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Dr Wang-Sheng LeeResearch FellowMelbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Tel. +61 3 8344 2106 Fax. +61 3 8344 2111 Email. wang.lee@unimelb.edu.au Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Wang joined the Melbourne Institute as a Research Fellow in January 2006. Prior to working at the Melbourne Institute, he was a senior analyst at Abt Associates Inc. (www.abtassociates.com) in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) involved in analyzing the experimental welfare reform evaluations for the states of Delaware and Indiana. In order to further deepen his understanding of program evaluation techniques, Wang devoted his PhD years to investigating various aspects of Propensity Score Matching which resulted in some proposals for new specification tests that can be used in applied work. Wang holds a B.A. in economics from Colby College (www.colby.edu), an M.A. in economics from Michigan (www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/econ) and a PhD in economics from Melbourne. He is also currently affliated with IZA, Bonn (www.iza.org), where he was a visiting researcher during the period April-June 2009. With a strong background in applied micro-econometrics, his current research interests include program evaluation techniques, health and labour economics, happiness economics and obesity.
Buddelmeyer, H., W. Lee and M. Wooden. "Low-Paid Employment and Unemployment Dynamics in Australia," Economic Record, forthcoming. Lee, W. and S. Suardi. "The Australian Firearms Buyback and Its Effect on Gun Deaths," Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming. Johnston, D. and W. Lee. (2009). "Retiring to the Good Life? The Short-Term Effects of Retirement on Health," Economics Letters, 103, pp. 8-11. Kalb, G. and W. Lee. (2008). "Childcare Demand and Household Labour Supply in Australia: an Update," Australian Economic Papers, 47, pp. 272-295. Kalb, G. and W. Lee. (2007). "The Effect of an Alternative Childcare Subsidy on Labour Supply: a Policy Simulation," Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 10, pp. 39-57. Lee, W. and U. Oguzoglu. (2007) "Income Support and Stigma Effects for Young Australians," Australian Economic Review, 40, pp. 369-384. Lee, W., E. Beecroft, and M. Shroder. (2005). "The Impacts of Welfare Reform on Recipients of Housing Assistance," Housing Policy Debate, 16 (3-4), pp. 433-468. Fein, D. and W. Lee. (2003). "The Impacts of Welfare Reform on Child Maltreatment in Delaware," Children and Youth Services Review, 25 (1-2), pp. 83-111.
Current Working Papers/Work in Progress
"Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment" (with M. Caliendo). "Using a Dynamic Matching Panel Estimator to Evaluate the Effects of Labor Market Policies in Germany" (with M. Caliendo). "Accounting for Black-White Differences in Obesity" (with D. Johnston). "Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool." (with S. Suardi). (pdf) "On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models." (pdf) "Propensity Score Matching and Variations on the Balancing Test." (pdf) "Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis," Melbourne Institute Working Paper 28/07 (with U. Oguzoglu). (pdf) "Immigration and Wages: An Open Economy Model," Melbourne Institute Working Paper 7/07. (pdf) "Evaluating the Effects of a Mandatory Government Program using Matched Groups within a Similar Geographic Location." (pdf). "A Note on Assessing Multivariate Balance Conditional on the Propensity Score using Undirected Graphical Models." (pdf)
Recent Conference/Seminar Activities "Accounting for Black-White Differences in Obesity," Australian Health Economics Conference, Hobart, October 1-2, 2009. "Using a Dynamic Matching Panel Estimator to Evaluate the Effects of Labor Market Policies in Germany," Labour Econometrics Workshop, QUT, Brisbane, Aug 7-8, 2009. "Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool." IZA weekly seminar, Bonn (Germany), April 14, 2009. "Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool." 3rd International Symposium on Labor Economics, WISE, Xiamen (China), December 11-12, 2008. "On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models," 3rd Annual IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn (Germany), 19-20 October, 2007, at the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wellington (New Zealand), July 9-11, 2008, and at the Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Singapore, July 16-18, 2008. Discussant of "Do Short-term Training Programmes Activate Means-tested Unemployment Benefit Recipients in Germany?" by Wolff, J. and E. Jozwiak, 3rd Annual IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn (Germany), 19-20 October, 2007. (presentation) "Evaluating the Effects of a Mandatory Government Program using Matched Groups "Propensity Score Matching and Variations on the Balancing Test," 3rd Conference on Policy Evaluation, ZEW, Mannheim (Germany), 27-28 October, 2006. (presentation) (comments) Discussant of "How Do Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes Differ with Respect to the Foregoing Unemployment Duration?" by Hujer, R. and S. Thomsen, 3rd Conference on Policy Evaluation, ZEW, Mannheim (Germany), 27-28 October, 2006. (presentation)
Some Past Contract Work Lee, W., E. Beecroft, J. Khadurri, and R. Patterson. (2003). Impacts of Welfare Reform on Recipients of Housing Assistance: Evidence from Indiana and Delaware, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda MD. (pdf) Beecroft, E., W. Lee, D. Long, P. Holcomb, T. Thompson, N. Pindus, C. O’Brien, and J. Bernstein. (2003). The Indiana Welfare Reform Evaluation: Five-Year Impacts, Implementation, Costs and Benefits. Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda MD. (pdf)
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