Man Hin (Iris) Chio

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the Research School of Economics, The Australian National University, supervised by Chung Tran (chair), Timothy Kam and Elena Capatina. My research is in macroeconomics and public economics, with a focus on disability insurance, means-tested transfers and labour supply over the life cycle. I combine quasi-experimental evidence from Australia’s linked administrative data with heterogeneous-agent lifecycle models to study how the design of disability benefits shapes employment, earnings and welfare. My job market paper evaluates Australia’s 2005 Welfare-to-Work reforms and shows that tightening the work-capacity test of the Disability Support Pension lowered recipients’ employment and earnings.

Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics

Email: man.chio@anu.edu.au

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