Conference Program
(as of 04 June 2026)
13 June 2026, Saturday | |||||||||
8:30 am–9:00 am Open area, ground floor | Registration | ||||||||
9:00 am–9:15 am Room G012, ground floor | Opening session
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9:15 am–9:45 am Room G012, ground floor | Keynote Speech: Geopolitics and Chinese Education Speaker: Ruixue Jia, Professor, University of California-San Diego Moderator: Carol Shiue, Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder and Visiting Professor, HKUST | ||||||||
9:45 am–10:00 am Open area, 1st floor | Coffee break | ||||||||
10:00 am–12:00 pm |
Parallel Sessions 1A - 1G |
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| Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 1A: Digital Economy and Technology Adoption | 1 |
Digital Transmission of Financial Knowledge: Evidence from Stock Market Investment Bernard Yeung |
2 |
Analysts’ AI Adoption and Earnings Forecast Accuracy Shu Tian |
3 |
Mobile Money Adoption, Financial Literacy, and Informal Enterprises Performance: Empirical Evidence from Developing Asia Usman Alhassan |
4 | Skill that Pay: A Large Language Model-based Analysis of Digital Skills Demand in Asia and the Pacific Yusuke Aoki |
| Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1B: | 1 |
Do Local Banking Crises Pose Risks to Bank Performance in an Emerging Market Economy? Evidence Using a Two-Stage Network DEA Approach Rachita Gulati |
2 |
A Delicate Balance: Can Macroprudential Tools Protect Stability Without Hurting Access? Yassine Bakkar |
3 |
Firms’ Inflation Expectations and Pricing Decisions Cymon Kayle Lubangco |
4 |
The Impact of Payment Innovation on Interest Rate Pass-Through: Evidence from India's Unified Payments Interface Dhruv Goel |
| Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1C: Trade Policy and Firm Performance | 1 |
Evading the Ban: Smuggling, Pollution, and the Welfare Effects of China’s Waste Import Restrictions Yuyuan Yu |
2 |
Breaking Barriers or Deepening Divides? Trade Liberalization and Gender Performance Gap in Vietnamese Enterprises Robin Kaiji Gong |
3 |
Foreign Demand Shocks and Domestic Value Added: Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam Alessandro Barattieri |
4 | Geopolitics and Export Miracles: Firm-Level Evidence from U.S. War Procurement in Korea Philipp Barteska |
| Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1D: Fertility, Gender, and Household Dynamics |
1 |
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, Son Preference, and Fertility Restrictions: A Tale of Birth Order Shumeng Zhang |
2 |
The Fertility, Marriage, and Gender Equality Quandary Anson Zhou |
3 |
Housing Conditions and Fertility Decisions: Natural Experimental Evidence from Postwar Japan Trang T. Vu |
4 | Sibling Disability and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Order Variation in Cambodia Yuki Kanayama |
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1E: Health and Climate Change | 1 | Extreme Temperatures Promote High-Fat Diets Shuo Li | 2 | From Coal to Clean: the Impact of Clean Energy Adoption on Children’s Health Yvonne Jie Chen | 3 | The Air We Breathe, the Minds We Bear: Unveiling the Link Between Air Pollution and Mental Health in Indonesia Muhammad Putra | 4 | Temporary Mass Gatherings, Water Pollution, and Child Health in India Moogdho Mahzab |
Room 1011, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1F: Labor Market and Skills | 1 | Impact of Public Transport and Ride-Hailing Services on Female Labor Force Participation in Lahore, Pakistan: A Mixed-Method Approach Hina Amber | 2 | International Trade, Commodity Production and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia Mark Hup | 3 | Skill Mismatch and Labor Productivity in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Kazakhstan Rhea Molato-Gayares | 4 | Too Young to Tap: Rubber Booms and Age-Differentiated Schooling in Malaysia Kaveendra Vasuthevan |
Room 1014, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 1G: Development Policy and Economic Transformation I | 1 | Expressway Expansion, International Trade, and Spatial Imbalance Longzhou Wang | 2 | Does Specialized Disciplinary Oversight Reshape Capital Reallocation? Evidence from Corporate Asset Sales Castiel Chen Zhuang | 3 | Foreign Aid and Conflict: Evidence from Belt and Road Initiative Lin Yang | 4 | Industrial Policy and Retaliatory Protection Under the WTO: Lessons from China Haishi Li |
