Peer-reviewed Publications (by area): (All the podcasts are generated using Google’s NotebookLM)
Imbalanced Sex Ratios
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“The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia’s Convict History,” 2025, (with Sefa Awaworyi, Russell Smyth, and Trong-Anh Trinh), 2025, Journal of Business Venturing. 40(6), 106539. Click here to listen to a short podcast about this paper.
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“Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality,” (with Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang), 2024, Journal of Human Resources. 59(2), pages 604-626. Click here for Data & Do Files
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“The Sex Ratio and Global Sodomy Law Reform in the Post-WWII Era,” 2021, Journal of Population Economics, 34(2), page 401-430.
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“What Will You Do If I Say I Do'”: the Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples,” (with Rachel Connelly and Ping Ma), 2016, Population Research and Policy Review, 35(4), page 471-500.
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“Mating Competition and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan,” (with Xiaobo Zhang), 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, page 292-309.
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“Civil War, Marriage Ban and Sex Ratio: Impute the Prime-age Sex Ratio in Post-war Taiwan Using Censored Data,” 2013, Asian Population Studies, 9(1), page 101-118
Health & Environment
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“Do Good Carefully: The Long-term Effect of DDT Exposure in Early Childhood on Education and Employment,” 2022, (with Kamhon Kan), Health Economics, 32(4), page 807-821.
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“DDT Exposure in Early Childhood and Female Breast Cancer: Evidence from an Ecological Study in Taiwan,” (with Sonia El-Zaemey, Jane Heyworth and Meng-chi Tang), 2018, Environment International, 121, page 1106-1112.
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“Long-term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan,” (with Belton Fleisher, Seonghoon Kim and Shi-yung Liu), 2014, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 62(3), page 519-536
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“The Determinants of Health Care Expenditure towards the End of Life: Evidence from Taiwan,” (with Yang He and Chee-Ruey Hsieh), 2014, Health Economics, 23, page 951-961.
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“The Effect of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance on Mortality of the Elderly: Revisited,” 2012, Health Economics, 21, page 1257-1270.
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“The Healer or the Druggist: Effects of Two Health Care Policies in Taiwan on Elderly Patients’ Choice between Physician and Pharmacist Services,” International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, June 2009, 9(2), page 137-152. (published under the name Kang-Hung Chang)
Education
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“Does Tertiary Education Expansion Affect the Fertility of Women Past the College-entry Age?” 2023, (with Tushar Bharati and Qing Li), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 212, page 1029-1055.
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“Parents’ Responses to Teacher Qualification,” (with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nicolas Salamanca), 2022, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, page 419-446.
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China
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“Be a Good Samaritan to a Good Samaritan: Field Evidence of Other-regarding Preferences in China,” (with Thomas Dee, Chun Wing Tse and Li Yu), 2016, China Economic Review, 41, page 23-33.
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“Evolution of the Interindustry Wage Structure in China since the 1980s,” (with O Hyun Kwan and Belton Fleisher), 2015, Pacific Economic Review, 20(1), page 17-44.
Other Publilications:
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“The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Result,” (with David A. Jaeger et al.), Covid Economics, Issue 79, IZA Discussion Paper No. 14419
Working Papers:
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“Helping under Haze: Evidence from Lost-Letter Field Experiments in Beijing and Delhi,” 2025, (with Ishita Chatterjee and Li Yu)” A previous version is entitled as “Ambient Air Pollution and Helping Behavior: Evidence from the Streets in Beijing,” (with Ishita Chatterjee and Li Yu) IZA Discussion Paper No. 17011.
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“Bombing and Body Mass Index: the Case of Vietnam,” (with Vu Vuong and Michael Palmer) IZA Discussion Paper No. 14443.
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“Climate Change Complicates Bushfire Prevention Efforts in Australia,” (with Tushar Bharati and Sofia Chaves)
Work in Progress:
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“Land Reforms and the Industrialization in Taiwan,” (with Qing Huang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang)
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“Higher Education Expansion and Entrepreneurship,” (with Tushar Bharati, Kamhon Kan and Qing Li)
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“Educational Migration in Australia,” (with Tushar Bharati and Cara Mezzatesta)
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“Median Voter Theory and Referenda in Taiwan,” (with Terry Cheng and David Stadelmann)
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“Parental Peer Effects,” (with Tushar Bharati and Yanli Lin)
