Albert Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3323-120X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Learning loss and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic
Learning disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic
We study children’s access to remote learning when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their parents’ perceptions about learning progress in seven Southeast Asian countries. This is the first regional analysis to systematically document students’ access to remote learning based on survey data and to investigate how school closures and remote learning access affected children’s learning progress. The results are based on survey re…
Examining thematic and emotional differences across Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube
Towards conceptualization and quantification of the digital divide
The digital divide gained new importance since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemics. However, the phenomenon is far from being fully conceptualized or effectively measured. The key question, whether digital divide is a mere extension of other social inequalities, or it has significant new meaning, remains largely unanswered; a reason is the lack of effective instruments of quantitative study of the phenomenon that would capture its complex nature. …
The returns to computer use in the Chinese labor market
With rising wages and increasing maturity of computer technology, computer use in the workplace is becoming increasingly common. Based on data from an urban labor survey, 58 percent of urban workers used computers at work in 2016. Using computer price and density as instrumental variables, we identify the estimation bias from the simultaneous determination of computer use and its productivity effect. We further identify the productivity effect ba…
Understanding user responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on Twitter from a terror management theory perspective
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Food Images
Obesity is a modern public health problem. Social media images can capture eating behavior and the potential implications to health, but research for identifying the healthiness level of the food image is relatively under-explored. This study presents a deep learning architecture that transfers features from a 152 residual layer network (ResNet) for predicting the level of healthiness of food images that were built using images from the Google im…
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents
The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task intensity of occupations based on survey data collected in 46 low-, middle-, and high-income countries. We find that within the same occupation jobs in low- a…
Home, School, and Community Deprivations
Few studies of childhood poverty in China have considered social deprivations, and fewer still have considered deprivations in contexts beyond the household. In this article, the authors propose a multi-context poverty measure that includes economic and social deprivations in the family, school, and community domains. The authors compare this measure to standard money-metric measures of poverty using a 15-year longitudinal study of children from …
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
Benefiting From Disaster? Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake
A better vision for development
Understanding wealth and housing inequality among China’s older population
In this article we study wealth inequality of China’s older population aged 45 and older using data from the 2011 national baseline of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). As housing wealth accounts for the lion’s share of household wealth in China, we provide detailed analysis of housing wealth differences in China, including an assessment of the importance of housing windfalls associated with housing reforms in the 1990s…
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
School Meals as a Safety Net
Despite the popularity of school meals as interventions in education, little evidence exists on \ntheir effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the \nState of Andhra Pradesh in India to assess the impact of the introduction of a national \nmidday meal programme on the anthropometric z-scores of primary school students, and \ninvestigates whether the programme had any impact on ameliorating the deteriorati…
Family Ties and Organizational Design
Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more decision rights and job responsibilities than nonfamily managers in the same firm. However, family managers face weaker incentives than professional managers, a…
Patterns and Correlates of Intergenerational Non-Time Transfers
Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children in Zhejiang and Gansu Provinces. The pilot is a unique data source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their children, and clearly distinguishes transfers between parents and childre…
Education and Reform in China
Part 1: Overview 1. Market Reforms and Educational Opportunity in China Emily Hannum, Albert Park and Kai-Ming Cheng Part 2: Finance and Access Under Market Reforms 2. School Equity in Rural China Wen Li, Albert Park and Sangui Wang 3. Emergence of Private Schools in China: Context, Characteristics and Implications Jing Lin 4. Educational Access for China's Post-Cultural Revolution Generation: Enrollment Patterns in 1990 Rachel Connelly and Zhenz…
Exporting and Firm Performance
We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the precrisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciat…
Health Outcomes and Socio-economic Status Among the Elderly in China
Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Risk and Household Grain Management in Developing Countries
A dynamic model is presented of a household's joint production, storage, and trade decisions when facing transaction costs and risk in prices and yields. Grain management decisions balance the goals of maximising profits and reducing consumption price risk. Model solutions calibrated to Chinese data show that grain's consumption role makes it an attractive form of precautionary saving even when households have access to credit, the joint nature o…
Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001
Migration and rural poverty in China
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
Education and Reform in China
Part 1: Overview 1. Market Reforms and Educational Opportunity in China Emily Hannum, Albert Park and Kai-Ming Cheng Part 2: Finance and Access Under Market Reforms 2. School Equity in Rural China Wen Li, Albert Park and Sangui Wang 3. Emergence of Private Schools in China: Context, Characteristics and Implications Jing Lin 4. Educational Access for China's Post-Cultural Revolution Generation: Enrollment Patterns in 1990 Rachel Connelly and Zhenz…
Microfinance with Chinese Characteristics
Risk and Household Grain Management in Developing Countries
A dynamic model is presented of a household's joint production, storage, and trade decisions when facing transaction costs and risk in prices and yields. Grain management decisions balance the goals of maximising profits and reducing consumption price risk. Model solutions calibrated to Chinese data show that grain's consumption role makes it an attractive form of precautionary saving even when households have access to credit, the joint nature o…
Joint liability lending and the rise and fall of China's township and village enterprises
