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Former Student Research Intern
Tsz Yeung (Alvis) Tang
Former Student Research Intern
Tang Tsz Yeung Alvis is a current final year student majoring in Economics and Finance.
Upon entering HKUST, he has joined several Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program supervised by ECON faculty on the financial behaviour of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong.
He was named a finalist for the 2021 Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award and received the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Undergraduate and Diploma Students in 2020/21.
Publications
The Effects of Fuel Standards on Air Pollution: Evidence from China
By Jin Wang, Pei Li, Yi Lu
Publications
Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China’s Economic Zone Program
By Jin Wang, Yi Lu, Lianming Zhu
Working Paper Series
Environmental Gentrification
Policies that are designed to reduce environmental damages have the goal of protecting the environment while promoting efficiency and pursuing equity in their distribution of benefits and costs. This paper measures the differential welfare impacts of environmental policies across household groups. To account for property market responses and re-optimization of residential housing decisions, a dynamic model of housing decisions with endogenous tenure status (renting vs. owning) and forward-looking residents is used.
By Wen Wang
Research Affiliate
Jin Wang
Associate Professor, Division of Social Science
Jin Wang is an associate professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was educated at the Tsinghua University of China for her BA and MA in Economics before getting her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research, which mostly has a policy focus, is mainly in the areas of Development Economics, Public Economics and Chinese Economy.
Publications
Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of Information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea
By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin A. Lee, Wilfredo Lim
Publications
Statistical Evidence on the Impact of Agricultural Straw Burning on Urban Air Quality in China
By Alexis Kai Hon Lau, Guojun He, Tong Liu
Working Paper Series
Evaluating the Distributive Effects of a Development Intervention
Most analyses of randomized controlled trials of development interventions estimate an average treatment effect. However, the aggregate impact on welfare also depends on distributional effects. We propose a simple approach to evaluate efficiency-equity trade-offs, that follow the utilitarian tradition of Atkinson (1970). The method does not impose additional assumptions or data requirements beyond those needed to estimate the average treatment effect. We illustrate the approach using data from a credit delivery experiment we implemented in West Bengal, India.
By Sujata Visaria (On Leave), Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee
Working Paper Series
Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries
We conduct a field experiment in India comparing two approaches to appointing a local commission agent to select eligible smallholder farmers for a subsidized credit program: a private trader in TRAIL, versus a political appointee in GRAIL. Although both schemes had similar loan take-up and repayments and similar treatment impacts on borrowing and farm output, only TRAIL raised farm profits significantly. This cannot be explained by greater connectedness between TRAIL agents and farmers, or differential patterns of borrower selection.
By Sujata Visaria (On Leave), Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee
Working Paper Series
Economic Policies vs. Identity Politics: The Rise of a Right-wing Nationalist Party in India
As in many other parts of the world, India has witnessed a surge in the popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a right wing nationalist party. This paper examines the respective roles of economic policy and “identity politics” for the sharp rise in support for BJP in a region where it had a negligible vote share until 2014. Using household level panel data from 3500 rural households in West Bengal, we examine the effect of different welfare benefits delivered by state and national governments, on support for the regional incumbent (Trinamool Congress (TMC)) and the BJP after 2014.
By Sujata Visaria (On Leave), Pushkar Maitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Sandip Mitra