Department of Economics and Related Studies
Thang Dang
PhD Student
Profile
Biography
I am a fourth-year PhD Candidate in Economics at The University of York, where I work under the supervision of Prof Thomas Cornelissen and Prof Emma Tominey. My research interests are in applied microeconomics focusing on impact evaluation in labour, education, health and development economics.
I am on the 2020-2021 job market and available for online interviews at the 2020 European Job Market (EJM) and the 2021 ASSA Annual Meetings among other virtual interviews.
For further and updated information about me, please visit my webpage: https://thangdang.org
Research
Overview
Job Market Papers
The Cultural Origins of Educational Success.
The Multigenerational Impacts of Educational Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam (Joint with Thomas Cornelissen).
Research-in-Progress
Welfare Reform and Mental Health: Evidence from Universal Credit (Joint with Mike Brewer, Emma Tominey).
Child Education and Parental Health: Evidence from Finland (Joint with Mika Haapanen, Tuomo Suhonen).
Pre-doctoral Research
Retirement and Health Services Utilization in a Low-income Country. R&R at The Economics of Transition and Institutional Change.
Spillover Effects of Health Insurance for Children on Parents’ Healthcare Services Utilization. R&R at Empirical Economics.
Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility in Vietnam, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 34(1): 113-136, 2020.
Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Political Impacts of Education in Vietnam, Education Economics 27(2): 207-221, 2019.
Do the More Educated Utilize More Health Care Services? Evidence from Vietnam Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, International Journal of Health Economics and Management 18(3): 277-299, 2018.
