13th Annual Conference: Labour Economics

13th Annual Conference
Labour Economics

May
2026

Tuesday

Policy Shocks and Labor Market Adjustment
Chair: Pinchuan ONG (National University of Singapore)

Venue: Tanglin III & IV

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Who Gets Screened Out? The Opioid Crisis and Employer Skill Requirements

Bokyung KIM (University of Connecticut)
Minseog KIM (Grinnell College)
Geunyong PARK* (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Seonghoon KIM (Singapore Management University)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 10:10 am

Break

10:10 am – 11:10 am

Maternity Leave Extensions and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform

Hanming FANG* (University of Pennsylvania and ABFER)
Jiayin HU (Peking University)
Miao YU (Peking University)

Discussant:
Xiaoyue SHAN (National University of Singapore)

Conference Paper

11:10 am – 11:25 am

Break

11:25 am – 12:25 pm

Student Loans and Labor Market Outcomes: Analyzing the Role of Federal Loan Interest Rates

Naijia GUO (University of Hong Kong)
Ling ZHONG* (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

Discussant:
Lei ZHANG (Zhejiang University)

Conference Paper

May
2026

Wednesday

Demographic Change and Economic Responses
Chair: Naijia GUO (University of Hong Kong)

Venue: Tanglin IV

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Prices and Immigration: Firm-Level Evidence

Ryan KIM* (Seoul National University)
Justin H LEUNG (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ariel WEINBERGER (Geroge Washington University)

Discussant:
Poorya KABIR (National University of Singapore)

Conference Paper

3:00 pm – 3:10 pm

Break

3:10 pm – 4:10 pm

Employing Undocumented Workers: Immigration Enforcement Impacts on Small Businesses And The Role of Bank Monitoring

Christine Zhuowei HUANG (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Amit KUMAR (Singapore Management University)
Jiajie XU* (University of Iowa)

Discussant:
Zibin HUANG (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Conference Paper

4:10 pm – 4:25 pm

Break

4:25 pm – 5:25 pm

Cats, Dogs, and Babies: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Substitutes or Complements from Linked Administrative Records

Kuan-Ming CHEN* (National Taiwan University)
Ming-Jen LIN (National Taiwan University)
Hau-Hung YANG (National Taiwan University)
Shirley Yu-Hsuan YEN (University of Rochester)

Discussant:
Juan PANTANO (University of Hong Kong)

Conference Paper

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 16 March 2026.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper has 35 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussant remarks, and 10 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 10 and 15 minutes break after the first two papers, respectively.

Contact Information

Program Director	Conference Organizer
Patricia CORTES (Boston University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Jessica PAN (National University of Singapore and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Naijia GUO (University of Hong Kong) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Pinchuan ONG (National University of Singapore) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.