Pui Hang Wong

Pui-Hang Wong

Maastricht Graduate School of Governance

School of Business and Economics

Maastricht University

I am an assistant professor at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT. I am also a fellow member of the African Studies Centre Leiden at Leiden University. I have been a visiting researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Center for Economic Catch-Up at Seoul.

Wong, Pui-Hang, Ortrun Merkle & Melissa Siegel, 2024. Remittance receivers as targets for corruption in Latin America, Journal of Development Studies, 60(2): 324-343.
Torres Chedraui, Ana Maria & Pui-Hang Wong, 2024. A stranger at home? A multilevel analysis of anti-Muslim sentiment in Western European societies. Ethnicities, 24(1): 57-77.
Collazos-Ortiz, M. A., & Pui-Hang Wong. 2024. The effects of resource rents and elections on human capital investment in Colombia. Resources Policy, 89, 104578.
Wong, Pui-Hang, 2022, Moral injury in Former child soldiers in Liberia. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 15(3): 847-856.
Wong, Pui-Hang & Mehmet Guney Celbis, 2019. Human rights, income and international migration, International Migration, 57(3): 98-114.
Celbis, Mehmet Guney, Pui-Hang Wong & Tatjana Guznajeva, 2018. Regional integration and the economic geography of Belarus, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59: 462-495.
Wong, Pui-Hang, 2016. How can political trust be built after civil wars? Evidence from post-conflict Sierra Leone, Journal of Peace Research, 53(6): 772-785.

Celbis, Mehmet Guney, Pui-Hang Wong, Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2023, Job satisfaction and the ‘Great Resignation’: An exploratory machine learning analysis. Social Indicators Research, 170(3): 1097-1118.
Celbis, Mehmet Guney, Pui-Hang Wong, Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2023, Impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on older-age cohorts in European labor markets: A machine learning exploration of vulnerable groups. Regional Science, Policy & Practice, 15(3): 559-584.
Wong, Pui-Hang., Kourtit, K., & Nijkamp, P. 2021. The ideal neighbourhoods of successful ageing: A machine learning approach. Health & Place, 72, 102704.

Celbis, Mehmet Guney, Pui-Hang Wong, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp. (Accepted). Detecting and measuring spatial spillover effects and heterogeneity using interpretable tree-based machine learning approaches: an illustration using the Boston housing dataset. In: Broitman, D., Kopczewska, K., & Czamanski, D. (eds.), Handbook of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Cities. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Wong, Pui-hang, Mehmet Guney Celbis, Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2023, Same Bed, Different Dreams? Socio-Economic Strata and Differences in Liveability Perception in European Cities. In: Fusco Girard, L., Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P (eds.), The Future of Liveable Cities, Springer, Cham..
Turkeli, Serdar, Pui-hang Wong & Eleni Abraham Yitbarek, 2020, Multiplex Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach to Design Policy Learning Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa for the SDGs. In: Ramutsindela M., Mickler D. (eds), Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals, Springer, Cham,
Merkle, Ortrun & Pui-hang Wong, 2019, It is all about power: Corruption, patriarchy and the political participation of women. In: Konte, Maty & Nyasha Tirivayi (eds.), Women and Sustainable Human Development: Empowering Women in Africa, Palgrave Macmillan, Geneva.

Wong, Pui-Hang. (Accepted). Regional Value Chains. In: Z., Elburz, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, K. Haynes (eds.), The World of Regional Science: The Encyclopedia of Regional Science. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Wong, Pui-hang, 2021, Economic Deprivation: Approaches, Causes, and Consequences for Violent Conflicts. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Özuyar P.G., Wall T. (eds), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Springer, Cham..

Wong, Pui-Hang, Kourtit, K., & Nijkamp, P. 2024. Pandemetrics: modelling pandemic impacts in space. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.

(submitted) Wong, Pui-Hang, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp. Mobility and well-being
(submitted) Wong, Pui-Hang, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp. Urban-Rural migration in Europe
Moore, Lindsey, Mindel van de Laar, Pui-Hang Wong, Cathal O'Donoghue. Making impact with agricultural development projects
Ramani, Shyama, Pui-Hang Wong, Vivek Claver. Open defecation in India
Pui-Hang Wong and Russell Wong. Strategic Complementarity and the Rise of Polarization: Theory and Evidence
Supply chain network (with Antonio Lau and Young Sik Cho)
Digital burnout (with Trang Thi Pham)
Housing and wellbeing
Human rights (with Ana Maria Torres Chedraui and Gustavo Arosemena)

2023/2024

Peace and Justice (BA Global Studies)
From Climate Conflict to Climate Justice (Minor Sustainability)
Peacebuilding and Development (MSc in Public Policy)
Methods for Policy Analysis (MSc in Public Policy)
Advanced Methods for Policy-Relevant Research and Analysis (MSc in Public Policy)