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