Graduate Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 1981–1983.
Graduate Fellowship, Chinese Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1983–1984.
Dissertation Fellowship, Population Council, 1984–1985.
Distinguished Research Awards, National Science Council, Taiwan, four times, 1989–1996.
Research Achievement Award, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 1991.
Rockefeller Foundation Population Science Fellow, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, 1991–1992.
John Olin Foundation Law and Economics Fellow, Low School, Stanford University, 1991–1992.
Outstanding Research Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan, 1995–2000.
Olin Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School, 1998.
Ministry of Education National Chair Professor, 1998–2000.
Elected Academician, Academia Sinica, 1998.
Keynote Speaker to International Conference on Increasing Return and Economic Analysis, Monash, Australia, 1998.
Keynote Speaker to First International Conference on Demographic Dynamics, Rostock, Germany, 1999.
Keynote Speaker to Asian Population Network Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2000.
Keynote Speaker to Fifth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, 2002.
Presidential Science Prize, Taiwan, 2003.
Keynote Speaker to First Animal Conference of Asian Law and Economics Association, Seoul, Korea 2005.
The Submilch Lecture, Max Planck Institute of Demography, 2009.
Elected Member, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2010.
Elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 2017.