Tinh Doan
Biographic Data
| ID | 255178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tinh Doan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tinh |
| FAMILY NAME | Doan |
| SIGNATURE | DOAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2297-8187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From childhood malnutrition to adult mental illness: Covid-19 and the hidden legacy of malnutrition
INTRODUCTION: The impact of stunting, thinness and obesity on depression and anxiety during challenging times, such as COVID-19, has not been adequately explored. This study aimed to estimate these relationships using longitudinal data from the four countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. METHODS: We conducted an analysis using data from the Younger Cohort of the Young Lives study, which tracked 8000 children from 2002 to 2021. The first fi…
Ceilings: Gender Inequality in Hours, Earnings and Health
One reason gender earning gaps persist is that well-paid jobs presume long work hours, and these are incompatible with family care. Long hours also harm health, and the risks may increase for workers with care and domestic workloads, adding a gendered health penalty. Using representative, longitudinal data from Australia and Germany (144,430–153,659 observations for HILDA and SOEP surveys, respectively, 2002–2022), we model the interconnections b…
Disruption and inequity in work, family and mental health: A longitudinal study of Australian mothers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
These results indicate that large-scale, social upheaval during COVID-19 was most disruptive for mothers with fewer resources (personal, relational and job-related) and greater caregiving responsibilities. Increased challenges negotiating work and family commitments were associated with poorer mental health. The findings reinforce the need for integration between social and public health policy, particularly in times of widespread crisis
Double and triple burden of malnutrition and the role of geo-socio-ecological factors in Ethiopia: A bayesian geostatistical analysis
The present finding shows that Ethiopia is experiencing both a double and triple burden of malnutrition, with a significant overlap of overweight/obesity, stunting, and micronutrient deficiencies (i.e. triple burden) across the country. This highlights the need for geographically targeted integration of services that address all forms of malnutrition. The Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis (DTP) vaccine was negatively associated with stunting and VAD, …
Mismatch between actual and preferred number of days working from home: Parental status, work-family conflict, and stress
Mismatch between actual and preferred number of days working from home: parental status, work-family conflict, and stress
What explains the smoking prevalence disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians
Persistent disparities in smoking prevalence between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians have been widely attributed to systemic discrimination and the enduring impacts of colonisation. However, limited empirical evidence exists on the extent to which these structural and social determinants contribute to the observed gap. This study investigates the drivers of smoking prevalence disparities using nationally representative longitudinal data…
Child stunting, thinness, and their academic performance in Ethiopia: A longitudinal study
Our findings indicate that stunting is significantly negatively associated with child academic performance (PPVT and math scores), after adjusting for child, household, and parental socio-demographic factors, location, and prior academic performance. To improve the intellectual capabilities and human capital of future generations, policy measures in Ethiopia should prioritize addressing childhood thinness and stunting
The Economic Costs of Men's Long Work Hours for Women: Evidence on the Gender Wage Earnings Gap from Australia and Germany
Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. Using a two-stage instrumental variable Oaxaca-Blin…
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context
Using nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25–64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. Our findings indicate that health selection into the labour market occurs not only due to individual's own hea…
Health and occupation: The limits to older adults' work hours
More people are working into older age, raising questions about how many hours they can work before their health becomes compromised. This paper models work-hour tipping points for mental health and vitality among older Australian workers aged 50–70 years. We use longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, 2005–2016 (about 44,900 observations), and bootstrapping Three Stage Least Squares (3SLS) es…
Healthy minds live in healthy bodies – effect of physical health on mental health: Evidence from Australian longitudinal data
It is well known that physical and mental health are closely related, with growing evidence for biological and behavioural pathways. Mostly the research has focussed on mental health as the key driver of this inter-connection; the extent physical health shapes mental health has received less attention. We aim to derive robust estimates of the unique role physical health may play in shaping mental health outcomes. To do so we use a novel approach,…
Liminality and insecurity: A qualitative study of young adults’ vulnerabilities during the first twelve months of Covid-19 in Australia
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews explored participants' experiences and responses to COVID-19, covering areas such as disrupted every…
The impact of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians: A quasi-experimental approach
