1st Hong Kong Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

Introduction

We are very privileged and excited to hold a cross-institution, in-person event. The organizing committee of this event includes Guojun He (HKUST), Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (HKUST), Sujata Visaria (HKUST), Gedeon Lim (HKU), John Klopfer (HKU), and Sangtoon Park (HKU). This is a two-day event. The first day of the event is held at HKU on June 11th, while the second day of the event is held at HKUST on June 25th.

Program Schedule

Friday, June 11

Introduction to workshop by Prof. James Kung, Chair, Econ Area, HKU Business School (09:05-09:15)

	Area	Paper title	Presenter
09:15-12:00 (Morning Session)	Political Economy: Elite Networks, Clientelism and Ethnic Politics	Clientelism and Ideology: the Rise of Hindu Nationalist Politics in an Erstwhile Communist Stronghold (with Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra and Dilip Mookherjee)	Visaria, Sujata
		Ethnic Segregation & Politics: Evidence from Malaysia	Lim, Gedeon
		The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization	Bai, Ying
Lunch (12:15-13:15)
14:15-16:00 (Afternoon Session I)	Human Capital and Intra-HH Allocation	Parenting style and children’s time preference: evidence from an RCT in Rural China	Park, Albert
		Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the effect of children's health shocks on intra-household resource allocation	Guo, Naijia
Break (16:00-16:15)
16:15-18:40 (Afternoon Session II)	Productivity and Matching	Do Part-time Jobs Attract Less Productive Workers? Evidence from Field Experiment on Data Entry Clerks in Ethiopia	Kim, Bryant
		Preliminary work on WFH	Kwan, Alan P
		Love Is Blind: Search and Matching in Online Dating	Dang, Ivy

Friday, June 25

	Area	Paper title	Presenter
10:00-11:45 (Morning Session)	Education	Learning Time and Achievement: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment	Klopfer, John
		Sex-appropriate Schools, Female Education, and Fertility: Evidence from Jordan	Zhang, Hongliang
Lunch (12:00-13:00)
13:15-15:00 (Afternoon Session I)	Media	Social media and governments responsiveness: evidence from vaccine procurements in China	Wu, Yanhui
		Do Media Bow to Foreign Economic Powers? Evidence from News Websites Crackdown	Chen, Heng
Coffee Break (15:00-15:30)
15:30-18:15 (Afternoon Session II)	Environment	Does Public Participation Matter? Evidence from a National-Scale Experiment on the Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China	He, Guojun
		How China's Trade Liberalization Affects Firm Environmental Performance	Tang, Heiwai
		Trans-Boundary Air Pollution Spillovers: Physical Transport and Economic Costs by Distance	Viard, Brian

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