SHEN Menghan
Associate Professor
Department of Public Administration
Email: shenmh8@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Education
Harvard University, Master of Education
Columbia University, PhD
Research Areas
Health Economics, Economics of Education, Labor Economics
Previous Employment
Assistant Professor, Waseda University, Japan, 2016-2018
Publications (First-author)
1. How I met your mother: the effect of school desegregation on birthoutcomes, Economics of Education Review, 2018
2. The intergenerational political influence on labor market, Journal of Developing Studies, 2018
3. The effect of school desegregation on infant health, Economics and Human Biology, 2018
4. The association between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Black women, Plos One, 2018
5. Differences in Cesarean section rates by fetal sex among Chinese women in the United States: Does Chinese culture play a role?, Economics and Human Biology, 2020
6. Incentives to use primary care and their impact on healthcare utilization: Evidence using a public health insurance dataset in China, Social Science and Medicine, 2020
7. Comparison of health care utilization among users of public and private community health centres in urban China, Family Practice, 2020
8. The Association Between an Increased Reimbursement Cap for Chronic Disease Coverage and Healthcare Utilization in China: An Interrupted Time Series Study, Health Policy and Planning, 2020
9. Hukou-based rural-urban disparities in maternal health service utilization and delivery modes in two Chinese cities in Guangdong Province, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
10. Comparison of inpatient spending and readmission rates for patients treated by male versus female physicians in China: An observational study." Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2021 (SSCI Q3)
11. Estimates of inpatient admission rates and associated costs for infants before and after China’s universal two-child policy, BMC Health Service Research, 2021
12. The association of attending physicians’ publications and patients’ readmission rates: evidence from tertiary hospitals in China, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Publications in Chinese:
1. 医疗保险干预能否缓解三级医院的“虹吸效应”?——基于某大城市的实证研究.公共行政评论，2021.
-人大复印报刊资料《社会保障制度》(全文转载)
2. 中国大型城市流动儿童医疗保险参保问题研究——基于断点回归与双重差分模型的实证分析. 社会保障评论，2022
3. 信息干预对于普惠型补充医疗保险需求的影响：来自随机实验的证据. 保险研究，2022
Working Paper:
1. Information intervention and social health insurance for migrant children: evidence from randomized control trial, under review
2. Hospitals’ response to changes in the prospective payment system: Evidence from China, under submission
3. Should patients travel out-of-town?
4. Return to programming skills: evidence from resume auditing study
5. Take up of social pension of self-employed: an experimental study in China
6. Aging and health expenditure
Grant：
1. Social Science 国家社科基金青年项目，2019
2. 广东省自然科学基金面上项目，2022
3. 高校基本科研业务费“青年拔尖科研人才培育项目”，2022
4. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, 2016-2018;
5. Waseda Grants for Special Research Projects, 2016
6. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers, 2016 (declined)
Teaching Assistant：
1. Evaluating Educational Privatization and School Choice, Teachers College, Spring 2014
2. Empirical Methods II, Harvard Kennedy School, Spring 2011
3. Intermediate Macroeconomics, Haverford College, Fall 2009
4. Introduction to Economics, Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2008 to Spring 2009
Reviewer：
Health Affairs; Journal of Human Resource; Journal of Population Economics; Economics and Human Biology; Japan Economic Review; Jama Network Open; BMJ Open; Chinese Public Administration Review;
