parallel Session 3A: Demographics and Gender (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Role of Family Support in the Well-Being of Older People: Evidence from Malaysia and Viet Nam	2	Demographic Aging and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve	3	Healthcare Utilization and Informal Care in the Aging Era: Comparative Analysis of China, Japan, and South Korea
	Parallel Session 3B: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance II (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	“Helping Hand” or “Grabbing Hand”? The Impact of Government Recentralization on Public Administration and Private Investment	2	What Determines Fiscal Multipliers in China? – The Role of Fiscal Structure	3	Economic Resilience: New Evidence	4	Does Deterrence Treatment Have a Dynamic Impact on Tax Compliance? Insights from Experimental Evidence in Indonesia
	Parallel Session 3C: Education II (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Impacts of In-Person School Days on Student Outcomes and Inequality: Evidence from Korean High Schools during the Pandemic	2	Parental Job Loss and the Child’s Educational Outcomes: The Importance of Timing	3	Complementarity between Global Value Chain Activity and Vocational Education: Evidence from Indonesia	4	Mother Tongue-based Education in a Diverse Society Lowers Foundational Skills:  Evidence from the Philippines
	Parallel Session 3D: Poverty and Income Inequality I (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Income Inequality, Civic Participation, and Political Instability	2	ICT Development and Income Inequality: Evidence from Households	3	Public Sector Wage Policy's Impact on Labor Market Inequality: A Natural Experiment
	Parallel Session 3E: Macroeconomics and Finance II (Room 307, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Bank Stability and Market Concentration in the Emerging Markets of the ASEAN	2	The Effect of Financial Technology Development on Commercial Banks’ Profitability: Experimental Evidence in Vietnamese Commercial Banks from 2008 to 2023	3	Macroprudential Policies and Tail Effects on Growth in India	4	Impact of Oil Price and Its Volatility on CPI of Pakistan: Bivariate EGARCH Model
	Parallel Session 3F: Health II (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Metropolitan Area Delineation and Resilience under Public Health Crisis:  Evidence from the Philippines	2	Political Economy of Sanitation in India	3	Does Environment and Health Awareness Matter for Household Fuel Choice? Empirical Evidence from Central Asia
6:45 pm –9:00 pm	Conference Dinner (‘Sarsha’, Dongwongwan Building, Bldg. 113, 3rd floor) Moderator                                      Raeyoon Kang, Professor, Seoul National University
6:45 pm –6:55 pm	Dinner Remarks		Albert Park, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank
6:55 pm –7:25 pm	Keynote Speech		Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development, Peking University

14 July 2023, Sunday
8:30am –9:00 am	Registration  (Woosuk Economic Hall, Building 223)
9:00 am –9:30 am	Moderator Keynote Speech (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)		Dina Azhgaliyeva, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute  Keun Lee, Distinguished Professor, Seoul National University
9:30 am –9:45 am	Coffee break (Woosuk Economic Hall, 1F/3F)
9:45 am –11:45 am	Sessions 4A-4F
	Parallel Session 4A: Asian Development Review II: Inequality, Poverty, and Vulnerability (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Remotely Sensed Spatial Inequality: Luminosity Evidence from Chinese Cities and Counties	2	Perception Towards Income Inequality in the Process of Economic Development: Evidence from International Panel Data	3	Misfortune Seldom Comes Alone: Evidence from the Compounded COVID-19 and Typhoon Disasters in a Developing Country	4	Rip Off the Red Tape: Government-Business Relationship and Corporate Poverty Alleviation Decisions
	Parallel Session 4B: Climate Change and Environment II (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Enterprise Carbon Risk Penalty: Evidence Based on the Perspective of Enterprise Debt Financing Cost	2	Climate Change and Corporate Financial Performance	3	Climate Change and Economic Prosperity: Evidence from a Flexible Damage Function
	Parallel Session 4C: Gender II (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Preferences for Wage Discrimination Against Women	2	Becoming "Co-ed": A Protestant Gift to China	3	The Gender Wage Gap and the Task Structure of Jobs: Evidence from Developing Countries
	Parallel Session 4D: Macroeconomics and Finance III (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Dollar Squeeze and Economic Growth	2	Effectiveness of Inflation Targeting in Emerging and Developing Asia: Panel Evidence	3	Journey to the (North, South, East, and) West: Global Spillovers of Chinese Monetary Policy	4	Transmission of a Liquidity Shock in India: Banks versus Non-Banks
	Parallel Session 4E: Health III (Kojima Conference Room, 2F)	1	The Right Timing Matters: Identifying Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills	2	The Inheritance of Historical Trauma: Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Famine on Mental Health	3	Cigarette Demand in Indonesia with Controls for Cigarette Quality
