Papers
Aging and Elderly Care
Migration
Social Insurance
Youth Employment
- Ageing, Work and Retirement in China, East and Southeast Asia (2021) with Philip O'Keefe and John Giles, China: An International Journal (CIJ).
- Opportunity Costs of Informal Aged Care Provision in China : Technical Note (2019) with Yixing Zhang and Xiaowei Zhuang, Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
- Willingness-to-pay for Home and Community-based Aged Care Services in China :Findings From Anhui Province (2019) with Yixing Zhang, Elena E. Glinskaya, Dewen Wang, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Linlin Hu, Washington, DC: World Bank Group
- Options for Financing Elderly Care in China : Summary Paper (2019) with Elena Glinskaya, Zhanlian Feng, and Dewen Wang, Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Migration
- Children Left Behind in China: the Role of School Fees (2020) with Hai-Anh Dang and Harris Selod, IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Volume 11: Issue 1. (Online Appendix)
- Migration and Human Capital Accumulation (2020) with John Giles, IZA World of Labor.
- Migration, Remittances and the Labor Supply of the Left-Behind Elderly: Evidence from Rural Vietnam (2016) with John Giles
Social Insurance
- Social Pension and Spousal Labor Supply in Thailand (2016)
Youth Employment
- Education and Family Background in the Transition to Wage Employment in Nigeria (2015) with John Giles
Ph.D. Dissertation
Essays on the left-behinds in emerging countries
- Abstract: This dissertation consists of three independent papers on the left-behind children in China and the left-behind elderly in Thailand and Vietnam. The first paper addresses how school fees in urban areas affect child migration in China. Our findings suggest that higher fees deter migrant workers from bringing their children to urban areas, and more vulnerable migrant workers are most affected by an increase in school fees. The second paper investigates the impacts of adult children’s internal migration and remittances on the labor supply responses of the rural left-behind parents in Vietnam. The results show that mothers tend to work more if they have migrant children, and they tend to work less when they receive remittances from their migrant children. Conversely, fathers tend to be less affected by child migration and their remittances. The third paper examines the impacts of the universal social pension introduced in Thailand in 2009 on the well-being and the labor supply responses of the recipients and their spouses. The empirical results show that the social pension scheme does not generate significant impacts on household poverty status or expenditures, but receiving social pensions has a significant negative impact on beneficiaries' own labor market participation. Further, both men and women are found to respond to their spouses' pensions by leaving their jobs and staying inactive.