This paper investigates the effects of employment protection legislation on the rates of hiring, separation, worker flows, job reallocation, and churning flows for the case of Taiwan. Our empirical identification takes advantage of a reform created by Taiwan's enactment of Labor Standards Law,...

This paper considers models with latent/discrete endogenous regressors and presents a simulation-based two-step (STS) estimator. The endogeneity is corrected by adopting a simulation-based control function approach. The first step consists of simulating of the residuals of the reduced-form...

For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT's long-term harmful effects on humans. Using data from the large-scale indoor residual spraying of DDT that took place in Taiwan in the...

For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT’s long-term harmful effects on humans. Using data from the large-scale indoor residual spraying of DDT that took place in Taiwan in the...

This study utilizes Taiwanese population-wide administrative data to investigate parental labor supply responses when their children have disabilities. The results demonstrate that child disability reduces mothers' employment rate and annual earnings by 9% and 16%, which persists for a minimum...

People turn out to cast their votes simply because they want to "cheer" or "boo" their favored or unfavored candidates. This expressive voting behavior is in marked contrast to the instrumental voting behavior, i.e., people vote because they perceive voting as a means of achieving a particular...

This paper investigates the effects of employment protection legislation on the rates of hiring, separation, worker flows, job reallocation, and churning flows for the case of Taiwan. Our empirical identification takes advantage of a reform created by Taiwan’s enactment of Labor Standards Law,...

This paper takes a preliminary step towards understanding the dynamics of property prices and their interaction with output growth. Our general equilibrium model is able to generate closed form solutions and testable hypotheses that are broadly supported empirically. In particular, our data...