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Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
Monash University, Australia
Contact Information:
Email: fanxiaodong@gmail.com (or) Xiaodong.Fan@monash.edu
Office phone: +61 3 9905 2414 (Room 328, Building 6, Clayton)
CV (pdf)
Fields of Interest (research and teaching)
Labor Economics
Computational Economics
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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 Effect of Compulsory Education on Retirement Financial Outcomes: Evidence from China (September 2021. accepted at Scandinavian Journal of Economics)
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)
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
with Chao He
Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement (Nov 2019. revised and resubmitted at Journal of Political Economy)
with Ananth Seshadri & Christopher Taber
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
Intermediate Microeconomics (ECC2000), 2017--2021.
University of New South Wales
Mathematical Economics (ECON 3202/5402), 2016.