Research

Publications

• “The Fiscal Costs of Public Health Crisis: Lessons from Zika in the United States”

(with Yusun Kim)

Public Finance Review, 2025, 53 (4): 506-542 

• “Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program”

(with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo Jales, and Norbert Wilson)

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024, 106 (2): 573-594

• “Effects of Clinical and Socioeconomic Factors on Medicare and Patient Costs for Colorectal Cancer in Australia: A Retrospective Multivariate Regression Analysis”

(with Ou Yang, Yuting Zhang, Yat Hang To, Maarten IJzerman, Peter Gibbs, Karen Trapani, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Fanny Franchini, and PRIMCAT Group)

BMJ Open, 2024, 14 (12): e081483

• “Elderly Responses to Private Health Insurance Incentives: Evidence from Australia”

(with Yuting Zhang)

Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12): 2730-2744

• “Effects of Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Closure on Utilization of Branded and Generic Drugs” 

(with Yuting Zhang and Cameron M. Kaplan)

Health Economics, 2023, 32 (3): 639-653

• “The Effects of Trade Liberalization and Domestic Reforms on Income Inequality in a Middle-Income Economy: Evidence from Taiwan”

(with Mei-Ying Lai and Zong-Shin Liu)

Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (3): 1286-1309

• “Differential Effects by Mental Health Status of Filling the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap”

(with Yuting Zhang and Cameron M. Kaplan)

Medical Care, 2022, 60 (2): 133-139

• “The Long-Term Impact of Work-Hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply”

Research in Labor Economics, 2020, vol. 48, 27-60

• “Economic Globalization and Household Income Inequality: An Empirical Study of Taiwan”

(with Mei-Ying Lai and Zong-Shin Liu)

Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, 2019, 49 (2): 1-46

• “The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups Over the Great Recession in the United States”

(with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo Jales, and Norbert Wilson)

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108 (3): 379-383 

Working Papers

• “Differences in Exposure to Food Insecurity between Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Households and the Role of SNAP” (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Norbert Wilson)

Works in Progress

• “Family Planning, Maternal Health, and Infant Health in a Disease Outbreak” (with Yusun Kim)

• “Family Ties and Safety Net Participation” (with Yang Jiao)