Working Papers

• • "College Loans and Human Capital Investment" with Chao Fu and Hsuan-Chih Lin, revision requested at International Economic Review
    [Paper] This version: September 2025. Previously circulated as: "College Loans and Post-schooling Skill Accumulation"

  • "Financial Constraints, Productivity, and Labour Growth During the Great Recession: Evidence from Canada" with Mark Anderson and Dongning Yu [Paper]

Publications 

• "Healthcare Utilization and Labour Market Responses to Health Shocks"  with Heng-Jui Chang, Chih-Han Hsueh, and Hsuan-Chih Lin, accepted at Canadian Journal of Economics 
  [Paper][Online Appendix] This version: July 2024. Previously circulated as: "Estimating the Direct and Indirect Costs of Health Reduction: Evidence from Administrative Data"

• "The Effects of Labor Market Opportunities on Education: The Case of Female Hiring Ceiling in Iran" with Safoura Moeeni, Journal of Public Economics, 224, August 2023 [Paper]

• "Shifting from Pay-as-You-Go to Individual Retirement Accounts: A Path to a Sustainable Pension System" with Hsuan-Chih Lin and Po-Shyan Wu, Journal of Macroeconomics, 69, September 2021; [Paper] [Online Appendix]   

• "The Effects of Sudden Health Reductions on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Incidence of Stroke"  Health Economics, 30: 1480-1497, June 2021 [Paper]

• "Employee Investment and Screening based on Labor Force Attachment" with Hsuan-Chih Lin, Economics Bulletin, 40 (2), 1349-1356, May 2020 [Paper] [Online Appendix]   

• "Pension Reform in Taiwan: a Macroeconomic Analysis" (with Yu-Hsiang Cheng and Hsuan-Chih Lin) Taiwan Economic Review, 48(1): 1-20, March 2020 [Paper]

Selected Work in Progress

• • "Strategic Medical Treatment Choice v.s. Altruism: Evidence from Physician’s Reaction to Reimbursement Reform (Tentative Title)" with Chao Fu, Jesse Gregory, Hsuan-Chih Lin

  • “Audit Firm Personnel Turnover and Earnings Management” with Keval Amin, Rajiv D. Banker, and Seok-Young Lee

  • "Donor Perception, Poverty Aversion and the Allocation of Foreign Aid" with Nancy H. Chau and David R. Just 

• • "Statistical Discrimination, Occupational Sorting, and Career Opportunities"  with Hsuan-Chih Lin