Min Thura Mon
PhD Candidate in Economics · Macro-Labor
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at CMU, specializing in macroeconomics and labor economics. I study inequality and human capital formation, focusing on how households, firms, labor markets, and institutions shape economic opportunities and long-run development in emerging economies. My secondary research interests are in energy and environmental economics, examining how environmental shocks and the energy transition reshape labor markets, human capital, and firm dynamics.
Methodologically, I work with causal inference, causal machine learning, and structural modeling, including heterogeneous-agent, life-cycle and overlapping-generations models.
I am also an affiliate scholar at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at KCL. I hold graduate degrees in Economics and Environmental Management.
Research
Primary Fields: Labor Economics and Macroeconomics
Secondary Fields: Energy and Environmental Economics
Peer-reviewed Articles
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Revisiting the Glass Ceiling: Covariate Choice, Job Assignment, and Japan's Gender Wage Gap
wih Supanika Leurcharusmee & Thierry Denoeux — Under submission (2026)
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Who Can Protect Their Consumption? Market Completeness, Weather Risk, and Welfare Inequality among Thai Smallholders
with Supanika Leurcharusmee, Woraphon Yamaka & Roengchai Tansuchat — Under submission (2026)
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Asset Income, Public Transfers, and Children’s Schooling in Rural Thailand
with Supanika Leurcharusmee & Roengchai Tansuchat — Under submission (2026)
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Dropout Intention Among Thai Adolescents: Which Barriers Bind?
with Supanika Leurcharusmee — Under submission (2026)
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility under Credit Access: Evidence from Rural Thailand
with Supanika Leurcharusmee & Roengchai Tansuchat. — Under submission (2026)
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Screening CO2 storage opportunities in data-constrained basins: source-sink matching for Myanmar
with Romal Ramadhan. — Under submission (2026)
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CCUS Technology and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the United States
with Roengchai Tansuchat & Woraphon Yamaka — Energies, 17(7), 1748 (2024)
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Underused Geothermal Potential in Southeast Asia's Net-Zero Transition
with Romal Ramadhan — Geoscience Frontiers, 102331 (2026)
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Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Indonesia: Storage Capacity, Current Status, Economic Viability, and Policy
with Romal Ramadhan — Energy Geoscience, 100335 (2024)
Published
Works in Progress
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Carbon Capture and Storage Under Geological Uncertainty in Developing Countries
with Romal Ramadhan — 2026
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Growing Up Without Parents: Skipped-Generation Households and Human Capital in Rural Thailand
with Yulin Wang — 2026
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School Dropout over the Educational Life Course: Evidence from Thailand
with Jirakom Sirisrisakulchai & Supanika Leurcharusmee — 2026
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Transboundary PM2.5 Smoke and Public Health: Evidence from Rural Thailand
with Supanika Leurcharusmee & Roengchai Tansuchat — 2026
In Progress
Teaching
Mathematical Economics
An intensive undergraduate course, part of the Foundation Economics Course at Inya Economics. Textbook: Chiang, A. C. and Wainwright, K. (2005). Fundamental methods of mathematical economics (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. Class materials are freely available because education is a public good.
Statistics and Econometrics
Covered the econometrics component of the Foundation Economics Course at Inya Economics (2024).
Awards & Scholarships
- Sir John Monash Scholarship for Excellence (M.Res.) Monash University, AU
- Presidential Scholarship — Active Recruitment (M.Econ. & Ph.D.) Chiang Mai University, TH
- ASEAN Graduate Scholarship Chulalongkorn University, TH
- Top Paper Award — Business Strategy & Decision-making (RQF Lv.6) ABE, UK
- First Position, Upper Second Honours Class University of Yangon, MM
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