Research
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).
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: 2015 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"
“Regional Rural‒Urban Migration in China: Land Tenure Security and Land Rentals” (with Fung Kwan and Lu Zhang) [Draft available upon request]
“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”