12:10 pm–12:50 pm 1st floor, South Wing | Lunch break | ||||||||
12:50 pm–1:20 pm Room G012, ground floor | Keynote Talk: The Economic Consequences of the Opium War Presentation: Wolfgang Keller, Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder and Visiting Professor, HKUST Moderator: Albert Park, Chief Economist, ADB | ||||||||
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Parallel Sessions 2A - 2G | ||||||||
Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 2A: Asian Development Review I | 1 | Introductory Remarks John Gibson | 2 | Evaluating the Economic Impact of Expressway Development in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Lights Li Xiaomeng | 3 | Spillover Effects of Carbon Pricing on Corporate Financial Performance: Evidence from China’s Emissions Trading System Hai Le | ||
Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2B: Nature and Environment | 1 | Nature Heals: Mangroves, Mental Health, and Cognitive Functions Nidhiya Menon | 2 | Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Nature Conservation Madhavi Pundit | 3 | Deforestation and Infectious Animal Diseases Rohit Ticku | 4 | Environmental Policy Coordination Xiongfei Li |
Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2C: Global Trade and Economic Integration | 1 | From Shipments to Supply Chains: Mining Input-Output Links from Firm-level Trade Flows Yawen Zheng | 2 | FDI Liberalization and Firms’ Product Quality Adjustment: Evidence from India Kamalesh Pahurkar | 3 | Grey-Relational Identification of Core Countries in Global Value-Added Trade Networks: Evidence from Spatial Panel Models Yujie Xue | 4 | Can Technology Transfers Save Innovation? Evidence from China Zhangfeng Jin |
Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2D: Behavior and Development Interventions I | 1 | Impact of Gardening and Nutrition Support Provided to Women in Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Liz Ignowski | 2 | Overcoming the Informational Uncertainties in Health Technology Adoptions Yiqian Wang | 3 | Delivering Remote Learning in Developing Countries Using a Low-tech Solution: Evidence from Nepal Asad Islam | ||
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2E: Education and Development Outcomes I | 1 | Adopting the Language of the Ethnic Majority: Evaluation of the Philippines' Bilingual Education Policy Takiko Igarashi | 2 | When Ambitions Align: Peer Parental Aspiration and Student Achievement Yuzhi Zhou | 3 | Can Life Skills Foster Child Learning? Tomohisa Miyamoto | ||
Room 1011, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2F: Long-run Development I | 1 | Frontier Settlement and Nation Building: Evidence from Tuntian in Historical China Shu Cai | 2 | Carbon Footprint of Place-Based Economic Policies Zhanhan Yu | 3 | Maoist Civil War and Long-Term Economic Impact on Nepal Raja Rajendra Timilsina | ||
Room 1014, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 2G: Development Policy and Economic Transformation II | 1 | Farming, Non-Farm Enterprises, and Migration Under Incomplete Markets Giacomo De Giorgi | 2 | Political Cycles, Clientelism, and Bank Intermediation: Evidence from Indonesian Gubernatorial Elections Arisyi F. Raz | 3 | Trade, Growth, and Inequality Ana Kristel Molina-Lapid | 4 | The Impacts of Negative Income Tax on Labor Market and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment Sangyoon Park |
3:30 pm–3:45 pm Open area, 1st floor | Coffee break | ||||||||
3:45 pm–5:15 pm | Parallel Session 3A - 3G | ||||||||
Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 3A: Macroeconomics and Finance II | 1 | Personnel is Policy (Implementation): Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle Philipp Barteska | 2 | Financial Constraints, Innovation Quality, and Growth Yu Cao | 3 | Endogenous Sovereign Debt Disclosure with Information Asymmetry Chong Wang | ||
Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3B: Agriculture and Development | 1 | Salinity, Structural Transformation, and the Gendered Reallocation of Labor in Viet Nam Vrinda Sharma | 2 | Drought and Agricultural Adaptation: Land Reallocation and Labor Dynamics in Vietnam Nguyen Dinh Tuan Vuong | 3 | The Unseen Harvest Down the River: Health Benefits of Bt Cotton Xiaomeng Cui | ||
Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3C: Innovation, Productivity, and Firm Growth | 1 | R&D Tax Credit and Product Quality Versus Scope Sujaya Sircar | 2 | Specialize or Innovate? Product Scope Adjustment and Productivity Growth Under Competition Hyojin Kwak | 3 | Innovation in Response to the Public: Endogenous Effect of Publicizing Pollution Information of Manufacturing Firms Mengxi Xie | ||
Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3D: Green Growth and Sustainable Development | 1 | Green Growth in Production and Innovation Networks Wan Xu | 2 | Incentives to Electricity Conservation and Impact on Household: Evidence from Field Experiment Dil Rahut | 3 | Do Modern Value Chains Benefit Smallholder Farmers ? Evidence from Sri Lanka Nusrat Akber | ||
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3E: Health and Development I | 1 | Unequal Beginnings: Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Children’s Access to Education, Health and Basic Services in India (2005–2021) Shruti Menon | 2 | The Human Capital Legacy of State-Led Industrialization: Long-Term Health Impacts of China’s 156 Projects Andong Yan | 3 | Global Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance Roshen Fernando | ||
Room 1011, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3F: Gender and Labor Markets | 1 | Beyond Quotas: How Affirmative Action Shapes Marriage, Fertility, and Women’s Work in India Pragati | 2 | Patriarchal Norms and Women’s Work Shabana Mitra | 3 | Gender Gap and Decline in Female Labour Force Participation in India: A Joint Search Perspective Srinivasan Murali | ||
Room 1014, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 3G: Education and Development Outcomes II | 1 | Place-Based Initiatives and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from India’s Aspirational Districts Programme Parul Gupta | 2 | Still Biased? A Remaining Classical Selection Problem of RCTs in Education Mai Seki | 3 | Spatial Misallocation in Education: The Left-Behind and Land Reforms in China Karol Mazur | ||
6:00 pm–8:30 pm | Conference Dinner: China Garden Remarks: Albert Park, Chief Economist, ADB | ||||||||
14 June 2026, Sunday | |||||||||
8:30 am–9:00 am Open area, ground floor | Registration | ||||||||
9:00 am–9:30 am Room G012, ground floor | Keynote Talk: Knowledge for Development: Realizing a Lead-Free Future for Every Child | ||||||||
9:30 am–9:45 am Open area, 1st floor | Coffee break | ||||||||
9:45 am–11:45 am |
Parallel Sessions 4A - 4F |
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| Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 4A: | 1 |
Introductory Remarks John Gibson |
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Cross-Border Investment and Digital Technology Adoption: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea Rolando Avendano |
3 |
Trade Agreements and Within-Firm Labor Formalization: Evidence from the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement Le Hong Hanh Nguyen |
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| Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 4B: | 1 |
Do Fiscal Consolidations Make Banks Safer or Riskier? João Jalles |
2 |
Borrowing for Glory: How Career Incentives Drive the Growth of Quasi-Municipal Debt in China Ming Gu |
3 |
Resilience of Capital Flows Amid Global Risk Spillovers in Emerging Markets Donna Faye Bajaro |
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Energy, Environment, Productivity, Energy, Environment, Productivity, Growth and Welfare Interrelationship Across India, MENA and South & Southeast Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Spatial Econometric Investigation, Growth and Welfare Interrelationship Across India, MENA and South & Southeast Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Spatial Econometric Investigation Manish Chauhan, Somesh Kumar Mathur, and Praveen Kulshreshtha |
| Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 4C: Behavior and Development Interventions II | 1 |
Gen AI in School: How Guidelines and Restrictions Shape Student Performance Yanlin Wan |
2 |
Who Benefits from Affirmative Action? Sub-Caste Inequality in India Pawandeep Kaur |
