Publications
"The Impact of Television on Women's Empowerment in India" (with Hsin-Lan Ting and Ming-Jen Lin), Journal of Development Studies, 50(11): 1523-37, 2014. [Revised version of my M.A. thesis]
"Effect of Air Pollution on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Respiratory Diseases" (with Ya-Ming Liu), Health Economics (February 2021), 30: 858–875.
"Privatization of Water Supply and Human Capital Accumulation" Economics of Education Review (August 2021), 83: 102132.
"Industrialization, Household and Ambient Air Quality, and Elderly Mental Health" (with Yilin Dong and Pei-Fen Kuo), China Economic Review (October 2021), 69: 101676.
"The Public-Sector Family Planning Program Impact Scores in Association with Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in 22 Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Pooled Multi-Level Analysis" (with Asantesana Kamuyango, Tsung Yu, Susan C. Hu, Wen-Hsuan Hou, Ching-Cheng Tseng, Chung-Yi Li), Contraception (April 2022), 108: 44–49.
"How Currency and Banking Crises Influence Public Expenditure on Health: Evidence from Cross-country Data" Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting (December 2022), 10: 139-162.
"Associations of Urban Residence and Wealth Index with Various Sources of Contraceptives Among Young Women Aged 15-24 Years in 25 Sub-Saharan African Countries" (with Asantesana Kamuyango, Tsung Yu, Susan C. Hu, Lutfi Agus Salim, Yuly Sulistyorini, and Chung-Yi Li), Journal of Adolescent Health (January 2023).
"Physical Fitness and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk Among Children and Adolescents in Taiwan" (with Chun-Ying Wu, Li-Lin Liang, Hsiu J. Ho, Chen-Te Hsu, Hsiu-Tao Hsu, Chen-Yi Wu, Yi-Hsian Lin, Yi-Fang Chuang, Yao-Chun Hsu, Yi-Ju Chen, and Siew C Ng), JAMA pediatrics (May 2023), 177(6):608-616.
"Association of Air Quality Index (AQI) with incidence of atopic dermatitis in Taiwan: A nationwide population-based cohort Study" (with Chen-Yi Wu, Chun-Ying Wu, Meng-Chieh Li, and Hsiu J. Ho), Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (February 2024).
"Do Mortgage Interest Subsidies Affect Fertility and Housing Purchase Decisions? Evidence from an Aging Society" (with Chiang-Chi Chen & Fu-Min Tseng), Academia Economic Papers (March 2026), 54(1), 71-105.
"Land requisition, land rental markets, and regional heterogeneity in rural-urban migration" (with Fung Kwan & Lu Zhang), Review of Economics of the Household (July 2026), 1-45.
Working Papers
Quality Under the Sun: Examining the Effect of Temperature on Workers' Production Quality [Preliminarily draft. Draft available upon request]
“Municipal Water Filtration Development and Children's Human Capital Investment”
Awards: IPUMS Research Award for Best Work by a Graduate Student using IPUMS-USA data
This paper was previously circulated under the title "The Effect of Municipal Water Filtration on Children's School Enrollment and Employment in American Cities"
“Impacts of the Chernobyl Accident on the U.S. Newborns: Fetal Death and Birth Outcomes” (with Teng-Jen Chang and Ming-Jen Lin)
“The Effects of Political Reservations on Credit Access and Borrowing Composition: New Evidence from India” (with Somdeep Chatterjee). An Earlier version of this paper was under circulation as GLO Discussion Paper Series 227, Global Labor Organization (GLO) [link]
Work in Progress
“The Effect of Water Qualtiy on Elderly Health in China”