Research

• Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsien-Ming Lien, Jin-Tan Liu, (2024). The Long-Term Health Effects of Early-Life Malaria Exposure: Evidence from Taiwan’s Malaria Eradication in the 1950. American Journal of Health Economics, 10(1), 30-67.(SSCI)

 

• Cheng Chen; Sabrina Terrizzi, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsien-Ming Lien, (2021). The effect of sibship size on educational attainment of the first born: evidence from three decennial censuses of Taiwan. Empirical Economics, 61(4), 2173-2204.(SSCI)

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• Cheng Chen, Wangyang Zhao, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsien-Ming Lien(2021) “The effect of family size on parents’ labor supply and occupational prestige: Evidence from Taiwan and Mainland China,” China Economic Review, Vol.66, online,(SSCI)​

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• Shin-Yi Chou, James A. Dearden, Mary E. Deily, Hsien-Ming Lien (2020) “Provider responses to a global budgeting system: The case of drug expenditures in Taiwan hospitals,” Health Economics , 29:1270–1278(SSCI)

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• Hsing-Wen Han, Hsien-Ming Lien, Tzu-Ting Yang (2019) “Patient Cost Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design,” American Economic Journal : Economic Policy , 12:3, pp.238-278 (SSCI)

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• Elliott Fan, Hsien-Ming Lien, Ching-to Albert Ma (2019) “Uterus at a Price: Disability Insurance and Hysterectomy,” Journal of Health Economics , Volume 66, July 2019, Pages 1-17 (SSCI)

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• Hsien-Ming Lien, Ping Wang (2016) “The timing of childbearing: The role of human capital and personal preferences,” Journal of Macroeconomics 49, pp.247-264 (SSCI)

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• Hsien-Ling Hsieh, Shin-Yi Chou, Echu Liu, and Hsien-Ming Lien (2015) “Strengthening or Weakening? The Impact of Universal Health Insurance on Intergenerational Co-residence,” Demography 52:3, pp.883-904 (SSCI)

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• Jing Hua Zhang, Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily, and Hsien-Ming Lien (2014) “Hospital Ownership and Drug Utilization under a Global Budget: A Quantile Regression Analysis,” International Health 6, pp.62-69 (SSCI)​​

 

• Muzhe Yang, Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou (2014) “Is There a Physician Peer Effect? Evidence from New Drug Prescriptions, ” Economic Inquiry 52:1, pp.116-137 (SSCI)

 

• Hockenberry, Jason, Hsien-Ming Lien, and Shin-Yi Chou (2010) “Surgeon and Hospital Volume as Quality Indicators for CABG in Taiwan: Examining Hazard to Mortality and Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity, ” Health Service Research  45:5, pp.1168-1187 (SSCI, SCI, IF:2.407)  

 

• Hsien-Ming Lien, Mingshan Lu, Ching-To Albert Ma, Thomas G. McGuire (2010) “Progress and Compliance in Alcohol Abuse Treatment,” Journal of Health Economics 29:2, pp. 213-225. (SSCI)

 

• Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu (2010) “The Role of Hospital Competition on Treatment Expenditure and Outcome: Evidence from Stroke and Cardiac Treatment in Taiwan,” Economic Inquiry 48:3, pp.668-689 (SSCI)
   

• ​Hockenberry, Jason,  Hsien-Ming Lien, and Shin-Yi Chou (2008) “The Impacts of Task Repetition and Temporal Breaks in Production on Human Capital and Productivity,” Journal of Human Capital 2:3, pp. 303-335 (SSCI)

 

• Hsien-Ming Lien, Wen-Chieh Wu, and Chu-Chia Lin (2008) “New Evidence on the Link between Housing Environment and Children's Educational Attainments,” Journal of Urban Economics, 64, pp. 408-421 (SSCI)

 

• Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou, and Jin-Tan Liu (2008) “Hospital Ownership and Performance: Evidence from Stroke and Cardiac Treatment in Taiwan,” Journal of Health Economics 27:5, pp. 1208-1223 (SSCI)

 

• Hsien-Ming Lien, Ching-To Albert Ma and Thomas McGuire (2004) "Provider-Client Interactions and Quantity of Health Care Use" Journal of Health Economics 23: pp. 1261-1283 (SSCI)

 

• Fleming, Lien, Ma and McGuire (2003) "Managed Care, Networks and Trends in Hospital Care for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment in Massachusetts: 1994-1999" Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 6:1, pp.3-12 (SSCI)