3 |
How Does Edtech Affect Girls and Boys Differently? Experimental Evidence from School Dropouts in Bangladesh Zhigang Li |
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| Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 4D: Poverty and Inequality |
1 |
Has China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Empowered Rural Women? Jiaying Chen |
2 |
Paying the Cost of Ambition: Time Poverty Among Working Married Women in India Aasheerwad Dwivedi |
3 |
Poverty Traps Driven by Family Bargaining Yotaro Ueno |
4 | Mapping Asset Wealth Using Satellite Imagery in Asia Takaaki Masaki |
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 4E: Health and Development II | 1 | Crops, Insects, and Diseases: Unintended Consequences of Straw-Burning Ban on Ecosystem and Human Health Wen Wang | 2 | A New Way to Healthier Urbanization in Developing Economies: Evidence from China Jingqi Liu | 3 | The Intergenerational Impact of the Public Long-term Care Insurance Policy Cassie Chen Xiang | 4 | Subsidizing Healthy Aging: Evidence from Cohort-Based Healthcare Programs for Older Singaporeans Terence C. Cheng |
Room 1011, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 4F: Infrastructure and Urban Development | 1 | Where You Live Matters: Rural-Urban Inequities and Urban Polarisation in India's Housing Landscape Chandhini Anbalagan | 2 | Indigenous Community Preferences for Road Development in Indonesia: Trade-Offs Between Accessibility and Forest-Based Livelihoods Martin Siyaranamual | 3 | Rural Roads and Firm Behavior in India Punarjit Roychowdhury | 4 | Urban Transport Investments and Traffic Outcomes: Evidence from Two Major Projects in Dhaka Yi Jiang |
11:45 am – 12:30 pm 1st floor, South Wing | Lunch break | ||||||||
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Parallel Sub-plenary Sessions 1 - 3 | ||||||||
Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Sub-plenary 1: Global Value Chains and Inclusive Development Presentation: Neil Foster-McGregor, Principal Economist, ADB Moderator: Ana Kristel Molina-Lapid, Associate Economics Officer, ADB | ||||||||
Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Sub-plenary 2: Accelerating Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific: Fiscal Policy Solutions [Book launch] Presentation: Ulrich Volz, Professor, SOAS University of London Moderator: Arief Ramayandi, Senior Research Economist, ADBI Panelists: Dina Azhgaliyeva, Senior Economist, ADB João Jalles, Professor, University of Lisbon Namrata Chindarkar, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | ||||||||
Room 1014, 1st floor, North Wing | Sub-plenary 3: Reform Gridlock and the Middle-Income Trap: Governance, Institutions, and Development in Asia Presentation: Bambang Brodjonegoro, Dean and Chief Executive Officer, ADBI Moderator: Rachita Gulati, Research Economist, ADBI Panelists: Abdul Abiad, Deputy Chief Economist, ADB Nidhiya Menon, Associate Professor, Brandeis University Dil Rahut, Senior Research Economist, ADBI | ||||||||
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm Open area, 1st floor | Break | ||||||||
1:45 pm–3:15 pm | Parallel Sessions 5A - 5F | ||||||||
Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 5A: Long-run Development II | 1 | Squeezed from Both Sides: Tariff Shocks, Sticky Wages, and Firms’ Labor Market Power Caiyun Wu | 2 | Broadcasting Norms: State Media, Intrahousehold Dynamics, and Child Welfare Fadhil Nadhif Muharam | 3 | Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of VAT Exemptions Bobby Kunda | ||
Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 5B: Private Sector Development | 1 | Racing to the Top? Foreign Firms and Local Markets: Evidence from Vietnam Trang Thanh Tran | 2 | Do Agglomeration Externalities Form Service Clusters? Evidence from a Location Lottery Yuki Higuchi | 3 | Subsidy vs. Equity: The Rise of Government Venture Capital in China Ruilin Cheng | ||
Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 5C: Gender and Well-being | 1 | Anaemia Among Women in Coal Producing Districts of India: A Local Health Dimension of the Resource Curse Kumari Palak | 2 | Effects of Gender Imbalance Within and Across Generations: Men’s Marrying Up and Family Dynamics Li Yanjun | 3 | Longer Maternity Leave, Higher Husbands’ Earnings: Intra-Household Effects of Vietnam’s 2013 Mandatory Maternity Leave Extension Linh Bui | ||
Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 5D: Education and Development Outcomes III | 1 | The Labor Market Impacts of Vocational School Expansion: Evidence from Indonesia Xing Xia | 2 | Policy for Closing Education Gaps Across Gender and Culture: Tuition-Free Education or School Construction? Kotaro Fujisaki | 3 | The Long Shadow: Childhood Poverty and the Returns to Education Ade Febriady | ||
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 5E: Gender and Labor | 1 | Fertility Policy and Statistical Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China Yijun Yu | 2 | Does Domestic Violence Law Shift Gender Attitudes and Female Labor Force Participation in Kyrgyzstan? Chisato Tachibana | 3 | Lingering Effects of Gender Differences at Hiring Ana Kristel Molina-Lapid | ||
Room 1011, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 5F: Green Innovation and Climate Policy | 1 | Carbon Emissions Trading and the Spatial Diffusion of Green Innovation: Evidence from China’s ETS Pilots Xiaoyu Zhang | 2 | Making or Buying Green? Green Certification and Reconfiguration of Corporate Carbon Boundary Xiaoqing Wang | 3 | Impacts of Solar Subsidy: Evidence from Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design in Nepal Ngawang Dendup | ||
3:15 pm–3:30 pm Open area, 1st floor | Coffee break | ||||||||
3:30 pm–5:30 pm | Parallel Session 6A - 6E | ||||||||
Room G012, ground floor | Parallel Session 6A: Trade, Innovation, and Global Value Chains | 1 | Returnee Inventor, Knowledge Spillover and International R&D Collaboration Sherry Xue | 2 | No Change, No Gain: Exporting, Diversification, and Firm Growth in the Philippines Jacobe Joaquin Sevilla | 3 | Global Value Chains, Multinational Enterprises, Intangible Capital, and Inclusiveness — Implications for Asia Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 4 | Buyer Market Power, Transport Mode, and Exchange Rate Shocks Aminur Rahman |
Room 1005, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 6B: Macroeconomics and Finance IV | 1 | Liquidity Preferences and Credit Intermediation in the Era of Digital Payment Innovations Aditi Rohatgi | 2 | Capital Misallocation and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from China Nuobu Renzhi | 3 | How to Assess Crisis Risk: Developing a New Machine Learning Early Warning System Mattia Bevilacqua | 4 | The Scarring Effect of Recessions on Capital Misallocation: Evidence from GFC Shock in Indonesia Muhammad Mubin |
Room 1007, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 6C: Behavior and Development Interventions III | 1 | Low Value Care in Indonesia’s National Health Insurance System: The Case of Elective Caesarean Section Procedures Arief Ramayandi | 2 | The Effects of Providing Paid Formal Work and Training on Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Weavers’ Collectives in India Tarun Jain | 3 | Empowered Women Prioritize Environmental and Health Impacts from Fuel Choice: Empirical Evidence from Central Asia Dina Azhgaliyeva | 4 | The Impact of Debt Management Training from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Married Couples in Rural Thailand Alistair Munro |
Room 1009, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 6D: Health and Development III | 1 | From Girls to Generations: The Intergenerational Health Effects of India's SABLA Program Panchali Guha | 2 | When Primary Care Collapses: Rural Economic Reform and Rising Mortality in China Shulei Zhang | 3 | Barrier to Import Batteries and Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh Moogdho Mahzab | 4 | The Grandparent Health Dividend: Transitioning to Grandparenthood and its Impact on Mental Health Xiaolong Hou |
Room 1010, 1st floor, North Wing | Parallel Session 6E: Innovation, Productivity, and Structural Transformation | 1 | Improving Delivery of Last-Mile Health Services Using Drones: Evidence from Odisha, India Namrata Chindarkar | 2 | The Innovation Cost of Indirect Employment Sunwoo Hwang | 3 | Can Digital Platforms Boost Economic Growth? Evidence from the Taobao Villages Mengyuan Cai | 4 | Innovation Policies and Inventors’ Productivity: Evidence from Global AI Initiatives Leo Liu |
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