Dr Nancy Kong
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Biography
BackgroundNancy Kong is a research fellow at the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology, QUT. She completed her PhD in economics in 2017 at Dalhousie University, Canada, and her fields of research are health economics, labour economics, and applied econometrics. Before joining QUT, Nancy Kong was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Research Interests
- Empirical microeconomics
- Human capital formation
- Intergenerational transmission
- Inequality and vulnerable groups
- Economics of China
Working papers
- Fast Food Restaurants Expansion and Children's Obesity in China (with Weina Zhou)
- Parental Economic Insecurity and Children's Non-Cognitive Skills: A Panel Study of 2-to-5 Year-Olds in Canada (with Shelley Phipps)
- Gender Bias Within Chinese Families—Who Eats First in Tough Times? (with Lars Osberg)
Research in progress
- Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure: Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents (with Uwe Dulleck, Adam Jaffe, Shupeng Sun, Sowmya Vajjala)
- The Determinants of Sick Leave: Evidence From Australia (with David Rowell and Peter Zweifel)
- Financial Stress During Pregnancy—The Short and Long-Term Effects on Children’s Health and Labour Market Outcomes (with Brenda Gannon, Alexandra Clavarino, Jake Najman)
Media coverage
Personal details
Positions
- Visiting Fellow
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Research field
Econometrics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD in Economics (Dalhousie University Canada)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Health Economic Society 2017-
American Economics Association 2016-
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth 2015-
Western Economic Association International 2015-
Canadian Economics Association 2012-
Canadian Women Economists Network 2012-
Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network 2012-
Atlantic Canada Economics Association 2011-
Publications
- Kong, N., Osberg, L. & Zhou, W. (2019). The shattered 'Iron Rice Bowl': Intergenerational effects of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise reform. Journal of Health Economics, 67, 1–16. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131393
QUT ePrints
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Supervision
Current supervisions
- An Econometric Instrument derived from an Analysis of the Language used in Patent Claims
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Uwe Dulleck