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Research

Refereed Journal Publication:

* The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Taiwanese Labor Market (with Pei-Ju Liao, Yichan Tsai and Fuhsang Zang), Taiwan Economic Review, forthcoming

*Fertility Decisions and the Norm of Intergenerational Support to Aging Parents (with Trang Le), International Studies of Economics, Wiley, forthcoming

* The Impacts of Policy Infrastructures on the International Use of the Chinese Renminbi: A Cross-Country Analysis (with H. Chey). Asian Survey, University of California Press, 2020 60 (2) 221–244.

*  Economic fluctuations, volatility changes and the role of government spending in China: A structural analysis (with Junsang Lee and Min Zhao), Pacific Economic Review, Wiley, 2020, 25:512–538

*  Population Aging, Health Care and Fiscal Policy Reform: The Challenges for Japan (with Tomoaki Yamada), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley, 2019, 121-2, 547-577

* Demographic Change and Long-term Growth in China: Past Developments and the Future Challenge of Aging (with Pei-Ju Liao and Min Zhao), Review of Development Economics, Wiley, 2018, 22, 928–952

* Tax incentives and foreign direct investment in China (with Junsang Lee, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Yanqing Zhao) Applied Economics Letters, Routledge, 2018, 26:9, 777-780

* The Development of Universal Health Insurance Coverage in Thailand: Challenges of Population Aging and Informal Economy (with Xianguo Huang and Somrasri Yupho), Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, 2015, 145, 227-236 (2014 impact factor: 2.89; 5 year: 3.54)

* Financing National Health Insurance: Challenge of Fast Population Aging (with Pei-Ju Liao), Taiwan Economic Review (Issue of Macroeconomic-Theory and Empirics), 2015 43:2, 145-182

* Health Insurance Reform – The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in (with Gary Hansen and Junsang Lee), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, 2014, 45, 315-329 

* Optimal Linear and Two-bracket Income Taxes with Idiosyncratic Earning Risk (with CC Yang), Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, 2013, 105:6, 58-71

* Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving – A Structural Analysis, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, 2013, 16:3, 511-526

* The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Asset Holdings and Welfare (with Junsang Lee), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 17:6, 1252-1280

* Is Consumption more Volatile than Output in China? (with Min Zhao), China Economic Review, Elsevier, 2012, 23:4, 918-927

 

Other Publication:

  1. Demographic Turbulence and Its Costs: The Challenges for Japan (book chapter), In Focus, Antall József Knowledge Centre, 2019, 3, 9-11

  2. Population Aging, Health Care and Fiscal Policy Reform: The Challenges for Japan, Vanguardia Dossier, 69, Sept. 2018 (in Spanish)

  3. “Declining Birthrate and Aging Population in Asia ― Educational Support to Low-Income Households Improves Quality of Labor Force and Productivity,” Discuss Japan, No.44 (Economy), Mar 08, 2018 http://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/archives/economy/pt20180308105336.html

  4. "Population Aging, Health Care, and Fiscal Policy Reform: The challenges for Japan" Formiche, an Italian magazine about politics, economics and culture. March 2018. pp. 42-45.

  5. “Aging, Low Fertility and Development – What is the right population policy for developing countries in Asia?”  Economics Classroom in Nikkei News (経済教室:日本経済新聞), May 30, 2017, pp.27 (in Japanese)

  6. How developing countries can deal with rising health care costs, Nikkei Asian Review, Nov. 23, 2016, pp.1-2

 

Working Paper:

  1. Long-Term Care Risk for Couples and Singles (with Gary Hansen and Elena Capatina), NBER Working Paper 32196 (R&R) 

  2. Pension Expansion in Low-Income Developing Countries: Government-Sponsored Matching-Contribution Schemes and Annuitization (with Kwadwo Opoku)

  3. Consumption Inequality and Risk Sharing over the Life Cycle in Developing Economies: Informal Employment and the COVID-19 Crisis (with Mutita Ariyavutikul, Trang Le and Trisukon Sawatrukkiat)

  4. Financing Aging in Developing Economies: Feasible Taxation and Optimal Population Policy (with Tanyasorn Ekapirak and Pei-Ju Liao)

  5. Fiscal Reform, Government Debt and Female Labor Supply in Japan (with Naiyue Cui and Yunfang Hu)

  6. The Gender Wage Gap over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Japan (with Jau-er Chen and Tomoe Naito)

  7. Life Cycle Wage Growth in a Developing Economy: Does Formality Matter? (with Swinburn Samuel Leyton)

 

Work in Progress:

  • Polarization and the dynamics of optimum tax progressivity (with CC Yang and Yichan Tsai)

  • Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis    (with Per-Ju Liao and CC Lin)

  • Life-cycle Earnings and Returns to Education for Formal and Informal Workers (with Trang Le)

  • Consumption Inequality over the Life Cycle in a Developing Economy with Large Informal Employment (with Trisukon Sawatrukkiat)

  • The Impact of Monetary Policy on Households Income Inequality in a Developing Economy: Evidence from Thailand (with Mutita Ariyavutikul)

  • Marriage, Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation in an Aging Economy (with Junichi Fujimoto)

  • Female Labor Supply and Family Tax Deduction in Japan (with Pei-Ju Liao, Yichan Tsai and Shi-yang Lin)

  • Life Cycle Earnings Profiles and Gender Gap in Taiwan (with Pei-Ju Liao)

  • Fertility and Gender (In)equality in Education (with Tilahun Etsubdink Sileshi)

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