Yang, O. and Zhang, Y., 2025. Wait Times for Psychiatric Specialist Services in Australia. JAMA Network Open, 8 (2), pp.e2461947-e2461947. DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.61947.
Yang, O., Zhang, Y., To, Y. H., IJzerman, M. M., Liu, J., Gibbs, P., Trapani, K., Pearson, S. A., Franchini, F., 2024. Effects of clinical and socioeconomic factors on Medicare and patient costs for colorectal cancer in Australia: a retrospective multivariate regression analysis. BMJ Open, 14 (12), e081483. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081483.
Yang, O., Yong, J. and Zhang, Y., 2024. Effects of Private Health Insurance on Waiting Time in Public Hospitals. Health Economics, 33 (6), 1192-210. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4811.
Yong, J. and Yang, O. , 2024. Caring for Older Patients: Quality and Efficiency of Australia's Healthcare System. Australian Economic Review, 57 (2), 160-167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12558
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
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Ownership status, Prices and Quality of Nursing Homes: Evidence from Australia”, with Jongsay Yong.
“Impact of the GP-Specialist Referral Network on Psychiatric Specialist Consultation Waiting Times and Fees”, with Yuting Zhang.
“Who Gets MyMedicare and When? Patient Characteristics and the Likelihood of Registration”, with Ron Fisher, Susan Mendes, Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang, Crystal McPhee, Hannah Lack, Karinna Saxby.
Compare quality of care in private and public hospitals in Australia, commissioned by Australian National University, 2026
Evaluation of Right Care Better Health, commissioned by Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, with Ron Fisher, Karinna Saxby, Susan Mendez, Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang, 2025
Developing an innovative climate-SES-vulnerability index, commissioned by AONEX Pty Ltd, 2025
IPART out-of-home care review: Cost of caring, commissioned by Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales, with Ron Fisher, Karinna Saxby, Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang, 2024
Right Care Better Health Evaluation Strategy, commissioned by Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, with Ron Fisher, Karinna Saxby, Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang, 2024
Submission in response to the Independent Hospital and Aged Care Pricing Authority Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2024-25, with Jongsay Yong, Susan Mendez and Yuting Zhang, 2023
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
“An Exponential Dynamic Multinomial Response Panel Data Model with Fixed Effects”, with Majid M. Al-Sadoon, Tong Li, M. Hashem Pesaran and Xueyan Zhao
“Impact of Telehealth Adoption by Psychiatric Specialists on Consultation Wait Times and Fees”, with Yuting Zhang
“Referral patterns and GP gatekeeping”, with Ryan Liang, Susan Mendez and Yuting Zhang
“A comparative descriptive analysis of diagnosis and survival outcomes for colorectal cancer in Victoria and Ontario”, with Erin Strumpf, Tiffanie Perrault, Fanny Franchini and Yuting Zhang
“Who gets chronic conditions earlier? Evidence from HILDA”, with Ron Fisher and Yuting Zhang
“Estimating short-term capacity: Theory and an application to invasive coronary angiography for acute myocardial infarction”, with Marc Chan and Jongsay Yong
“Bodily pain, social pain? The impact of physical pain on loneliness”, with Ferdi Botha
“Excess capacity and low-value care: The case of invasive coronary angiography in Australia's mixed public-private health system”, with Jongsay Yong and Vijaya Sundararajan
“Estimation for Partially Linear Single-Index Panel Data Models with Individual-specific Link Functions”, with Yiran Han and Boping Tian