Marc K. Chan

Education:

2009    Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University

2005    M.A. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University

2003    Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong

Employment:

2022 - Present        Professor of Econometrics, University of Melbourne

2017 - 2021              Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

2012 - 2017              Senior Lecturer, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

2010 - 2012              Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University

2009 - 2010              Research Associate (Labor Policy), IMPAQ International, DC

Research interests:

Economics and Econometrics. (Labour Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics, Health Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance.)

Publications:

•  A Dynamic Model of Welfare Reform, Econometrica (2013), 81(3), pp.941-1001.

• Who Receives Unemployment Insurance? (with Marios Michaelides and Sisi Zhang) Research in Applied Economics (2014), 6(3), pp.98-128.

• Capital Account Liberalization and Dynamic Price Discovery: Evidence from Chinese Cross-Listed Stocks (with Simon Kwok), Applied Economics (2016), 48(6), pp.517-535.

• Risk Sharing, Market Imperfections, Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market Liberalization (with Simon Kwok), Journal of Banking and Finance (2017), 84, pp.166-187.

• Welfare Dependence and Self-Control: An Empirical Analysis, Review of Economic Studies (2017), 84(4), pp.1379-1423.

• Connecting the Markets? Recent Evidence on China’s Capital Account Liberalization (with Simon Kwok), Economic Modelling (2018), 70, pp.417-428.

• Unintended Consequence of Supply-Side Cost Control? Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (with Guohua Zeng), Journal of Health Economics (2018), 61, pp.27-46.

• Welfare Reform and the Labor Market (with Robert Moffitt), Annual Review of Economics (2018), 10, pp.347-381.

• Measuring the Effects of Welfare Time Limits, Journal of Human Resources (2018), 53(1), pp.232-271.

• Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms (with Kai Liu), Quantitative Economics (2018), 9(2), pp.659-706.

• Unemployment Duration, Fiscal and Monetary Policies, and the Output Gap: How do the Quantile Relationships Look Like?  (with Akbar Zamanzadeh, Mohammad Ehsani and Mojtaba Ganjali), Economic Modelling (2020), 91, pp.613-632.

• Cream Skimming: Theory and Evidence from Hospital Transfers and Capacity Utilization (with Ou Yang, Terence Cheng and Jongsay Yong), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2020), 173, pp.68-87.

• The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife): A New Resource for Retirement Policy Research (with C.Polidano, A.Carter, A.Chigavazira, H.To, J.Holland, S.Nguyen, H.Vu and R.Wilkins), Australian Economic Review (2020), 53, pp.429-449.

• The PCDID Approach: Difference-in-Differences when Trends are Potentially Unparallel and Stochastic (with Simon Kwok), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (2022), 40, pp.1216-1233.

•  Income and Saving Responses to Tax Incentives for Private Retirement Savings (with Todd Morris, Cain Polidano and Ha Vu), Journal of Public Economics (2022), 206, pp.1-18.

• The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt (with Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu and Roger Wilkins), Journal of Labor Economics (2024), 42, pp.635-657.

• Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development (with Kai Liu), Journal of Labor Economics (2025), 43, pp.399-444.

• Minimum Wage and Employment in the U.S.: An Application of Bayesian Quantile Kink Regression (with Akbar Zamanzadeh), Econometric Reviews (2025), 44, pp.673-695.

• The ATO ALife Family File (with D. Fischer, J. Holland, C. Polidano, H. Vu and R. Wilkins), Australian Economic Review (2025), 58, pp.163-172.

• Are Targeted Matching Schemes Effective in Stimulating Retirement Savings? (with Cain Polidano, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins, Andrew Carter and Hang To), Economic Journal (forthcoming).

• Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives (with Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kai Liu), Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming).

Teaching and Other Professional Experience:

2017 - present    University of Melbourne:

                                            Econometrics 1 (undergraduate)

                                     Computational Economics and Business (undergrad/master)

                                     Treatment Effect and Program Evaluation (master)

                                     Advanced Econometric Techniques 1, 2 (PhD 1st year)

                                     Computational Economics (PhD)

                                     Dynamic Structural Econometrics (PhD reading topics)

                                     Demand forecasting (professional interest)

2012 - 2016         University of Technology Sydney:

                                     Economics for Business II (intro micro and macro)

                                     Introductory Econometrics

                                     Economic Modelling / Econometrics II (honours, postgraduate)

2010 - 2012         Peking University:

                                     Law and Economics (as part of the PKU-Yale joint undergraduate program)

                                     Empirical Public Economics (postgraduate)

                                     Chinese Economy (short summer course for exchange students)

2006 - 2008         Johns Hopkins University:

                                     Mathematics for Economists (math camp for PhD students)

2004 - 2009         Johns Hopkins University:

                                     Research Assistant to Robert Moffitt and Christopher Carroll

                                     Teaching Assistant for Microeconomic Theory (PhD) and Macroeconomic Theory (PhD)