Thoa Hoang

Welcome to my personal website!

Work and Education:

• 10/2022-present: Senior Economist, REE team, Ministry of Transport, New Zealand

• 8/2021-10/2022: Project analyst, Inland revenue, New Zealand 

• 12/2020-8/2021: Data scientist, Health quality and safety commission, New Zealand.

• 1/2020-12/2020: Assistant research fellow, Department of public health, University of Otago, New Zealand.

• 8/2018-1/2022: Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) in Economic, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• 9/2013-5/2016: Master of Management Degree, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italia (GPA: 101/110)

• 9/2006-9/2010: Bachelor's degree in business administration, Foreign Trade University, Vietnam (GPA: 8.54/10. Rank: First) 

• 9/2003-9/2006: High School Diploma (Degree: Distinction) High School for Gifted Students in Physics, Vietnam National University, Vietnam

Awards and Prizes (Selected)

• Research Excellence Award, Victoria University of Wellington, 2021 (Research Excellence Award: Thoa Hoang | Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change | Victoria University of Wellington (wgtn.ac.nz))

• Wellington International Student Excellence Awards (academic award) 2021 (Wellington International Student Excellence Awards | Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change | Victoria University of Wellington (wgtn.ac.nz)

• Full scholarship granted by the Chair in the Economics of Climate Change and Disasters for a Phd programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2018-2021)

• Full scholarship granted by the Italian Ministry of Education (MAE) for master studies in Italy (2014,2015)

• Vietnamese Government's Annual Scholarship for excellent students (2006 – 2010)

• PostCo fellowship for excellent students, 2007

• Honored in the valedictorian honors ceremony as the student ranked first among graduates of the Faculty of Business Administration, Foreign Trade University (October 2010)

Publications 

Journal Articles:

*Corresponding author

• Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, and Thinh Le Van. "Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)." Health Economics (2025). 

• Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, The income consequences of a managed retreat, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023)

• Paul McBride, Thoa Hoang, Richard Hamblin, Ying Li, Carl Shuker, Janice Wilson, Dale Bramley Using REACH, a new modeling and forecasting tool, to understand the delay and backlog effects of COVID-19 on New Zealand’s health system. The New Zealand Medical Journal (2021)

•  Thoa Hoang*, Ilan Noy, Olga Philippova, and Ken Elwood Prioritizing Earthquake Retrofitting in Wellington, New Zealand. Disasters (July 2020)

• Thoa Hoang*, Ilan Noy, Wellbeing After a Managed Retreat: Observations from a Large New Zealand Program International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (April 2020)

Working Papers:

• Thoa Hoang, Factors affecting light electric vehicles uptake: observation from New Zealand (NZAE conference, 2024)

• Thoa Hoang, Mental health consequences after a natural disaster: Administrative Data from New Zealand (2025) 

Projects:

I provided economics or data analysis for projects: (selected)

• Economics of earthquake vulnerable buildings (2019-2020) Flagship Programme 3 – Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE 

• Health After Release from Prison (2020), led by Melbourne University Health outcomes after release from prison for Māori (MAA2020-17) - Research using Stats NZ microdata - Stats NZ Store House (oclc.org) 

• Developed forecasting models to evaluate the impact of Covid 19 on health outcomes (2020), Health quality & safety commission, New Zealand.

I am in the steering group for projects: (selected)

• The demographics of VKT (TAR 22/16), 2024, Wakakotahi, New Zealand.

• Domestic transport charges: Estimation of transport-related elasticities, 2023-2024, Motu & Ministry of Transport.