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, January 2026
Also available from [RFBerlin][Harvard Business School]
Coverage: [Cato Institute][Forbes][VoxEU]
joint with Jorge De la Roca, February 2026
Presentation: ASSA 2027 (Schedule), WEAI, UEA 2026 Barcelona*, NBER Race and Stratification, Taiwan Economic Research Workshop (TER), National Cheng Kung University, TCUS Economics Conference, University of Padova (dSEA)*, MEA 2024August 2026
Presentation: EcoSta2026joint with Da-Kai Wu
Empirical Economics, R&R, January 2026
Presentation: Chunghua Association of Public Finance Annual Meeting*, Taiwan Economic Association Annual Conference (TEA)*joint with Yung-Chia Li
joint with Yi-Ru Chang
joint with Jack Chapel
Presentation: MMW 2026, EHA 2026, MEA 2024*
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)