Andy M. Lee
Teaching & Research
Research
Does Personal Freedom Cause Innovations?
Abstract:
This study provides evidence that personal freedom liberalization has a significant (at 10% level) and a robust negative effect on patent per capita. Our empirical strategy includes the construction of a dichotomous measure of personal freedom to mitigate the measurement error and control for country fixed effects. The main results use a pooled panel model with IV strategy and show that liberalization decreases patent per capita by about 0.38% per year beginning from 10 years after liberalization.
Ideological Congruence: How Electoral Winners Affect Mental Health.
Abstract:
This study investigates the effect of being a regional electoral winner on mental health. Our empirical strategy includes pooled cross-sectional models across time series, pseudo-panel model and standard panel fixed effects model. The main results show the effectiveness of using standard panel fixed effects models with instrumental variable strategy, and it shows that being a regional electoral winner significantly decreases an individual's psychological distress.
Teaching
- Microeconomics Analysis (6021)
- Applied Econometrics (6001)
- Causal Inference (6074)
- Competition Economics (6034)
- Economic Policy (6075)
- Development Economics (6060)
- Behavioural Economics (6079)
- Intermediate Microeconomics (2001)
- Intermediate Macroeconomics (2002)