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Dr Wang-Sheng Lee

Research Fellow
Melbourne 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 worked for more than 5 years as a researcher for Abt Associates Inc. (www.abtassociates.com) in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) where he was part of a team that performed rigorous experimental welfare reform evaluations for the states of Delaware and Indiana.

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 wrote his PhD thesis on Aspects of Propensity Score Matching.

Currently working in the Labour Economics and Social Policy Research Program, Wang is involved with projects researching low-pay dynamics, welfare transitions, child care benefits and microsimulation of labour supply. His current research interests also include program evaluation techniques, estimating the returns to education and happiness economics.

Current Working Papers

Lee, W. and S. Suardi. "Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool."

Johnston, D. and W. Lee. "Explaining BMI Growth: A Multifactor Decomposition Analysis."

Lee, W., U. Oguzoglu and S. Schurer. "Dynamic Adaptation of Well-Being in Panel Data."

Lee, W. and U. Oguzoglu. "An Analysis of the Small Sample Properties of the Wooldridge Estimator."

Lee, W. "On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models," manuscript. (revised March 2008)

Lee, W. "Propensity Score Matching and Variations on the Balancing Test," manuscript.
(revised April 2008)

Lee, W. and U. Oguzoglu. "Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis," Melbourne Institute Working Paper 28/07. (pdf)

Lee, W. "Immigration and Wages: An Open Economy Model," Melbourne Institute Working Paper 7/07. (pdf)

Lee, W. "Evaluating the Effects of a Mandatory Government Program using Matched Groups
within a Similar Geographic Location," manuscript. (pdf).

Lee, W. "A Note on Assessing Multivariate Balance Conditional on the Propensity Score using
Undirected Graphical Models," manuscript. (pdf)

Publications

Kalb, G. and W. Lee. "Childcare Demand and Household Labour Supply in Australia: an Update," Australian Economic Papers, forthcoming. (working paper version)

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. (working paper version)

Lee, W. and U. Oguzoglu. (2007) "Income Support and Stigma Effects for Young Australians," forthcoming in the Australian Economic Review. (working paper version under previous title "Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia.")

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.

Recent Conference/Seminar Activities

Lee, W. (2007). "On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models," 3rd Annual IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn (Germany), 19-20 October.

Lee, W. (2007). 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. (presentation)

Lee, W. (2007). "Evaluating the Effects of a Mandatory Government Program using Matched Groups
within a Similar Geographic Location," 2007 Conference for the European Association of Labour Economists, Oslo (Norway), 20-22 September. (presentation)

Lee, W. (2006). "Propensity Score Matching and Variations on the Balancing Test," 3rd Conference on Policy Evaluation, ZEW, Mannheim (Germany), 27-28 October. (presentation) (comments)

Lee, W. (2006). 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. (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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