Yi-Ju Hung (洪以儒)
Welcome to my website. I am an assistant professor of economics at National Chung Cheng University in Chiayi, Taiwan.
My research mainly focuses on geographic and social mobility and their interactions, spanning labor economics, economic geography, and economic history. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California in 2024.
joint with James Feigenbaum, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella
NBER Working Paper, 34775, Revised November 2026
Also available from [NBER][RFBerlin][Harvard Business School]
Coverage: [Cato Institute][Forbes][VoxEU]
joint with Jorge De la Roca, February 2026
Presentation: AEA 2027 (scheduled), WEAI, UEA 2026 Barcelona*, NBER Race and Stratification, TER Workshop, National Cheng Kung University, TCUS Economics Conference, University of Padova (dSEA)*, MEA 2024November 2026
Presentation: TEA 2026 (scheduled), EcoSta2026 (Kyoto)joint with Da-Kai Wu
Empirical Economics, R&R, November 2026
Presentation: Chunghua Association of Public Finance Annual Meeting*, TEA 2024*joint with Yung-Chia Li
Presentation: TEA 2026 (scheduled)*joint with Yi-Ru Chang
Presentation: TEA 2026 (scheduled)*joint with Jack Chapel
Presentation: MMW 2026, EHA 2026, MEA 2024*
joint with Fu-Min Tseng and Wen-Yuan Cheng
Presentation: TEA 2026 (scheduled)*November 2023
Presentation: National Chung Cheng University, CIER, All California Labor Economics Conference (ACLEC), CSU Long Beach, Data-Intensive Research Conference (NDIRA) (Poster), EHA (Poster), USC, SSHA, Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics (SOCAE)