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, Department of Economics, 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
Other Affiliations:
2018 - present Research Affiliate, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
2018 - present Affiliate, Centre for Market Design, University of Melbourne
2017 - 2022 Visiting Fellow (honorary appointment), EDG, University of Technology Sydney
2014 - 2017 Core Member, Centre for Policy and Market Design, UTS
2010 - 2012 Affiliate, China Center for Public Finance, Peking University
Research interests:
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 (forthcoming).
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development (with Kai Liu), Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming).
Teaching and Other Professional Experience:
2017 - present University of Melbourne:
Econometrics 1 (undergraduate)
Advanced Econometric Techniques 1, 2 (PhD 1st year)
Computational Economics and Business (undergrad/master)
Treatment Effect and Program Evaluation (master)
Computational Economics (PhD)
Dynamic Structural Econometrics (PhD reading topics)
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)
Selected Service:
2017 – present University of Melbourne:
Econometric Society Australasian Meetings, Invited Speaker (applied economics) (2023)
Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society program committee (2023)
Econometric Society Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics, Lecturer (2022)
Econometric Society Australasian Meetings program committee (2021)
Undergraduate program coordinator (2019-23)
Junior faculty mentoring committee (2017-22)
Course unsatisfactory progress committee (2017, 2018-19 (chair))
Senior academic hiring committee (2018-19)
PhD program review committee (2017, 2018)
Interview panel for Teaching Specialists (2018)
Interview panel for Foundation Fellow, Melbourne Institute (2018)
2012 – 2016 University of Technology Sydney:
Seminar coordinator (2014 - 2016)
Econometric Society Australasian Meetings program committee (2016)
PhD program review committee (2016)
PhD comprehensive exams coordinator (2015, 2016)
Academic recruiting committee (2015, 2016)
Faculty board in Business School (2013 - 2015)
BEc program review committee (2014, 2015)
2010 - 2012 Peking University:
Research grant and fellowship committee (2010 – 2012)
Student exchange program committee (2010 – 2012)
Academic recruiting committee (2010, 2011)
Symposium on China’s Public Finance program committee (2011)
Fellowships, Sponsorships, Grants, Etc.
2023 Co-Investigator, National Science & Technology Council (Taiwan) Research Grant, 2023-26
(#112WIA0110696), with K. Kan (Academia Sinica) and M-C. Tang (CCU).
2019 Co-Investigator, British Academy / Leverhulme SRG, 2019-2022
(#SRG1819\191395), with Kai Liu (Cambridge).
2019 Cambridge-INET Institute Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
2018 Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2018-2023
(#LP170101045. Partner: Australian Taxation Office),
with Roger Wilkins (MelbInst), Cain Polidano (MelbInst), Ha Vu (Deakin), Andrew Carter (ATO) and Hang To (ATO).
2018 Chief Investigator, National Social Science Fund of China, 2018-2020
(#18BGL246), with Guohua Zeng (JXUST).
2017 The Deans’ Prize for Exceptional Distinction in Research (Associate and Full Professors),
University of Melbourne.
2014 John Weatherall Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
2012 Principal Investigator, Early Career Researcher Grant, UTS.
2012 Teaching Award in Humanities and Social Sciences (1 out of 3 Silver Prizes), Peking University.
2011 Freeman Foundation Fellowship, Salzburg Global Seminars,
(“Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia”).
Selected Evaluation Reports:
Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Final Evaluation of Project GATE
(with J. Benus, T. Shen, S. Zhang and B. Hansen),
prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor (2010), ETAOP series 2010-08, 1-222.
(URL: https://www.doleta.gov/reports/projectgate/)
Email: marc "dot" chan "at" unimelb.edu.au
Full CV available upon request.