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Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
Monash University, Australia
Contact Information:
Email: fanxiaodong@gmail.com (or) Xiaodong.Fan@monash.edu
Office: Room 328, Building 6, Clayton (29 Ancora Imparo Way, map)
Office phone: +61 3 9905 2414
CV (pdf)
Fields of Interest (research and teaching)
Labor Economics
Computational Economics
Search and Matching
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012
M.S., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
M.E., B.E., Automation, Tsinghua University, China, 2003
Publication
The Paradox of Search Intensity (Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, Vol. 221, Page 105891)
with Chao He
Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement (Journal of Political Economy, 2024, Vol. 132, No. 1, Page 48-95)
with Ananth Seshadri & Christopher Taber
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Retirement Financial Outcomes: Evidence from China (Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 958-989)
with Bingzheng Chen & Peiyun Deng
Threshold Regression With A Threshold Boundary (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021, Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 953-971)
with Ping Yu
Job Hopping and Adverse Selection in the Labor Market (Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2020, Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 84-138)
with Jed DeVaro (media: Sydney Morning Herald)
Preparing for population ageing: Estimating the cost of formal aged care in China (Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, Volume 17, Page 100183)
with Hong Mi, Bei Lu, Liming Cai & John Piggott
Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults (Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 128, No. 610, pp. 1047-1094)
with Loretti Dobrescu, Hazel Bateman, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann & Susan Thorp
Working Papers
with Chao He & Jingnan Liu
Parental Employment, Absence and Children's Educational Gender Gap (new version coming soon)
with Hanming Fang & Simen Markussen
An earlier version of this paper was circulated under the title: Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap (May 2015)
NBER Working Paper No. 21183
Media: Sydney Morning Herald, ABC RN/Life Matters
Retiring Cold Turkey (August 2015)
Works in Progress
Why a College Educated Spouse Brings Healthy Life
with Elena Capatina
Female Labor Supply, Fertility, and Human Capital
with Christopher Taber
Teaching Experience
Monash University
Principles of Microeconomics (ECC1000), 2024--present.
Intermediate Microeconomics (ECC2000), 2017--2023.
University of New South Wales
Mathematical Economics (ECON 3202/5402), 2016.