Work conditions such as job demand can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate pathway effects of exogenous factors on mental health via sleep, and the direct effect of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians. We employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-experimental (instrumental variable) approach, which can address reciprocal relationships between sleep …
Work intensity and workers’ sleep: A case of working Australians
Experiencing poor sleep quality affects an individual’s health and wellbeing. Sleep quality is well evidenced to be influenced by work conditions such as long work hours, work stress and shift work, but there is little evidence on the relationship between high work intensity and sleep quality. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey waves 2013 and 2017, this study applies lagged models to investigate …
Unencumbered and still unequal? Work hour - Health tipping points and gender inequality among older, employed Australian couples
Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women's time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what happens to their mental health, vitality and wealth. We used a representative household-based panel o…
Health promoting and demoting consumption: What accounts for budget share differentials by ethnicity in New Zealand
Our study suggested ethnic inequities in the health risk consumption behaviour are evidenced in NZ. Interventions targeting education and employment that significantly affect household budget shares on risk factors (i.e., harmful consumption) for health loss may help narrow the gaps
The private sector and multidimensional poverty reduction in Vietnam: A cross‐province panel data analysis
This study examines the role of private sector development (PSD) in multidimensional poverty alleviation in Vietnam, using provincial panel data for the 2010–2019 period. PSD is measured as the proportion of the workforce in (i) all private firms, (ii) domestic private firms, and (iii) multinational firms, respectively. We use a two‐step general method of moment estimator to account for unobservable heterogeneity, simultaneity, and the relationsh…
Free versus regulated migration: Comparing the wages of the New Zealand‐born, other migrants and the Australia‐born workers in Australia
New Zealanders can cross borders freely, work and live in Australia indefinitely thanks to the Trans‐Tasman Travel Agreement. This paper uses a recently developed decomposition method to decompose the weekly wage gap at various quantiles on the wage distribution between New Zealand‐born (NZ‐born) and Australian‐born workers, and between NZ‐born workers, migrants from other English speaking countries (OESC), and from non‐English speaking countries…
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered
We investigate time inequity as an explanatory mechanism for gendered physical activity disparity. Our mixed-effect generalized linear model with two-stage residual inclusion framework uses longitudinal data, capturing differing exchanges and trade-offs in time resources. The first stage estimates within-household exchanges of paid and family work hours. Estimates show that men's employment increases women's family work hours while reducing their…
What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
Blue collar timescapes: Work, health, and pension eligibility age for mature age Australian bus drivers
Assumptions about time, value, labour, and health coalesce in the policy decision to extend the pension eligibility age in Australia from 65 to 67 years. Acknowledging the multiple, often incompatible ways in which time is conceptualised and experienced, we question the expectation of extending Australians’ working lives. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 19 male and female bus drivers over the age of 55 in Australia, we illustrate that …
The effect of various income sources on income inequality: A comparison across ethnic groups in Vietnam
Heterogeneous impacts of provincial governance on household welfare in Vietnam
This study investigated the role of provincial governance in the growth of per capita income of Vietnamese households, using a balanced panel data set for the period 2012–2014. Although we found no evidence for the influence of provincial governance when a linear fixed‐effect regression estimator was used, the results from a fixed‐effect quantile regression estimator revealed that provincial governance has a positive effect on all groups (but not…
Lost in Transition? Declining Returns to Education in Vietnam
What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
Household credit for the poor and child schooling in peri-urban Vietnam
This paper uses a novel dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence of the effect. However, breaking down credit into formal and informal credit and credit for boy and girl schooling provides better insights. The paper suggests that to obtain the target of sustainable poverty reduction, easing a…
The Economic Costs of Men's Long Work Hours for Women: Evidence on the Gender Wage Earnings Gap from Australia and Germany
Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. Using a two-stage instrumental variable Oaxaca-Blin…
The private sector and multidimensional poverty reduction in Vietnam: A cross‐province panel data analysis
This study examines the role of private sector development (PSD) in multidimensional poverty alleviation in Vietnam, using provincial panel data for the 2010–2019 period. PSD is measured as the proportion of the workforce in (i) all private firms, (ii) domestic private firms, and (iii) multinational firms, respectively. We use a two‐step general method of moment estimator to account for unobservable heterogeneity, simultaneity, and the relationsh…
Free versus regulated migration: Comparing the wages of the New Zealand‐born, other migrants and the Australia‐born workers in Australia
