Forecasting
Forecasting Housing Prices under Different Market Segmentation Assumptions (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Neelam Poudyal, and Roland K. Roberts), Urban Studies (2009)
Three types of market segmentation strategies are available to estimate hedonic housing price models—i.e. no...
Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (with Yuhong Yang), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (2007)
In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of...
Development Economics
Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Family Economic Issues in Developing and Transition Economies (with Jack Hou), Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2009)
Development and inequality: Evidence from an endogenous switching regression without regime separation, Economics Letters (2007)
An endogenous switching regression without regime separation is fitted to examine the relationship between development...
A decade's story of childhood malnutrition inequality in China: Where you live does matter (with David B. Eastwood and Steven T. Yen), China Economic Review (2007)
A concentration index methodology to analyze the inequality in childhood malnutrition in China is outlined....
Spatial variation of output-input elasticities: Evidence from Chinese county-level agricultural production data (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Steven T. Yen, and Burton English), Papers in Regional Science (2007)
An agricultural production function is estimated using a Chinese county-level dataset along with associated geographic...
Applied Econometrics
Geographically weighted regression bandwidth selection and spatial autocorrelation: an empirical example using Chinese agriculture data (with Seong-Hoon Cho and Dayton M. Lambert), Applied Economics Letters (2010)
This research note examined the performance of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) using two calibration methods....
Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-Parametric Bootstrapping (with Daneil Monchuk and Yosef Bonaparte), China Economic Review (2010)
In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China's...
Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Family Economic Issues in Developing and Transition Economies (with Jack Hou), Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2009)
Forecasting Housing Prices under Different Market Segmentation Assumptions (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Neelam Poudyal, and Roland K. Roberts), Urban Studies (2009)
Three types of market segmentation strategies are available to estimate hedonic housing price models—i.e. no...
Efficiency and technology gap in China's agriculture: A regional meta-frontier analysis (with Shunfeng Song), China Economic Review (2008)
This paper utilizes a unique county-level dataset to examine technical efficiency and technology gap in...
Food Stamp Program Participation and Food Insecurity: An Instrumental Variables Approach (with Steven T. Yen, Margaret Andrews, and David B. Eastwood), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2008)
The relationship between Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation and household food insecurity (FI) is investigated...
Does smoking have a causal effect on weight reduction?," Journal of Family and Economic Issues (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2007)
This study examines the relationship between smoking and body mass index (BMI) with a simultaneous...
CONCINDC: Stata module to calculate concentration index with both individual and grouped data (2007)
oncindc computes the concentration index (CI) for micro data with a categorical welfare variable or...
Spatial variation of output-input elasticities: Evidence from Chinese county-level agricultural production data (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Steven T. Yen, and Burton English), Papers in Regional Science (2007)
An agricultural production function is estimated using a Chinese county-level dataset along with associated geographic...
Better technology, better plots, or better farmers? Identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farms: A comment (with Steven T. Yen), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2006)
The effects of urban sprawl on body mass index: where people live does matter (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Steven T. Yen, and David B. Eastwood), Consumer Interests Annual (2006)
This study examined the effects of urban sprawl on body weights among U.S. adults using...
Measuring county-level technical efficiency of Chinese agriculture: a spatial analysis (with Wallace E. Huffman), China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects (2006)
On bias correction in the multivariate sample-selection model (with Steven T. Yen), Applied Economics (2005)
Heien and Wessells' two-step estimator for the multivariate sample-selection model has been used extensively during...
Effects of Food Stamp Participation on Body Weight and Obesity (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005)
Health Economics
Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States (with Kakoli Roy, Anne C. Haddix, and Stephen B. Thacker), Health Policy (2010)
Objective Recent studies indicate continuing health disparities across geographic units in the US. This paper...
The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States (with David O. Meltzer), Working Paper Series of The National Bureau of Economic Research (2009)
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as...
Lifestyles, Demographics, Dietary Behavior, and Obesity: A Switching Regression Analysis (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), Health services research (2009)
Objectives. To investigate the effects of lifestyles, demographics, and dietary behavior on overweight and...
Prevention Effectiveness (with Kakoli Roy and Anne Haddix), Principles of Public Health Practice (2009)
Calculating concentration index with repetitive values of indicators of economic welfare (with Kakoli Roy), Journal of Health Economics (2009)
Repetitive values of the ranking indicators of economic welfare are often introduced due to incidental...
Beefing up with the Chans: Evidence for the effects of relative income and income inequality on health from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (with David O. Meltzer), Social Science & Medicine (2008)
A great deal of research has examined the hypothesis that the well-being of individuals is...
Food Stamp Program Participation and Food Insecurity: An Instrumental Variables Approach (with Steven T. Yen, Margaret Andrews, and David B. Eastwood), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2008)
The relationship between Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation and household food insecurity (FI) is investigated...
Technical notes for "calculating concentration index with repetitive values of the welfare variable" (with Kakoli Roy) (2008)
This technical note provides the proof of Theorem 1 in “Calculating concentration index with repetitive...
Does smoking have a causal effect on weight reduction?," Journal of Family and Economic Issues (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2007)
This study examines the relationship between smoking and body mass index (BMI) with a simultaneous...
A decade's story of childhood malnutrition inequality in China: Where you live does matter (with David B. Eastwood and Steven T. Yen), China Economic Review (2007)
A concentration index methodology to analyze the inequality in childhood malnutrition in China is outlined....
