Contact information
tclai@fcu.edu.tw
+886-4-24517250 ext. 4477
Department of Economics
​Feng Chia University
No. 100, Wenhwa Road
Seatwen, Taichung, Taiwan

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. My research interests lie in the field of microeconometrics, with particular emphasis on nonparametric estimation and inference for causal effects and income mobility. I received my PhD from National Taiwan University under the supervision of Professor Yu-Chin Hsu and Professor ​Chung-Ming Kuan.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• "Nonparametric Estimation of Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects Based on Inverse Probability Weighting," Journal of Econometric Methods, forthcoming (with Yu-Chin Hsu and Martin Huber) [pdf]

Working Papers

• "Estimation and Inference for Counterfactual Treatment Effects," (with Yu-Chin Hsu and  Robert P. Lieli) [pdf]                                                                                                                    A previous version was circulated under the title "Forecasting Treatment Effects."
• "Quantile Structural Treatment Effect: Application to Smoking Wage Penalty and its Determinants," (with Yu-Chin Hsu and Kamhon Kan) [pdf]
• "Estimation and Inference for Distribution Functions and Quantile Functions in Endogenous Treatment Effect Models," (with Yu-Chin Hsu and Robert P. Lieli) [pdf]

Work in Progress

• "A Double Local Polynomial Method for Conditional Density Estimation," (with Chung-Ming Kuan)
• "Testing Treatment Effect Monotonicity," (with Yu-Chin Hsu and Jen-Che Liao)