New Zealanders can cross borders freely, work and live in Australia indefinitely thanks to the Trans‐Tasman Travel Agreement. This paper uses a recently developed decomposition method to decompose the weekly wage gap at various quantiles on the wage distribution between New Zealand‐born (NZ‐born) and Australian‐born workers, and between NZ‐born workers, migrants from other English speaking countries (OESC), and from non‐English speaking countries…
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered
We investigate time inequity as an explanatory mechanism for gendered physical activity disparity. Our mixed-effect generalized linear model with two-stage residual inclusion framework uses longitudinal data, capturing differing exchanges and trade-offs in time resources. The first stage estimates within-household exchanges of paid and family work hours. Estimates show that men's employment increases women's family work hours while reducing their…
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
The impact of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians: A quasi-experimental approach
Work conditions such as job demand can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate pathway effects of exogenous factors on mental health via sleep, and the direct effect of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians. We employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-experimental (instrumental variable) approach, which can address reciprocal relationships between sleep …
Lost in Transition? Declining Returns to Education in Vietnam
Household credit for the poor and child schooling in peri-urban Vietnam
This paper uses a novel dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence of the effect. However, breaking down credit into formal and informal credit and credit for boy and girl schooling provides better insights. The paper suggests that to obtain the target of sustainable poverty reduction, easing a…
Heterogeneous Credit Impacts on Health Care Spending of the Poor in Peri-Urban Areas, Vietnam: Quantile Treatment Effect Estimation
Quantile treatment effects are estimated to study the impacts of household credit access on health spending by poor households in one District of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There are significant positive effects of credit on the health budget shares of households with low health care spending. In contrast, when an average treatment effect is estimated, there is no discernible impact of credit access on health spending. Hence, typical approaches t…
Lost in Transition? Declining Returns to Education in Vietnam
Heterogeneous impacts of provincial governance on household welfare in Vietnam
This study investigated the role of provincial governance in the growth of per capita income of Vietnamese households, using a balanced panel data set for the period 2012–2014. Although we found no evidence for the influence of provincial governance when a linear fixed‐effect regression estimator was used, the results from a fixed‐effect quantile regression estimator revealed that provincial governance has a positive effect on all groups (but not…
Blue collar timescapes: Work, health, and pension eligibility age for mature age Australian bus drivers
Assumptions about time, value, labour, and health coalesce in the policy decision to extend the pension eligibility age in Australia from 65 to 67 years. Acknowledging the multiple, often incompatible ways in which time is conceptualised and experienced, we question the expectation of extending Australians’ working lives. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 19 male and female bus drivers over the age of 55 in Australia, we illustrate that …
The effect of various income sources on income inequality: A comparison across ethnic groups in Vietnam
What Contributes to Gendered Work Time Inequality? An Australian Case Study
Work intensity and workers’ sleep: A case of working Australians
Experiencing poor sleep quality affects an individual’s health and wellbeing. Sleep quality is well evidenced to be influenced by work conditions such as long work hours, work stress and shift work, but there is little evidence on the relationship between high work intensity and sleep quality. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey waves 2013 and 2017, this study applies lagged models to investigate …
Unencumbered and still unequal? Work hour - Health tipping points and gender inequality among older, employed Australian couples
Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women's time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what happens to their mental health, vitality and wealth. We used a representative household-based panel o…
Health promoting and demoting consumption: What accounts for budget share differentials by ethnicity in New Zealand
Our study suggested ethnic inequities in the health risk consumption behaviour are evidenced in NZ. Interventions targeting education and employment that significantly affect household budget shares on risk factors (i.e., harmful consumption) for health loss may help narrow the gaps
The private sector and multidimensional poverty reduction in Vietnam: A cross‐province panel data analysis
This study examines the role of private sector development (PSD) in multidimensional poverty alleviation in Vietnam, using provincial panel data for the 2010–2019 period. PSD is measured as the proportion of the workforce in (i) all private firms, (ii) domestic private firms, and (iii) multinational firms, respectively. We use a two‐step general method of moment estimator to account for unobservable heterogeneity, simultaneity, and the relationsh…
Free versus regulated migration: Comparing the wages of the New Zealand‐born, other migrants and the Australia‐born workers in Australia