The effects of urban sprawl on body mass index: where people live does matter (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Steven T. Yen, and David B. Eastwood), Consumer Interests Annual (2006)
This study examined the effects of urban sprawl on body weights among U.S. adults using...
Effects of Food Stamp Participation on Body Weight and Obesity (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005)
Regional Economics
Geographically weighted regression bandwidth selection and spatial autocorrelation: an empirical example using Chinese agriculture data (with Seong-Hoon Cho and Dayton M. Lambert), Applied Economics Letters (2010)
This research note examined the performance of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) using two calibration methods....
Forecasting Housing Prices under Different Market Segmentation Assumptions (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Neelam Poudyal, and Roland K. Roberts), Urban Studies (2009)
Three types of market segmentation strategies are available to estimate hedonic housing price models—i.e. no...
Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices: The Case of Knox County, Tennessee (with Seong-Hoon Cho and Steven T. Yen), The Review of Regional Studies (2008)
This study tests the hypothesis that a higher present value of expected rental stream of...
Spatial variation of output-input elasticities: Evidence from Chinese county-level agricultural production data (with Seong-Hoon Cho, Steven T. Yen, and Burton English), Papers in Regional Science (2007)
An agricultural production function is estimated using a Chinese county-level dataset along with associated geographic...
Measuring county-level technical efficiency of Chinese agriculture: a spatial analysis (with Wallace E. Huffman), China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects (2006)
Agriculture
Geographically weighted regression bandwidth selection and spatial autocorrelation: an empirical example using Chinese agriculture data (with Seong-Hoon Cho and Dayton M. Lambert), Applied Economics Letters (2010)
This research note examined the performance of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) using two calibration methods....
Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-Parametric Bootstrapping (with Daneil Monchuk and Yosef Bonaparte), China Economic Review (2010)
In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China's...
Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China (with Wallace E. Huffman and Scott Rozelle), China Economic Review (2009)
In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data of Chinese farms grouped...
Efficiency and technology gap in China's agriculture: A regional meta-frontier analysis (with Shunfeng Song), China Economic Review (2008)
This paper utilizes a unique county-level dataset to examine technical efficiency and technology gap in...
Better technology, better plots, or better farmers? Identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farms: A comment (with Steven T. Yen), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2006)
Measuring county-level technical efficiency of Chinese agriculture: a spatial analysis (with Wallace E. Huffman), China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects (2006)
Public Health
Examining the Role of Gender in Career Advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Kakoli Roy and Carol A. Gotway Crawford), American Journal of Public Health (2010)
During the past decade, efforts to promote gender parity in the healing and public health...
Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States (with Kakoli Roy, Anne C. Haddix, and Stephen B. Thacker), Health Policy (2010)
Objective Recent studies indicate continuing health disparities across geographic units in the US. This paper...
Economic Perspective on Strategic Human Capital Management and Planning for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Carol A. Gotway Crawford and Kakoli Roy), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
An organization's workforce-or human capital-is its most valuable asset. The 2002 President's Management Agenda emphasizes...
Perspectives on Public Health Workforce Research (with W. Thomas Summerfelt, Kakoli Roy, Zhuo Chen, David O. Meltzer, and Stephen B. Thacker), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Workforce and Career Development is committed...
Prevention Effectiveness (with Kakoli Roy and Anne Haddix), Principles of Public Health Practice (2009)
China
Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-Parametric Bootstrapping (with Daneil Monchuk and Yosef Bonaparte), China Economic Review (2010)
In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China's...
Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China (with Wallace E. Huffman and Scott Rozelle), China Economic Review (2009)
In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data of Chinese farms grouped...
Obesity
The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States (with David O. Meltzer), Working Paper Series of The National Bureau of Economic Research (2009)
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as...
Lifestyles, Demographics, Dietary Behavior, and Obesity: A Switching Regression Analysis (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), Health services research (2009)
Objectives. To investigate the effects of lifestyles, demographics, and dietary behavior on overweight and...
Workforce
Examining the Role of Gender in Career Advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Kakoli Roy and Carol A. Gotway Crawford), American Journal of Public Health (2010)
During the past decade, efforts to promote gender parity in the healing and public health...
Economic Perspective on Strategic Human Capital Management and Planning for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Carol A. Gotway Crawford and Kakoli Roy), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
An organization's workforce-or human capital-is its most valuable asset. The 2002 President's Management Agenda emphasizes...
Perspectives on Public Health Workforce Research (with W. Thomas Summerfelt, Kakoli Roy, Zhuo Chen, David O. Meltzer, and Stephen B. Thacker), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Workforce and Career Development is committed...
workforce
Examining the Role of Gender in Career Advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Kakoli Roy and Carol A. Gotway Crawford), American Journal of Public Health (2010)
During the past decade, efforts to promote gender parity in the healing and public health...
Economic Perspective on Strategic Human Capital Management and Planning for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Carol A. Gotway Crawford and Kakoli Roy), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
An organization's workforce-or human capital-is its most valuable asset. The 2002 President's Management Agenda emphasizes...
Perspectives on Public Health Workforce Research (with W. Thomas Summerfelt, Kakoli Roy, Zhuo Chen, David O. Meltzer, and Stephen B. Thacker), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Workforce and Career Development is committed...