Research
Working Paper
Superstitions and Medical Decisions (job market paper)
Investigate how people make medical decisions under the effect of superstition and measure how much their healthcare usage is affected.
Presentation: STATA Texas Empirical Microeconomic Conference (poster, March 2023); 1st Texas Applied Microeconomics Student Workshop (April 2023); 93rd Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (November 2023).Do Political Connections Work on Stock Market Interference? (in Chinese) (English abstract)
Examine whether the government favors politically connected firms in a market interference and measure related abnormal returns on the stocks.
Work in Progress
Impact of Pay Transparency on Gender Wage Inequality: Evidence from Job Postings Regulation in Taiwan
Evaluate the effect of the policy requiring firms to disclose the wage range on job postings and test whether the policy helps to ease gender wage inequality.Why Taiwan Has Low Gender Wage Gaps: A Comparison with South Korea and the United States (Preliminary draft. Last updated in December 2023.)
Compare the components of gender gaps in Taiwan, South Korea, and the US to understand why Taiwan has relatively small gender wage gaps.