2025 CAU Labor-Public Economics International Conference

Date : Thursday, August 28, 2025

Venue : Room 721, Centennial Hall (Building 310), Chung-Ang University, Korea

Host : Chung-Ang University School of Economics

Registration 

9:30am – 10: 00am 

Session 1. Labor Economics

10:00am – 11: 30am 

Chair : Changhui Kang (Chung-Ang University, Korea) 

• 1-1. Daiji Kawaguchi (University of Tokyo, Japan) :

Can Capping Overtime Improve Worker Welfare? Evidence from Japan’s 2019 Labor Reform

• 1-2. Geunyong Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore) :

The Opioid Crisis and the Location of Work: Evidence from Online Job Profile Data

• 1-3. Wonsik Ko (Korea Institute of Public Finance, Korea) :

Does Unemployment Insurance Attenuate the Scarring Effect?

Lunch

11:30am – 13: 00pm  

Session 2. Education and Health Economics

13:00pm- 14:30pm

Chair : Wonho Song (Chung-Ang University, Korea) 

• 2-1. Minseon Park (University of Michigan, USA) :

Identity and Ideology in the Boardroom

• 2-2. Sukjoon Son (University of Tokyo, Japan) :

Disentangling School and Peer Effects: A Non-linear Approach with School Lotteries 

• 2-3. Kaixin Liu (Jinan University, China) :

The Origin of Fertility Norm Destruction in China: Role of Norm and Institution 

Coffee Break

14:30pm – 14: 50pm  

Session 3. Public Economics

14:50pm- 15:50pm

Chair : Sun Go (Chung-Ang University, Korea)

• 3-1. Kamhon Kan (Academica Sinica, Taiwan) : 

Consumption Sensitivity to Stimulus Payments and Income Nonfungibility 

• 3-2. Yohanes Eko Riyanto (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) :

Less Is More: Choice Overload, Deservingness, and Saliency in Online Charitable Donations 

Coffee Break

15:50pm – 16: 10pm  

Session 4. Graduate Students Session 

16:10pm- 17:40pm

Chair : Jiwoong Moon (Chung-Ang University, Korea) 

• 4-1. Youngju Lim (Chung-Ang University, Korea) :

The Effect of Social Safety Nets in Hard Times on Children’s Outcomes

• 4-2. Eunji You (Chung-Ang University, Korea) :

The Local Economic Consequences of the Itaewon Crowd Crush

• 4-3. Saerom Ahn (Chung-Ang University, Korea) :

The Causal Effect of Net Migration on Apartment Prices 

Conference Dinner

18:00pm – 21: 00pm