The Asian Development Bank and the Korea Development Institute will hold the first Asian Development Conference on 16-17 July 2020 in Seoul. The objective of the conference is to promote the discussion of high-quality, frontline research on Asian development among social scientists, development practitioners, and policy makers.

The theme of the conference is Demographic Change and Human Capital in Asia. Resource speakers include Isaac Ehrlich (State University of New York at Buffalo), Hongbin Li (Stanford University), Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University), and Naohiro Ogawa (University of Tokyo).

We invite submissions of unpublished empirical papers, survey articles, historical analyses, and policy-oriented work that advance the understanding of the link between demographic change and human capital in Asia. Topics relevant to the theme include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Demographic change, human capital investment, and economic growth
• Implications of demographic change on monetary and fiscal policies
• Effects of demographic transformation on investment and savings
• Demographic shifts, labor markets, and industrial structure
• Panel studies of aging and demographic change
• Poverty, inequality, and aging
• Financial inclusion of the elderly
• Universal health coverage and long-term care
• Economic analysis of physical and mental health of the elderly
• Policy evaluation of demographic change (education, human resource development policies, retirement, welfare, and housing)
• Experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to demographic change analysis 

Interested authors must register and submit a paper by 15 January 2020 here. The paper should include authors’ affiliation and contact information.

Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance in the Asian context. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by 15 March 2020.

Authors of accepted papers will also have the opportunity to submit their papers for special issues in the Asian Development Review (Guest Editor: Isaac Ehrlich) and in the KDI Journal of Economic Policy.