Po Yin Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6222356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Po Yin Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Po Yin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG P Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9019-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The unseen pain of the Vietnam War
We examine the long-term labor market consequences of exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, focusing on cohorts whose childhoods overlapped the spraying period. Exploiting district-level variation in herbicide exposure intensity, we find exposed individuals attain lower levels of schooling and reduce their labor supply by 7% relative to the mean. Among individuals who remain in their birth provinces, labor income is reduced by 26.7%. W…
Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia
Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations. Contrary to previous findings, we o…
Dynamics in the Returns to Capital
This paper uses the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as a natural experiment to estimate returns to capital over time. With a sample of surviving fishermen who lost their boats and received aid boats, we find that more productive fishermen before the disaster retained their productive edge ex-post, controlling for boat quality and fishing conditions. Returns to innate ability, measured by ex-ante productivity, became more important over time; while retu…
Mothers’ Marital Status and Type of Delivery Medical Care in Guatemala
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Mothers’ Marital Status and Type of Delivery Medical Care in Guatemala
Dynamics in the Returns to Capital
This paper uses the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as a natural experiment to estimate returns to capital over time. With a sample of surviving fishermen who lost their boats and received aid boats, we find that more productive fishermen before the disaster retained their productive edge ex-post, controlling for boat quality and fishing conditions. Returns to innate ability, measured by ex-ante productivity, became more important over time; while retu…
The unseen pain of the Vietnam War
We examine the long-term labor market consequences of exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, focusing on cohorts whose childhoods overlapped the spraying period. Exploiting district-level variation in herbicide exposure intensity, we find exposed individuals attain lower levels of schooling and reduce their labor supply by 7% relative to the mean. Among individuals who remain in their birth provinces, labor income is reduced by 26.7%. W…
Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia
Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations. Contrary to previous findings, we o…
Developing country (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Agent Orange (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Capital (architecture) (1 work) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work)