10th TPLS in Osaka

The Trans Pacific Labor Seminar (TPLS) was founded by Takao Kato and Peter Kuhn in 2007 to begin a much-needed process of international academic integration of labor economists in the Pacific Rim. Since then, the TPLS has been holding annual meetings in the United States, Japan and Australia. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the TPLS, and we are pleased to bring the TPLS meeting to Osaka for the first time.

Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER), Fumio Ohtake (Osaka), Masaru Sasaki (Osaka), and Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi)

Sponsor: Osaka University

Dates: June 10 (Saturday) and 11 (Sunday), 2017

Place: Knowledge Capital, Grand Front Osaka

Day 1 （June 10, Saturday)

Economics of Higher Education chaired by Peter Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara)

09:30-10:15 Jordan Matsudaira (Cornell University)

• Not so Simple? Does Application Complexity Undermine the Effects of Federal Subsidies for College Enrollment?

10:15-11:00Takao Kato and Yang Song (Colgate University)

• An Adviser Like Me: Does Gender Matter?

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Nobuyoshi Kikuchi (Osaka University)

• Marginal Returns to Schooling and Education Policy Change in Japan

12:00-13:30 Lunch

Intergenerational Mobility and Education chaired by Fumio Ohtake (Osaka University)

13:30-14:15 Jesse Rothstein (UC Berkeley)

• Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income

14:15-15:00 Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)

• Do Middle Level Schools Foster Meritocracy? Historical Evidence from School Constructions in Japan

15:00-15:30 Break

Education and Public Policy chiared by Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)

15:30-16:15 Stacey Chen (GRIPS)

• Measuring Remoteness Using a Data-Driven Approach (with Yu-Kuan Chen and Hueymin Wu)

16:15-17:00 Michael Baker (University of Toronto)

• Title IX and the Spatial Content of Female Employment—Out of the Lab and into the Labor Market (with Kirsten Cornelson)

19:00-20:30 Conference dinner

Day 2 （June 11, Sunday)

Recruitment and Job Search chaired by Masaaru Sasaki (Osaka University)

09:30-10:15 Peter Kuhn

• Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China (with Kailing Shen)

10:15-11:00 Hiroko Okudaira (Okayama University)

• Regulating the Timing of Job Search: Evidence from New College Graduates in Japan

11:00-11:15 Break

Employment and Family chaired by Takao Kato

11:15-12:00 Ken Yamada (Kyoto University)

• Heterogeneous Impact of the Minimum Wage: Wage Differentials and Inequality (with Tatsushi Oka)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Yukiko Asai (University of Tokyo)

• Costs of Employment and Flexible Labor Demand: Evidence from a Parental Leave Reform

14:15-15:00 Prashant Bharadwai (UC San Diego)

• Parental Health Shocks and Child Labor Supply Responses

15:00-14:45 Break

14:45-16:15 Discussion Time (Q & A between presenters and attendance)

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-17:00 Business Talk

17:00-17:15 closing

Day 3 （June 12, Monday)

09:30-noon Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of TPLS (optional)