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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 at Review of Economic Dynamics) 

  2. 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) (R&R at Review of Development Economics)

  3. Life Cycle Wage Growth in a Developing Economy: Employment Formality and Sector-Specific Human Capital Accumulation (with Swinburn Samuel Leyton) GRIPS Discussion Paper 25-14 (R&R at Journal of Development Economics) 

  4. ​Pension Expansion in Low-Income Developing Countries: The Roles of Government Matching Contributions and Annuitization (with Kwadwo Opoku) (Under Review)

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

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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