Ming-Jen Lin (林明仁

    Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University

    Email: mjlin(at)ntu.edu.tw

    CV     Teaching    Pictures  

    Media Mention

    on the Long Term Effect of 1918 Influenza

    Side Effects of 1918 Flu Seen Decades Later by Adi Narayan, Time Magazine Oct 2009

    on Missing Women:

   Wall Street Journal May 22, 2008 1

   林行止專欄 林行止 2008-05-22

   VOX Columns (a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research)

   Too many Boys, by Esther Duflo

   Missing women in South Asia and China: Biology or discrimination? by Stephan Klasen Journalism and Science by Stephan Klasen

   諾貝爾的爭論 我學者平息  中國時報(China Times) 2009.06.02

 

 

 

 

by 家昀

Paper on Missing Women

More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan (2008),

     With J. T Liu and Nancy Qian. NBER working paper 14541 and CEPR Policy Discussion Paper 6667.

Can Hepatitis B Mothers Account for the Number of Missing Women? Evidence from Three Million Newborns in Taiwan (2008),

      With Ming-Ching Luoh, American Economic Review, 98(5), pp 2259-2273.

 

 

Fun Pictures: Why are women missing?

Best Husband Prize: Third Place, Second Place, Winner, Special Award (Courtesy of Prof. Josh Angrist)

 

Blogs You should visit every day:

The Becker-Posner Blog- "Listen to whatever they have to say" is always a dominate strategy.

Freakonomics: Hidden Economics of Everything

Greg Mankiw's Blog: a econ-boost if taken with your text book

意識型態咖啡

 

Worth Reading: What Economists do    蘋果橘子經濟學推薦序   WSJ introduced Steve Levitt in 2001

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Life is a Journey

"Life is a journey, one that is better  travel with companions by our side....You see, human beings are designed for many things,

 but loneliness is not one of them" - Desperate Housewives

 

What happened to your Elementary Sweetheart 25 years later...

2008-2009, Taiwan and US

 

biking!

 

2007, Taiwan

 

Jeremy goes to First Graduate!                                                                                  Jeremy's Kindergarden Graduation

 

Winter 2006, USA

 

 

2005 and before