2008東亞應用個體經濟計量研討會議程

公告日期：2008-10-13

2008 Asian Conference on Applied Micro-Economics/Econometrics

Conference Program (tentative)

Date: October 24 (Friday)–25 (Saturday), 2008
Venue: Conference Room
　　　　2nd floor, Law Building
　　　　College of Social Science
　　　　National Taiwan University

議程：

Opening Remark: Yung-Mau Chao, Dean of the Social Science College			9:00-9:10, October 24
Session 1:	Network and Social Interaction	Chair: Solomon Polachek	October 24
1	Bruce Weinberg	Ohio State University	9:10-9:55
	Title: Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
2	Kamhon Kan	Academia Sinica	9:55-10:40
	Title: Physical Attractiveness and Social Interaction: Evidence from China

Coffee Break			10:40-10:50

3	Ryo Nakajima University of Tsukuba	10:50-11:35
	Title: The Effect of Collaboration Network on Inventors' Job, Match, Productivity and Tenure
4	Fali Huang Singapore Management University	11:35-12:20
	Title: Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence

Lunch time

Session 2:	Human Capital	Chair: Kamhon Kan	October 24
1	Jinyoung Kim	Korea University	13:30-14:20
	Title: Diversification in Children
2	Haoming Liu	National University of Singapore	14:20-15:10
	Title: Is There a Quality-Quantity Tradeoff? Evidence from the Relaxation of China's One Child Policy

Coffee Break			15:10-15:30

3	Stacey Chen & JinTan Liu	Royal Holloway University of London, National Taiwan University	15:30-16:20
	Title: Do Sibling Gender and Family Size Affect Children’s College Attainment? Evidence from Administrative Data of Taiwan
4	MingJen Lin	National Taiwan University	16:20-17:10
	Title: Does “In Utero” Pandemic Exposure Matter? Evidence from the Long Term Effect of the 1918 Influenza on Educational Attainments in Taiwan

Session 3:	Social Welfare and Family Support	Chair: Bruce Weinberg	October 25
1	David Ribar	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	9:10-9:55
	Title: Food Stamps, TANF, and Food Hardships in Three American Cities
2	Cheolsung Park	National University of Singapore	9:55-10:40
	Title: Why do Children Support Elderly Parents? Evidence from South Korea

Coffee Break			10:40-10:50

Session 4:	Endogeneity	Chair: David Ribar	October 25
1	MyoungJae Lee	Korea University	10:50-11:35
	Title: Semiparametric Estimators for Limited Dependent Variable -- (LDV) Models with Endogenous Regressors
2	Beomsoo Kim	Korea University	11:35-12:20
	Title: Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Evidence from LASIK Eye Surgeries

Lunch time

Session 5:	Empirical Wage Estimation	Chair: MyoungJae Lee	October 25
1	Solomon Polachek	State University of New York at Binghamton	13:30-14:20
	Title: The Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-Country Analysis
2	Daiji Kawaguchi	Hitotsubashi University	14:20-15:10
	Title: Labor Market Responses to Legal Work Hour Reduction: Evidence from Japan
3	Tao (Dennis) Yang	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	15:10-16:00
	Title: Accounting for Rising Wages in China