My Research

Peer-reviewed Publications (by area):

  Imbalanced Sex Ratio

1. "Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality," (with Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang), 2024, Journal of Human Resources. 59(2), pages 604-626. (accepted in 2021) Click here for Data & Do Files

2. "The Sex Ratio and Global Sodomy Law Reform in the Post-WWII Era," 2021,  Journal of Population Economics, 34(2), page 401-430.

3. "What Will You Do If I Say I Do'": the Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples," (with Rachel Connelly and Ping Ma), 2016, Population Research and Policy Review, 35(4), page 471-500. 

4. “Mating Competition and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan,” (with Xiaobo Zhang), 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, page 292-309.

5. “Civil War, Marriage Ban and Sex Ratio: Impute the Prime-age Sex Ratio in Post-war Taiwan Using Censored Data,” 2013, Asian Population Studies, 9(1), page 101-118

  Health & Environment

1. “Do Good Carefully: The Long-term Effect of DDT Exposure in Early Childhood on Education and Employment,” 2022, (with Kamhon Kan), Health Economics, 32(4), page 807-821.

2. "DDT Exposure in Early Childhood and Female Breast Cancer: Evidence from an Ecological Study in Taiwan," (with Sonia El-Zaemey, Jane Heyworth and Meng-chi Tang), 2018, Environment International, 121, page 1106-1112.

3. “Long-term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan,” (with Belton Fleisher, Seonghoon Kim and Shi-yung Liu), 2014, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 62(3), page 519-536

4. “The Determinants of Health Care Expenditure towards the End of Life: Evidence from Taiwan,” (with Yang He and Chee-Ruey Hsieh), 2014, Health Economics, 23, page 951-961.

5. “The Effect of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance on Mortality of the Elderly: Revisited,” 2012, Health Economics, 21, page 1257-1270.

6. “The Healer or the Druggist: Effects of Two Health Care Policies in Taiwan on Elderly Patients’ Choice between Physician and Pharmacist Services,” International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, June 2009, 9(2), page 137-152. (published under the name Kang-Hung Chang)

  Education

1. "Does Tertiary Education Expansion Affect the Fertility of Women Past the College-entry Age?” 2023, (with Tushar Bharati and Qing Li), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 212, page 1029-1055.

2. "Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualification," (with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nicolas Salamanca), 2022, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, page 419-446.

  China

1. "Be a Good Samaritan to a Good Samaritan: Field Evidence of Other-regarding Preferences in China," (with Thomas Dee, Chun Wing Tse and Li Yu), 2016, China Economic Review, 41, page 23-33.

2. “Evolution of the Interindustry Wage Structure in China since the 1980s,” (with O Hyun Kwan and Belton Fleisher), 2015, Pacific Economic Review, 20(1), page 17-44.

Other Publilications:

1.  "The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Result,” (with David A. Jaeger et al.), Covid Economics, Issue 79,  IZA Discussion Paper No. 14419 

Working Papers:

1.  "Ambient Air Pollution and Helping Behavior: Evidence from the Streets in Beijing," (with Ishita Chatterjee and Li Yu)

2.  "Bombing and Body Mass Index: the Case of Vietnam," (with Vu Vuong and Michael Palmer) IZA Discussion Paper No. 14443. 

Work in Progress:

1. “Land Reforms and the Industrialization in Taiwan,” (with Qing Huang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang) 

2.   “Fighting Fire with Fire: Is Indigenous Knowledge of Cultural Burning Helping Us Combat Bushfires in Australia?” (with Tushar Bharati and Sofia Chaves)

3.  “Higher Education Expansion and Entrepreneurship,” (with Tushar Bharati and Kamhon Kan)

4.  “Educational Migration in Australia,” (with Tushar Bharati and Cara Mezzatesta)

5.  “Median Voter Theory and Referenda in Taiwan,” (with Terry Cheng and David Stadelmann)

6.  “Return Migration, the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement and Racial Segregation in Modern America,” (with Thomas Favory, Johannes Matzat and Chris Parsons)