New Zealanders can cross borders freely, work and live in Australia indefinitely thanks to the Trans‐Tasman Travel Agreement. This paper uses a recently developed decomposition method to decompose the weekly wage gap at various quantiles on the wage distribution between New Zealand‐born (NZ‐born) and Australian‐born workers, and between NZ‐born workers, migrants from other English speaking countries (OESC), and from non‐English speaking countries…
Time for Physical Activity: Different, Unequal, Gendered
We investigate time inequity as an explanatory mechanism for gendered physical activity disparity. Our mixed-effect generalized linear model with two-stage residual inclusion framework uses longitudinal data, capturing differing exchanges and trade-offs in time resources. The first stage estimates within-household exchanges of paid and family work hours. Estimates show that men's employment increases women's family work hours while reducing their…
Healthy minds live in healthy bodies – effect of physical health on mental health: Evidence from Australian longitudinal data
It is well known that physical and mental health are closely related, with growing evidence for biological and behavioural pathways. Mostly the research has focussed on mental health as the key driver of this inter-connection; the extent physical health shapes mental health has received less attention. We aim to derive robust estimates of the unique role physical health may play in shaping mental health outcomes. To do so we use a novel approach,…
Liminality and insecurity: A qualitative study of young adults’ vulnerabilities during the first twelve months of Covid-19 in Australia
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews explored participants' experiences and responses to COVID-19, covering areas such as disrupted every…
The impact of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians: A quasi-experimental approach
Work conditions such as job demand can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate pathway effects of exogenous factors on mental health via sleep, and the direct effect of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians. We employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-experimental (instrumental variable) approach, which can address reciprocal relationships between sleep …
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
Health selection into employment in a family health and time use context
Using nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia, this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25–64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. Our findings indicate that health selection into the labour market occurs not only due to individual's own hea…
Health and occupation: The limits to older adults' work hours
More people are working into older age, raising questions about how many hours they can work before their health becomes compromised. This paper models work-hour tipping points for mental health and vitality among older Australian workers aged 50–70 years. We use longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, 2005–2016 (about 44,900 observations), and bootstrapping Three Stage Least Squares (3SLS) es…
Disruption and inequity in work, family and mental health: A longitudinal study of Australian mothers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
These results indicate that large-scale, social upheaval during COVID-19 was most disruptive for mothers with fewer resources (personal, relational and job-related) and greater caregiving responsibilities. Increased challenges negotiating work and family commitments were associated with poorer mental health. The findings reinforce the need for integration between social and public health policy, particularly in times of widespread crisis
Double and triple burden of malnutrition and the role of geo-socio-ecological factors in Ethiopia: A bayesian geostatistical analysis
The present finding shows that Ethiopia is experiencing both a double and triple burden of malnutrition, with a significant overlap of overweight/obesity, stunting, and micronutrient deficiencies (i.e. triple burden) across the country. This highlights the need for geographically targeted integration of services that address all forms of malnutrition. The Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis (DTP) vaccine was negatively associated with stunting and VAD, …
Mismatch between actual and preferred number of days working from home: Parental status, work-family conflict, and stress
Mismatch between actual and preferred number of days working from home: parental status, work-family conflict, and stress
What explains the smoking prevalence disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians
Persistent disparities in smoking prevalence between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians have been widely attributed to systemic discrimination and the enduring impacts of colonisation. However, limited empirical evidence exists on the extent to which these structural and social determinants contribute to the observed gap. This study investigates the drivers of smoking prevalence disparities using nationally representative longitudinal data…
Child stunting, thinness, and their academic performance in Ethiopia: A longitudinal study
Our findings indicate that stunting is significantly negatively associated with child academic performance (PPVT and math scores), after adjusting for child, household, and parental socio-demographic factors, location, and prior academic performance. To improve the intellectual capabilities and human capital of future generations, policy measures in Ethiopia should prioritize addressing childhood thinness and stunting
The Economic Costs of Men's Long Work Hours for Women: Evidence on the Gender Wage Earnings Gap from Australia and Germany
Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. Using a two-stage instrumental variable Oaxaca-Blin…
Economics (20 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Mental health (8 works)