Ming-Jen Lin (林明仁

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University

Email: mjlin(at)ntu.edu.tw

CV     Teaching    Pictures  

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.

 

Media Mention 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, provide by European Union)

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

 

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

 

2007, Taiwan

 

Jeremy goes to First Graduate!                                                                                  Jeremy's Kindergarden Graduation

 

Winter 2006, USA

 

 

2005 and before