{"id":733,"date":"2025-04-12T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:52:57","slug":"tosok-best-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/04\/12\/tosok-best-paper-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student Kevin Hwang Honored with TOSOK Best Paper Award at THEREPS 2025 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"396\">Congratulations to Kevin Hwang, PhD student, on receiving the TOSOK Best Paper Award at the THEREPS 2025 Conference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"586\">The award-winning paper, titled<br data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"432\" \/><strong data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"545\">\u201c(Tip) Minimum Wage Policies and Employee Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S. Tourism &amp; Hospitality Industry,\u201d<\/strong><br data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"548\" \/>was coauthored with Dr. Yang Yang.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"799\">This study provides timely and rigorous evidence on how minimum wage policies shape employee well-being in the U.S. tourism and hospitality sector, offering important insights for both scholars and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"860\">Well done, Kevin, on this well-deserved recognition! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"860\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kahtea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4619-1024x683.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"860\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kevin Hwang, PhD student, on receiving the TOSOK Best Paper Award at the THEREPS 2025 Conference. The award-winning paper, titled\u201c(Tip) Minimum Wage Policies and Employee Well-Being: Evidence from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2014\/11\/05\/graduate-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":0},"title":"Student\u2013Faculty Research Accepted for Stand-Up Presentation at National Hospitality and Tourism Conference","author":"Yang Yang","date":"November 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A\u00a0paper co-authored by Dr. Yang Yang and MTHM student Jing-huei Huang, entitled\u00a0\u201cNeighborhood Characteristics and Restaurant Location in the United States\u201d, has been accepted for a STAND UP PRESENTATION at\u00a0the 20th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Publication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Publication","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/publication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2014\/11\/tn.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2014\/11\/tn.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2014\/11\/tn.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1000321,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/04\/16\/2025-t-h-e-analytics-case-competition\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":1},"title":"STHM Hosts 2025 T.H.E. 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