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Lecturer
Department of Economics
Monash University, Australia
Contact Information:
- Email: fanxiaodong@gmail.com (or) Xiaodong.Fan@monash.edu
- Mobile phone: +61 420 284 963
- Office phone: +61 3 9905 2414 (E878 Menzies Building)
- Google Voice: +1 (608) 616 5460 (USA)
CV (pdf)
Fields of Interest (research and teaching)
- Labor Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Computational Economics
- Macroeconomics
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012
- M.S., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
- M.E., B.E., Tsinghua University, China, 2003
Publication
- 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
- Preparing for population ageing: Estimating the cost of formal aged care in China (The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, accepted)
with Hong Mi, Bei Lu, Liming Cai & John Piggott
Working Papers
- 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
with Jed DeVaro
Media: Sydney Morning Herald
- Retiring Cold Turkey (August 2015)
- Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement (April 2015. revision requested at Journal of Political Economy)
with Ananth Seshadri & Christopher Taber
- More Can Be Less: Multi-market Simultaneous Search (August 2017)
with Chao He
- "Threshold Regression With A Threshold Boundary", (January 2019)
with Ping Yu
Works in Progress
- Testing the Effect of Implicit Contracts in Manager Compensation, with Shaojin Li
- Understanding Personal Bankruptcy Behavior: A Structural Model With Emphasis on Labor Supply and Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions, with Berk Yavuzoglu
Teaching Experience
- Monash University
- Intermediate Microeconomics (ECC2000), 2017S2, 2018S2.
- University of New South Wales (Teaching Evaluations)
- Mathematical Economics (ECON 3202/5402), 2016. Comments from students)
References
Available upon request
Selected Non-economics Publications
- Study on Improvement of Workflow Management System of PDM, with Wenhui Fan & Guangleng Xiong, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2002), vol. 3, Hammamet, Tunisia.
- Product Development Process Intelligent Analysis and Improvement Technology in PDM, with Yong Yao, Guangleng Xiong & Wenhui Fan, China Mechanical Engineering, 2004, 15(20), 1857-1861. (In Chinese)
- Application and Development of Simulation Technology in Car Industry, with Guangleng Xiong, Keming Wang, Binyuan Chen, Liuhui Yang & Danni Wang, Journal of System Simulation, 2004, 16(1), 73-78. (In Chinese)