Office: 412 RBC Phone: 610-758-3444 Fax: 610-758-4677 Email: syc2@lehigh.edu Applied Microeconomics

Shin-Yi Chou, Ph.D. holds the Frank L. Magee Distinguished Professorship.

Department of Economics: Associate Professor

Education
-  National Taiwan Universtiy, B.A.
-  Duke University, Ph.D.

Shin-Yi Chou is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research areas are health economics and applied econometrics. Portions of her work have been published in Journal of Health Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Her recent research interests include health insurance and child health, parental education and child health, hospital competition and consumer welfare.

Research Interests

• Quality and cost of health care
• Economic analysis of obesity
• Health insurance, education and behavior/health outcomes

Publications and Working Papers

• "Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Long Liu (2006) "Asymmetries in Progression in Higher Education in Taiwan: Parental Education and Income Effects," Economics of Education Review, 25(6),  647-658.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammit (2006), "Households' Precautionary Behaviors - The Effects of the Introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan," Review of Economics of the Household, 4(4), 395-421.
• "Inas Rashad, Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou (2006), "The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults," Eastern Economic Journal, 32(1), 133-148.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer (2006), "Reply to Jonathan Gruber and Michael Frakes," Journal of Health Economics, 25(2), 389-393.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer (2004) "An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System," Journal of Health Economics, 23(3), 565-587.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Cliff J. Huang (2004), "Health Insurance and Precautionary Savings Over the Life Cycle - Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Estimation," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19(3), 295-322.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammitt (2004) "National Health Insurance and Technology Adoption - Evidence from Taiwan," Contemporary Economic Policy, 22(1), 26-38.
• "Gabriel Picone, R. Mark Wilson and Shin-Yi Chou (2003) "Analysis of Hospital Length of Stay and Discharge Destination Using Hazard Functions with Unmeasured Heterogeneity," Health Economic, 12, 1021-1034.
• "Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammitt (2003), "National Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving - Evidence from Taiwan," Journal of Public Economics, 87(9-10), 1837-94.
• "Gabriel A. Picone, Frank A. Sloan, Shin-Yi Chou and Donald H. Taylor, Jr. (2003), "Is Medical Care Productive? Evidence from Medicare," Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(1), 51-62.
• "Gabriel A. Picone, Shin-Yi Chou and Frank A. Sloan (2002), "Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and Medicare?" Rand Journal of Economics, 33(3), 507-523.
• "Shin-Yi Chou (2002), "Asymmetric Information, Ownership and Quality of Care: An Empirical Analysis of Nursing Homes," Journal of Health Economics, 21(2), 293-311.
• "Frank A. Sloan, Gabriel A. Picone, Donald H. Taylor, Jr. and Shin-Yi Chou (2001), "Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's Worth of Difference?" Journal of Health Economics, 20(1), 1-21.

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