Applied Microeconomics (Labor, Industrial Organization), Political Economy
"Estimating the Willingness to Pay for the Civic Value When Absentee Voting Is Not Allowed", with C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Wen-Jen Tsay
When absentee voting is allowed, people’s willingness to travel to vote is limited, and hence the time and pecuniary cost of voting have relatively narrow ranges. In this paper we use an unique traveling and booklet data to analyze the sensitivity of turnout rates with respect to travel time and cost. The country we study is Taiwan where, as many other Asian countries, only in-person voting is allowed. We first identify irregular transportation in the voting weekend relative to other regular weekends, and then match such irregular traveling with the number of citizens whose registration counties are not the same as their residing counties. We use the BLP (1995) method to generate consistent estimators and counterfactual analysis. As compared to the observed 30.14% turnout rates of the non-registered voters in the 2014 Taiwan’s local election, the simulations suggest that the turnout rates would be 56.49% when convenient voting is allowed, i.e. via web or electronic voting.
2016 Taiwan Economic Association Conference Dec. 17, 2016
“Estimating the Willingness to Pay for the Civic Value When Absentee Voting Is Not Allowed”
Research Assistant to Professor Wen-Jen Tsay July. 2016 - Present
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant to Professor C. Y. Cyrus Chu Feb. 2015 - June. 2016
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Administrative Assistant to Professor Semin Kim Sep. 2014 - Mar. 2016
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Grader to Professor Yun-Peng Chu Sep. 2014 - Feb. 2015
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Course: Economic Development in East Asia (graduate level)
Supervisor of Loss Prevention Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
RT-Mart, Tainan, Taiwan
Financial Specialist Oct 2008 - Sep 2009
298th Brigade Training Squad, R.O.C. Army, Pingtung, Taiwan
• Awarded for prompt recovery action and focused leadership in the flood caused by Typhoon Morakot on Aug. 8th, 2009.
Language Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)
Computer MATLAB, R (DataCamp certificated), STATA, LaTex
C. Y. Cyrus Chu Wen-Jen Tsay Jin-Lung Henry Lin
Institute of Economics Institute of Economics Department of Finance
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