	Parallel Session 4F: Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration II (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Measuring the Contribution of International Remittances to Household Expenditures and Economic Output: A Micro-Macro Analysis for the Philippines	2	Evolving Impact of Global Value Chains on the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports: A Time-Varying Coefficients Approach	3	Locating Positions in Global Production Networks: A Cross-Country Examination of Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream Dynamics and its Shock Propagations in Textiles & Clothing Sector	4	Unlocking Innovation: The Impact of Free Trade Zones on Corporate Innovation in China
11:45 am –1:15pm	Lunch break (5th Floor, Woosuk Economic Hall)
1:15 pm –2:45pm	Sessions 5A-5F
	Parallel Session 5A: Agriculture and Rural Development II (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Information Provision and Risk Attitudes of Subsistence Tribal Farmers in Eastern India: Evidence from Field experiments	2	Distributional Effects of Indian Agricultural Interventions	3	Urban-Rural Migration and Agricultural Production: Evidence from Returning Family Migrants
	Parallel Session 5B: Climate Change and Environment III (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Factors Influencing Climate Change Adaptation Among Farmers in the Mekong Delta	2	Weather Shocks and Economic Well-Being in Indonesia	3	Short-Run Impacts of Floods: A Case Study of India
	Parallel Session 5C: Gender III (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Trade and Gendered Labor Outcomes: Evidence from Changing Export Demand in Indonesia	2	Gender Differences in Retirement Wellbeing	3	Bridging the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Empowering Women via Digital Technologies
	Parallel Session 5D:  Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration III (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Global Shocks and Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets	2	The Effect of the China Connect	3	Do Non-Monetary Forms of Remittances Matter for Entrepreneurship Development? Evidence from Filipino Migrants in Japan
	Parallel Session 5E: Macroeconomics and Finance IV (Room 307, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Luminosity and Local Economic Growth	2	The Lending Implications of Loan Loss Provisions and Monetary Policy in Indonesia	3	Learning from Neighbors: Peer Effects in Chinese Household Financial Investments
	Parallel Session 5F: Labor III (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Effect of Fringe Benefit Tax on Wages: Evidence from India	2	Expanding Workers’ Social Protection Schemes for Informal Workers in Indonesia: Between Urgency and Necessity	3	The Minimum Wage Effects on Earnings and Sorting
2:45 pm –3:00pm	Coffee break (Woosuk Economic Hall, 1F/3F)
3:00 pm –4:30 pm	Sessions 6A-6F
	Parallel Session 6A: Climate Change, Energy, and Environment (Room 107, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Distributional Effects of Climate Change. An Empirical Analysis	2	Do Power Outages Hurt Export Performance? Evidence from a Firm-Level Survey	3	Domestic Pollution Havens: Linking Interregional Capital Flight and Water Pollution Regulation in China
	Parallel Session 6B: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance III  (Room 109, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	The Effects of Tax Holidays on Investment and Innovation: A Firm-level Data Analysis in Thailand	2	The Effects of Indonesia's Country-by-Country Reporting Regulation on Investment
	Parallel Session 6C: Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration IV (Room 207, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Navigating Global Value Chains: An Analysis of The Indonesian Electronics Industry’s Impact on International Trade, Labor, and Collaborative Relationship	2	Are Unexpected Guests Welcomed by Hosts?: Evidence on How Natives Respond to Sudden Asylum Seeker Influx	3	Questioning the Quality: Reputational Impact on Indian Pharmaceutical Exports
	Parallel Session 6D: Poverty and Inequality II (Room 208, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Financial Literacy and Fintech Use in Family Business: Evidence from Developing Asia	2	Rainfall, Health Risks, and Socioeconomic Vulnerability in Environmentally Vulnerable Populations	3	What “Causes” Income Inequality? Technological Innovation versus Financialization
	Parallel Session 6E: Macroeconomics and Finance V (Room 307, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Indonesian Household Asset Allocation Behavior	2	A Generalized Model of Growth in the Data Economy	3	Unpacking the Determinants of Financial Resilience in the Philippines
	Parallel Session 6F: Health and Gender (Room 308, Woosuk Economic Hall)	1	Long-term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood	2	Shaping Gender Role Attitudes: The Influence of Parental Occupational Differences on the Next Generation	3	Unintended Consequences of Family Planning Policies on the Breastfeeding Gap between Sons and Daughter
	End of Conference