Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Choon Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Economics. Choon obtained his PhD in 2010 from the University of California San Diego, where he was a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Before joining the Department of Economics in October 2011, Choon worked at the World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington DC.
Choon is interested in a wide range of topics in the areas of behavioural economics, the economics of education, labour economics, development economics, public economics, and health economics. He often uses field or natural experiments as well as observational data to study the determinants of the education, health, and labour market outcomes of individuals in both developed and developing countries. These countries include Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. Choon has also provided technical and policy assistance to various governments. He has published in international refereed journals, such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Energy Economics, Population and Development Review, Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics of Education Review, Comparative Education Review.
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Monash teaching commitment
ECC4860 Applied Economics Research Paper (2012-2015)
ECC2400 Current Issues in Applied Microeconomics (2016-present)
Research area keywords
- Applied Econometrics
- Applied Economics
- Development
- Education
- Health
- Labour Economics
- Public Economics
Network
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RACE for 2030: Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC)
Beins, D., Liebman, A., Bahrani, B., Leroux, A., Kraal, D., Razzaghi, R., Strengers, Y., Goodwin, S., Pink, S., Rudolph, C., Raven, R., Bergmeir, C., Saunderson, J., Leslie, G., Gangadharan, L., Islam, A., Wang, L. C., Ward, M., Xiao, E., Wallace, M., Tack, G., Stuckey, P., Li, Y., Pan, S., de Nijs, F., Buckingham, E., Denis-Ryan, A., Ens, B., Dargaville, R., Chang, X., Yu, J., White, S., Zlatanov, N., Hyndman, R., Panagiotelis, A. & Athanasopoulos, G.
1/07/20 → 30/06/31
Project: Research
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IB: Islamic Bureaucracies and Pious Publics in Turkey and Indonesia
Millie, J., Senay, B. & Wang, L. C.
21/02/20 → 19/12/23
Project: Research
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Impact of IRI based mobile lessons on educational outcome of primary graders: A randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh
1/03/21 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
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Affirmative Action, Discrimination and Economic Development: Lessons and Evidence
1/01/17 → 31/07/17
Project: Research
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Non-price energy conservation program and household energy consumption in Bangladesh
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Research output
- 22 Article
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Awareness of ethical dilemmas enhances public support for the principle of saving more lives in the United States: a survey experiment based on ethical allocation of scarce ventilators
Rai, B., Wang, L. C., Pandit, S., Handfield, T. & So, C. K., Aug 2021, In: Social Science & Medicine. 282, 10 p., 114171.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Do government-initiated energy comparison sites encourage consumer search and lower prices? Evidence from an online randomized controlled experiment in Australia
Uddin, M., Wang, L. C. & Smyth, R., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 188, p. 167-182 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Gender inequality and caste: field experimental evidence from India
Islam, A., Pakrashi, D., Sahoo, S., Wang, L. C. & Zenou, Y., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 190, p. 111-124 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Impact of testing on sexually transmitted infections among female brothel sex workers in Bangladesh: a randomized controlled trial
Islam, A., Tan, H. A., Bristow, C. C., Hasnain, M. G., Smyth, R. & Wang, L. C., Jun 2021, In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104, 6, p. 1991-1999 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: a field experiment in India
Islam, A., Pakrashi, D., Vlassopoulos, M. & Wang, L. C., Jun 2021, In: Social Science & Medicine. 278, 9 p., 113966.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)