Targeted poverty investments and economic growth in China
A better vision for development
Health Outcomes and Socio-economic Status Among the Elderly in China
Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Competition under credit rationing
Benefiting From Disaster? Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
School Meals as a Safety Net
Despite the popularity of school meals as interventions in education, little evidence exists on \ntheir effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the \nState of Andhra Pradesh in India to assess the impact of the introduction of a national \nmidday meal programme on the anthropometric z-scores of primary school students, and \ninvestigates whether the programme had any impact on ameliorating the deteriorati…
Understanding wealth and housing inequality among China’s older population
In this article we study wealth inequality of China’s older population aged 45 and older using data from the 2011 national baseline of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). As housing wealth accounts for the lion’s share of household wealth in China, we provide detailed analysis of housing wealth differences in China, including an assessment of the importance of housing windfalls associated with housing reforms in the 1990s…
Home, School, and Community Deprivations
Few studies of childhood poverty in China have considered social deprivations, and fewer still have considered deprivations in contexts beyond the household. In this article, the authors propose a multi-context poverty measure that includes economic and social deprivations in the family, school, and community domains. The authors compare this measure to standard money-metric measures of poverty using a 15-year longitudinal study of children from …
Bureaucrat to Entrepreneur
The pursuit of efficiency, on the one hand, and the desire for low-priced, abundant food for urban consumers on the other, has led China's reformers to undertake a series of erratic policy swings in the course of managing the nation's grain economy. Although some analysts have recognized the deleterious effects of such inconsistent policies on long-run economic development, political and economic considerations have until recently prevented polic…
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents
Rural Development and Dynamic Externalities in Taiwan's Structural Transformation
Targeted poverty investments and economic growth in China
Bureaucrat to Entrepreneur
The pursuit of efficiency, on the one hand, and the desire for low-priced, abundant food for urban consumers on the other, has led China's reformers to undertake a series of erratic policy swings in the course of managing the nation's grain economy. Although some analysts have recognized the deleterious effects of such inconsistent policies on long-run economic development, political and economic considerations have until recently prevented polic…
Microfinance with Chinese Characteristics
Impatience and Precommitment
Regional poverty targeting in China
Education and poverty in rural China
Joint liability lending and the rise and fall of China's township and village enterprises
Competition under credit rationing
Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001
Migration and rural poverty in China
Risk and Household Grain Management in Developing Countries
A dynamic model is presented of a household's joint production, storage, and trade decisions when facing transaction costs and risk in prices and yields. Grain management decisions balance the goals of maximising profits and reducing consumption price risk. Model solutions calibrated to Chinese data show that grain's consumption role makes it an attractive form of precautionary saving even when households have access to credit, the joint nature o…
Exporting and Firm Performance
We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the precrisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciat…
Health Outcomes and Socio-economic Status Among the Elderly in China
Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Patterns and Correlates of Intergenerational Non-Time Transfers
Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children in Zhejiang and Gansu Provinces. The pilot is a unique data source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their children, and clearly distinguishes transfers between parents and childre…
Education and Reform in China
Part 1: Overview 1. Market Reforms and Educational Opportunity in China Emily Hannum, Albert Park and Kai-Ming Cheng Part 2: Finance and Access Under Market Reforms 2. School Equity in Rural China Wen Li, Albert Park and Sangui Wang 3. Emergence of Private Schools in China: Context, Characteristics and Implications Jing Lin 4. Educational Access for China's Post-Cultural Revolution Generation: Enrollment Patterns in 1990 Rachel Connelly and Zhenz…
Family Ties and Organizational Design
Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more decision rights and job responsibilities than nonfamily managers in the same firm. However, family managers face weaker incentives than professional managers, a…
School Meals as a Safety Net
Despite the popularity of school meals as interventions in education, little evidence exists on \ntheir effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the \nState of Andhra Pradesh in India to assess the impact of the introduction of a national \nmidday meal programme on the anthropometric z-scores of primary school students, and \ninvestigates whether the programme had any impact on ameliorating the deteriorati…
Understanding wealth and housing inequality among China’s older population
In this article we study wealth inequality of China’s older population aged 45 and older using data from the 2011 national baseline of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). As housing wealth accounts for the lion’s share of household wealth in China, we provide detailed analysis of housing wealth differences in China, including an assessment of the importance of housing windfalls associated with housing reforms in the 1990s…
China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law
This article presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009−2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and effects on China’s workers. The Government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new Law, which has likely contributed to reversing a trend toward increasing informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the Law, however, varies…
A better vision for development
Benefiting From Disaster? Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake
Home, School, and Community Deprivations
Few studies of childhood poverty in China have considered social deprivations, and fewer still have considered deprivations in contexts beyond the household. In this article, the authors propose a multi-context poverty measure that includes economic and social deprivations in the family, school, and community domains. The authors compare this measure to standard money-metric measures of poverty using a 15-year longitudinal study of children from …
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of citywide disruptions. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using supply shocks as instruments and controlling for ability and school quality, suggesting that high-abilit…
Economics (25 works) · China (18 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works)