Research

Publications: 

1. 1. Yang, O., Yong, J. and Zhang, Y., 2024. Effects of Private Health Insurance on Waiting Time in Public Hospitals. Health Economics, forthcoming. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4811.  

Working paper draft

1. 2. Yong, J. and Yang, O. , 2024. Caring for Older Patients: Quality and Efficiency of Australia's Healthcare System. Australian Economic Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12558

   3. Vijaya Sundararajan, Yang, O. and Yong, J., 2023. Socioeconomic status and access to care in a universal health care system: The case of acute myocardial infarction in Australia. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 215, 1-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.08.022

[working paper version: draft]

1. 4. Yang, O., Sivey, P., de Silva, A. and Scott, A., 2020. Parents' Demand for Sugar Sweetened Beverages for Their Pre‐School Children: Evidence from a Stated‐Preference Experiment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102 (2), 480-504. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajae.12033. 

[working paper version: draft and appendix]

1. 5. Yang, O., Chan, Marc K., Cheng, Terence C. and Yong, J., 2020. Cream skimming: Theory and evidence from hospital transfers and capacity utilization, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 173, 68-87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.03.024. 

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1. 6. Feng, G., McLaren, K., Yang, O., Zhang, X. and Zhao, X., 2021. The impact of environmental policy stringency on industrial productivity growth: A semi-parametric study of OECD countries. Energy Economics, 100, 150320. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105320.

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1. 7. Yang, O., Yong, J. and Scott, A., 2021. Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Review and Some Lessons for Australia. Gerontologist, gnab050, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab050. 

   8. Yong, J., Yang, O., Zhang, Y. and Scott, A., 2021. Ownership, Quality and Prices of Nursing Homes in Australia: Why Greater Private Sector Participation Did Not Improve Performance, Health Policy, 125 (11), 1475-1481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.09.005. 

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1. 9. Yong, J. and Yang, O.,  2021. Does socioeconomic status affect hospital utilization and health outcomes of chronic disease patients? European Journal of Health Economics, 22, 329–339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01255-z.

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1. 10. Srivastava, P., Yang, O. and Zhao, X., 2022. Equal Tax for Equal Alcohol?  Beverage Types and Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, Economic Record, 98: 354-372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12704.

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1. 11. Franchini, F., Trapani, K., Soon, J., Daniels, B., Gillett, P., Degeling, K., Alexander, M., To, Y., O'Haire, S., Yang, O. and Fox, S, et al. 2023, 'PRIMCAT: A novel approach to informing health technology assessment decision making in Australia,' ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, vol.34 pp. S924-S924. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2023.09.2641.

   12. Franchini, F., Trapani, K., Gillett, P., Degeling, K., Daniels, B., Pearson, S., Yang, O., Zhang, Y., Gibbs, P., Ben, S. and McArthur, G, et al. 2022, 'The PRIMCAT cohort study: Analysis of treatment utilisation, costs, and outcomes in Victoria for patients with cancer,' ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, vol.18 pp. 180-181.

   13. Zhang C., Liu, Z., Zeng, Y., Yang, O. and Iram, R., 2022.Energy policy and financial performance in China: mediation effect of financial inclusion. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 21244-21258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17111-3. 

   14. Jiang, B., Kim, J. S., Li, C. and Yang, O., 2018. Social Network Structure and Risk Sharing in Villages. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 18(3), 20170263, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2017-0263. 

   15. Yang, O., Zhao, X. and Srivastava, P., 2016. Binge Drinking and Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours in Australia. Economic Record, 92(297), 222-240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12243. 

   16. McLaren, K., Yang, O., 2016. A Class of Demand Systems Satisfying Global Regularity and Having Complete Rank Flexibility. Empirical Economics, 51(1), 315-337. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-015-0996-x. 

Papers Under Review: 

• “Ownership status, Prices and Quality of Nursing Homes: Evidence from Australia”, with Jongsay Yong. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4348161 

Consultancy projects:  

• Enhancing the multivariant demand drivers model, commissioned by The Victorian Department of Health, (with Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang), 2022

• Review of the DHHS Integrated Demand Forecasting Model, commissioned by The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, (with Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang and Viet Nguyen), 2021

• Competition, productivity, pricing strategies, and quality of care in the Australian’s residential aged care industry, commissioned by Aged Care Royal Commission, (with Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang), 2020

• Analysis of relationship between health and socioeconomic status to inform development of loading and risk-adjustment approaches for current and future funding models, commissioned by The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, (with Jongsay Yong), 2017-2018

Working Papers: 

• “An Exponential Dynamic Multinomial Response Panel Data Model with Fixed Effects”, with Majid M. Al-Sadoon, Tong Li, M. Hashem Pesaran and Xueyan Zhao

•  “Estimating short-term capacity: Theory and an application to invasive coronary angiography for acute myocardial infarction”, with Marc Chan and Jongsay Yong

• “Competition, prices and quality of residential aged care in Australia”, with Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang and Anthony Scott, Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series: No. 02/21.