The 4^th Call for Papers

The 17^th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets

Celebrating the Release of the China Human Capital Report 2025

China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research (CHLR)

Central University of Finance and Economics

December 13-15, 2025
Beijing, China

    The conference will mark the release of the 17th annual China Human Capital Report 2025. It will feature distinguished keynote speeches, as well as plenary and parallel sessions on key topics related to human capital and labor markets on December 14. The event will be preceded by an onsite reception on December 13 and followed by a PIAAC/PISA workshop on December 15.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Flávio Cunha (in-person)

Professor and Ervin K. Zingler Chair, Department of Economics, Rice University, USA

Winner of Frisch Medal Award for “Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution in the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills”, Econometrica, 78(3), jointly authored with James Heckman and Susanne Schennach.

Specially Invited Discussants for China Human Capital Report 2025

Dr. Wenshu Gao (in-person)

Professor and Vice President, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Dr. Samuel Greiff (in-person)

Professor and Chair, Centre for International Student Assessment, Technical University Munich,

Germany

China Economic Review Special Issue

     All submissions accepted for presentations will be eligible for submission to a Special Issue

     of China Economic Review.

PIAAC/PISA Workshop

    This year, the conference will host a special workshop on Monday, December 15, focused on the use of OECD data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC, https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/pisa.html).

    Researchers working with these datasets are encouraged to submit their ongoing papers and select “PIAAC/PISA Workshop” as the submission category.

Submissions

We welcome papers on topics dealing with broad areas of human capital and labor markets.

Please submit an extended abstract (400-500 words in English) by October 31, 2025 online at: https://editorialexpress.com/conference/2025CHLR/

All parallel sessions will be held on-site only. Each session consists of paper presentations and discussion, both in English.

Authors working with PIAAC or PISA data should select the “PIAAC/PISA Workshop” submission category. All other papers should be submitted under “General Submission”.

Decision notifications will be announced on a rolling basis. Early submission is encouraged if needed for visa application. All notifications will be announced by November 11.

All papers accepted for presentation must be submitted to the conference by December 1, 2025, so that the discussions will have enough time to prepare comments.

Information on Past Conferences

Check the website: http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/en/hcc/hcc/Call_for_papers.htm#

Contact Information

Please check the CHLR website for updated information:

http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/  (Chinese)

http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/en (English)

Email chlr_conference@163.com for questions

Call CHLR office (Ms. Rong Huang or Ms. Lingxuan Zhu), 010-6228-8298

Organizing Committee
Haizheng Li (Chair), Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Belton Fleisher (Co-Chair), Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University and CHLR
Zhiqiang Liu, (Co-Chair), Professor, SUNY at Buffalo

Faculty Coordinator

Fanzheng Yang (Coordinator), Associate Professor (Ph.D., Iowa State University), CHLR

Chen Huang (Coordinator), Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Arizona), CHLR

Special-term/Visiting Professor

Cynthia A. Bansak, Professor, St. Lawrence University and CHLR

Barbara Fraumeni, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern Maine and CHLR

Steven Lehrer, Professor, Queen’s University and CHLR

Hongyi Li, Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Patrick McCarthy, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology and CHLR

Xiaojun Wang, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii and CHLR

CHLR full-time faculty

Sophie Wang, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Simon Fraser University)

Ning Jia, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame)

Nina Yin, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Toulouse School of Economics)

Yi Zhang, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Tilburg University)

Yulong Chen, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Iowa State University)

Ya Gao, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Groningen)

Main Program Structure