Hayami Conference 2018

Saturday 15 Dec 2018, 09:30 → 20:30 Asia/Tokyo

1F A, B, and C (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies )

Organizers
Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University), Yasuyuki Todo (Waseda University), Yoko Kijima (GRIPS), and Aya Suzuki (University of Tokyo)

Program Committee
Kazushi Takahashi (Sophia University), Tomoya Matsumoto (Otaru University of Commerce), and Yoko Kijima (GRIPS)

Co-sponsorship
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant Number 18H03642

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Deadline is 9 December.

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09:30 → 09:40 Opening

09:40 → 11:00 Session 1: Guest Lecture I

Chair: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)

09:40 Industrial Policy and Labour Outcome Revisited: the case of Ethiopia

Speaker: Stefan Dercon (Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economics, University of Oxford)

11:00 → 11:10 break

11:10 → 12:40 Session 2

Chair: Tetsushi Sonobe

11:10 Labor Market Dynamics after the Natural Disaster: Evidence from Post-tsunami Aceh Panel Data

Discussant: Seiro Ito

Speaker: Manabu Nose

11:55 Barriers to Joining a Public Pension Program in a Developing Country

joint with Tomoaki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Sawada, Khalium Dovchinsuren

Discussant: Stephan Litschig

Speaker: Junichi Yamasaki

12:40 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 15:45 Session 3

Chair: Kei Kajisa

13:20 The Effect of Social Interactions on Exporting Activities: Evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Rural Vietnam

joint with Daichi Shimamoto, Yu Ri Kim

Discussant: Yuki Higuchi

Speaker: Yasuyuki Todo

14:05 A Scarce but Trustworthy Workforce? Family Labor in the Lao Textile Industry

joint with Yasuyuki Sawada

Discussant: Yukichi Mano

Speaker: Mari Tanaka

14:50 break

15:00 Pregnant in Haste? Evidence of Reproductive Behaviors in Uganda

joint with Chikako Yamauchi

discussant: Yuya Kudo

Speaker: Masaru Nagashima

15:45 → 15:55 break

15:55 → 17:15 Session 4: Guest Lecture II

Chair: Yasuyuki Todo

15:55 Innovating for Female Entrepreneurs

Speaker: Markus Goldstein (Lead Economist, World Bank)

17:15 → 17:35 Plan for JADE

Speakers: Keijiro Otsuka, Yasuyuki Todo

17:35 → 17:45 Closing

17:45 → 20:15 Reception