Xueyan Zhao

 

B.Sc. (Mathematics), Peking University

M.Eng,(Econometrics), Tsinghua University

Ph.D.(Economics), University of New England

 

Associate Professor, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, and Centre for Health Economics,

Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA

 

Location:

Econometrics: Room 681E, Menzies Building (Building 11). Phone: IDD + 61 3 9905 2415; Fax: IDD + 61 3 9905 5474

Centre for Health Economics: Room 298, STRIP Building (Building 75). Phone: IDD + 61 3 9905 8411; Fax: IDD + 61 3 9905 8344

Email: Xueyan.zhao@buseco.monash.edu.au

 

Research Interests

Applied econometrics, discrete and limited dependent variable models, microeconometric models with applications in health, education, migration, labour, and agricultural economics.

 

PhD Supervision

  • Preety Ramful: Recreational Drug Consumption in Australia: An Econometric Analysis (principal supervisor).
  • Cain Polidano: Voluntary Labour Supply in Australia (principal supervisor).
  • Weiping Wu: Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia (principal supervisor).
  • Xiaohui Zhang: Econometric Analysis of Individual Health Status, Labour Market Outcomes and Health Service Utilisation (principal supervisor).
  • Dawn Nguyen: Econometric Models of Autralian Broadacre Agricultural Production (principal supervisor).
  • Molla Huq: Education and Labour Market Outcomes for Australian Youth (joint supervisor).
  • Ying Chen: Equity in access to health care: An analysis of elective surgery waiting times in Victoria (principal supervisor).
  • Bing Li: Analysis of Access to Health Care in China (associate supervisor).
  • Stuart Mounter: An Equilibrium Displacement Model of the Australian Wool Industry, University of New England (external supervisor)
  • Annie Ambarawati: Evaluation of Beef Cattle Development Polices in Bali, University of New England (external supervisor). Completed in 2003.

Competitive Research Grants

  • ARC Discovery Grant (2008-2010) “Impacts of Population Ageing and Prevalence of Chronic Illnesses on Labour Market Outcomes and Health Service Utilisation”, jointly with A/Professor Brett Inder, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Professor Andrew Jones, University of York, UK and Professor Cheng Hsiao, University of Southern California, US.
  • ARC Discovery Grant (2008-2010) “Health production functions: effects of socioeconomic and lifestyle factors on health status”, jointly with A/Prof Bruce Hollingsworth, Prof Jeff Richardson, Centre for Health Economics, and A/Prof Mark Harris, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University.
  • ARC Discovery Project (2005-2007), “Analysis of Drug Consumption in Australia Using New Microeconometric Techniques for Unit Record Data”, jointly with Dr Mark Harris of Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University and Professor William Griffiths of the University of Melbourne.
  • ARC Linkage Project (2005-2007), “Evaluating Research Policy in Australian Broadacre Agriculture – Accounting for Interactions between Beef, Sheep Meat, Wool, and Grains Industries”, jointly with Professor Keith McLaren of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University.
  • Australian Grape and Wine R&D Corporation (2006/7-2007/8) “Microeconometric Studies of Australian Wine Consumption”, jointly with Dr Glyn Wittwer, Centre for Policy Studies, Monash University.
  • Australian Grape and Wine R&D Corporation (2004-2006), “Enhancing Wine Market Intelligence Through Economic Research”, with Dr Glyn Wittwer, Centre for Policy Studies, Monash University.
  • ARC Large Grant (2001-2003), “Modelling Illicit Markets: The Case of Marijuana”, jointly with Professor Ken Clements, University of Western Australia. • ARC SPIRT Grant (1997-1999), “Returns to New Technologies and Promotions in the Australian Beef Industry”, Professor William Griffiths of the University of New England.

