Elliott Fan (樊家忠)

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
21 Hsu-Chow Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
T: +886-2-23519641 ext: 493 | F: +886-2-23511826 | E: elliottfan@ntu.edu.tw

Updated CV

Teaching:

Microeconomics (ECON 2001)

Labor Economics (ECON 3039)

Education:

PH.D in Economics, 2006, University of Toronto

Professional experience:

Assistant Professor, 2011 to present
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Fellow, 2010 to 2011
Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research (SPEAR) Centre, Research School of Economics, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University

Research Fellow, 2006 to 2010
Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research (SPEAR) Centre, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Research interest:

  • Evaluating impacts of public social security programs

  • Household joint decisions

  • Dynamics of retirement decisions

  • Income transfers and living standard of immigrants

  • Mandatory military services and demographic changes

Completed papers:

“Women Rule: Preferences and Fertility in Australian Households” (with Pushkar Maitra), accepted by The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.

“Do public Incomes Induce More Consumption?” Economic Record, Volume 86 Issue 272, March 2010, Pages 15-27.

“Who Benefits from Public Old Age Pensions? Evidence from a Targeted Program,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 58, Number 2, January 2010, Pages 297-321.
 
“Health Status, Wealth, and Portfolio Choice: Causality or Heterogeneity?” (with Ruoyun Zhao), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 33, Issue 6, June 2009, Pages 1079-1088.

“Rates of Return to University Education: the Regression Discontinuity Design” (with Xin Meng, Zhichao Wei, and Guochang Zhao), IZA Discussion Papers No. 4749.

“Reconciling Income Mobility and Welfare Persistence” (with Chris Ryan), (2011) Centre for Economics Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Paper Series, DP 651.

“Income Transfers and Elderly Immigrants in Canada?” (with Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin), working paper.

Works in progress:

“Household Bargaining and Portfolio Choice” (with Ruoyun Zhao)

“The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Wealth Accumulation for Cohorts Approaching Retirement” (with Pushkar Maitra)

“Love, Marriage and Baby Carriage: Household Joint Decision of Fertility and Marriage Dissolution”

“Estimating the Displacing Effect of Public Income on Private Transfers: An Application of Regression Discontinuity Design”

“The Effectiveness of Fertility-enhancing Public Policies: A Meta-Analysis”

Funded projects:

  • “Macroeconomic shock and wealth accumulation for retirement – an analysis in the framework of household bargaining” National Science Council Research Fund (NSC-101-2401-H-002-015-MY2, 2012), Taiwan, NT$1,807,000.
  • “Estimating the Displacing Effect of Public Income on Private Transfers: An Application of Regression Discontinuity Design” National Science Council Research Fund (NSC-100-2401-H-002-204, 2011), Taiwan, NT$799,000.