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, 635-657.
Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development (with Kai Liu), Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming).
Minimum Wage and Employment in the U.S.: An Application of Bayesian Quantile Kink Regression (with Akbar Zamanzadeh), Econometric Reviews (forthcoming).
The ATO ALife Family File (with D. Fischer, J. Holland, C. Polidano, H. Vu and R. Wilkins), Australian Economic Review (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)