Publications

  • Harris, M. and Zhao, X., “Modelling Tobacco Consumption with a Zero-Inflated Ordered Probit Model.”, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
  • Ramful, P. and Zhao, X., “Demand for Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroin in Australia: A Multivariate Probit Approach”, Applied Economics, forthcoming.
  • Ramful, P. and Zhao, X. “Heterogeneity in Alcohol Consumption: The Case of Beer, Wine and Spirits in Australia”, Economic Record, forthcoming.
  • Harris, M., P. Ramful, and X. Zhao (2006), “Alcohol Consumption in Australia: An Application of the OGEV Model to Micro-Unit Data”, Journal of Health Economics, 25(4): 782-801.
  • Zhang, Y. and X. Zhao (2006), “Love of Variety and Scale Implications: An Empirical Evaluation”, Division of Labour and Transaction Costs - A Journal of Society of Inframarginal Economics, Vol. 1(2): 185-201.
  • Ambarawati, I.A., Zhao, X., Griffith, G.R. and Piggott, R.R. (2006), "Bali beef industry: An equilibrium displacement model approach", Journal on Socio-Economics of Agriculture and Agribusiness, Vol. 6, No. 1.
  • Zhao, X. and M. Harris (2004). “Demand for Marijuana, Alcohol and Tobacco: Participation, Levels of Consumption, and Cross-Equation Correlations.” Economic Record 80(251): 394-410.
  • Zhang, Y. and X. Zhao (2004), “Testing the Scale Effects in the Fujita-Krugman Urbanization Model”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization 55(2): 207-222.
  • Ambarawati, I.A., Griffith, G.R., Piggott R.R. and Zhao, X. (2004), "The cost to the Bali beef industry of the October 2002 terrorist attack", Australian Agribusiness Review, Volume 12, Paper No. 8.
  • Zhao, X., K.Anderson and G.Wittwer (2003), “Who Gains from Australian Generic Wine R&D and Promotion?” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(2): 181-212.
  • Zhao, X., J.Mullen, G.Griffith, R.Piggott and W.Griffiths (2003), “The Incidence of Gains and Taxes Associated with R&D and Promotion in the Australian Beef Industry”, Agribusiness: An International Journal, 19(3): 333-344.
  • Zhao, X. (2003) “Who Bears the Burden and Who Receives the Gain? – The Case of GWRDC R&D Investments in the Australian Grape and Wine Industry.” Agribusiness: An International Journal, 19(3): 355-366.
  • Wittwer, G. M. and X. Zhao (2001), ‘Book Review: Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: New Institutional Arrangements and Economic Applications, edited by K. Fuglie and D. Schimmelpfennig’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 45(4): 652-654.
  • Zhao, X., G. Griffith and J. Mullen (2001), “Returns to New Technologies in the Australian Beef Industry: On-farm Research versus Off-farm Research”, Australasian Agribusiness Review 9: 1-18.
  • Griffiths, W. and X. Zhao (2000), "A Unified Approach to Sensitivity Analysis in Equilibrium Displacement Models: Comment", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(1)(February): 236-240.
  • Zhao, X., W.Griffiths, G.Griffith and J.Mullen (2000), "Probability Distributions for Economic Surplus Changes: The Case of Technical Change in the Australian Wool Industry", Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 44(1): 83-106.
  • Zhao, X., J. Mullen, G. Griffith, W. Griffiths and R. Piggott (2000), “An Equilibrium Displacement Model of the Australian Beef Industry”, Economics Research Report, No. 4, pp. 129, NSW Agriculture, Orang.
  • Zhao, X., J.D.Mullen and G.R.Griffith (1997), "Functional Forms, Exogenous Shifts and Economic Surplus Changes", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79(4) (November): 1243-1251.

 

Papers under Revision or Review

  • Damrongplasit, K., Hsiao, C. and Zhao, X., “Decriminalization and Marijuana Smoking Prevalence: Evidence from Australia".
  • Clements, K. W., Y. Lan and X. Zhao, "The Demand for Vice: Inter-Commodity Interactions with Uncertainty."
  • Zhang, X., Zhao, X. and Harris, A., “Chronic Diseases and Labour Market Participation in Australia”. Paper presented at the 2006 Australian Health Economics Conference, Perth September 2006, under review.
  • Zhang, X., Zhao, X. and Hollingsworth, B., “Dietary Habits and Self-reported Health”. Paper presented at the 2006 Australian Health Economics Conference, Perth September 2006
  • Wu, W, Harris, M. and Zhao, X., “Early Stage Occupational Assimilation of Immigrants in Australia”, paper presented at the Australian Labour Economics Workshop.
  • Polidano, C. Harris, M. and Zhao, X., “Voluntary Labour Supply and Labour Market Transition: Evidence from Australia”. Paper presented at the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, 2007.

Papers in Progress

  • Zhang, X. and Zhao, X, "Chronic Diseases, Private Health Insurance, and Health Service Utilisation in Australia: An Econometric Analysis of Visits to GPs, Specialists, Hospitals and Other Health Professionals".
  • Zhang, X., Griffiths, W.E. and Zhao, X, “Private Health Insurance and Dental Service Utilization in Australia: A Bayesian Algorithm for MVOP.
  • Ramful, P. and X. Zhao, “Marijuana Participation among Australian Youth: Surveys from Three Universities.”

Teaching

  • Second Year: ETC2410/3440, Practical Econometrics.
  • Fourth Year: ETC4410, Applied Econometrics. ETC4860, Economics and Commerce Issues Seminar.
  • Postgraduate: ETC5400, Special Topics in Econometrics

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