Hui Ren Tan
Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
Education: PhD in Economics, Boston University, May 2019
Research Interests: Economic History, Labor Economics
Contact: huiren [at] nus.edu.sg
Hui Ren Tan
Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
Education: PhD in Economics, Boston University, May 2019
Research Interests: Economic History, Labor Economics
Contact: huiren [at] nus.edu.sg
Working Papers
McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood
with Tianyi Wang [NBER Working Paper No. 32682]
Locked in the Past: Old Housing and the Adoption of Electric Heating
with Yi Jie Gwee
Revise and Resubmit, Explorations in Economic History [Paper]
Publications
The Long Campaign: Britain’s Fight to End the Slave Trade
(with Yi Jie Gwee)
Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 97(101694) [Ungated]
How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
(with Philipp Ager, James J. Feigenbaum, and Casper Worm Hansen)
Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91(1): 1-44 [Ungated]
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century US
Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41(1): 77-102 [Ungated]
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants
Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82(4): 959-1002 [Ungated]
How Widespread are Social Network Effects? Evidence from the Early Twentieth-Century US
Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40(1): 187-237 [Ungated]
The Return to Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Evidence from Twins
(with James J. Feigenbaum)
Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80(4): 1101-1142 [Ungated]
Did Military Service During WWI Affect the Economic Status of American Veterans?
Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 75(101301) [Ungated]
More is Less? The Impact of Family Size on Education Outcomes in the United States, 1850-1940
Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54(4): 1154-1181 [Ungated]
Co-winner of the 2016 IPUMS USA Research Award, Minnesota Population Center (Link)