Publications

Journal articles

• Gender norms and solar panel energy adoption in Australia: Evidence from a natural experiment (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth). Energy Economics, 2025.

• Does global warming worsen poverty and inequality? An updated review (with Hai-Anh H. Dang and Stephane Hallegatte). Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024.

• From disastrous heat waves to extreme rains: Effects of weather shocks on entrepreneurship (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi, and Johan Wiklund). Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2024, 21.

• The links between parental smoking and childhood obesity: data of the longitudinal study of Australian children (with Preety Srivastava, Karen T. Hallam, Leila Karimi, and Bruce Hollingsworth). BMC Public Health, 2024, 24(68).

• Does the power of the king stop at the village gate? Embeddedness and provincial development in Vietnam (with Simon Feeny). Economics & Politics, 2023.

• Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey (with Hai-Anh H. Dang and Paolo Verme). Health Economics, 2023, 32(12), 2819-2835.

• The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia (with Mark Wooden and Irma Mooi-Reci). Social Forces,  2023, 102(1), 330-352. [Media: The Conversation]

• Crime, Community Social Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian Communities (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Mathew Hayward, and Russell Smyth). Journal of Business Venturing, 2023, 38(2): 106291.

• Crime, Weather and Climate Change in Australia (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth). Economic Record, 2023, 99(324), 84-107.

• The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions (with Irma Mooi-Reci, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, and Mark Wooden). Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 48: 101214.

• Negative life events and entrepreneurship (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth). Journal of Business Research, 2023, 155: 113443.

• Temperature shocks and gambling (with Samuelson Appau, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, and Lisa Farrell). Energy Economics, 2022, 115: 106406.

• Energy poverty, temperature and climate change (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth). Energy Economics, 2022, 114: 106306.

• Local crime, house prices and fertility (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth, and Siew Ling Yew). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200: 312-331.

• The intergenerational impacts ofWar: Bombings and child labour in Vietnam (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth). Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58(11): 2290-2306.

• The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam (with Hai-Anh H. Dang). Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58(10): 1917-1933. 

• The Effect of Lockdowns on Mental Health: Evidence From a Natural Experiment Analysing an Australian Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey (with Peter Butterworth, Stefanie Schurer, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, and Mark Wooden). Lancet Public Health, 2022, 7(5): E427-E436.

• Effects of prenatal exposure to abnormal rainfall on cognitive development in Vietnam (with Nobuaki Yamashita). Population and Environment, 2022, 43(3): 346-366.

• Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam (with Simon Feeny and Alberto Posso). European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 72: 102097.

• The long-term impact of the Vietnam War on agricultural productivity (with Samuelson Appau; Sefa Awaworyi Churchill; and Russell Smyth). World Development, 2021, 146: 105613.

• Temperature  Shocks  and  Energy  Poverty: Findings from Vietnam (with Simon Feeny and Anna Zhu). Energy Economics, 2021, 99: 105310.

• Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-national Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences (with Hai-Anh H. Dang). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105: 102401.

• The Effect of Parental Smoking on Children's Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills (with Preety Srivastava). Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41: 100978. [Media: The Conversation]

• Early Life Exposure to Rainfall Shocks and Gender Gaps in Employment: Findings from Vietnam (with Simon Feeny, Ankita Mishra, Longfeng Ye, and Anna Zhu). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 183: 533-554.

• Early Life Shocks and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Vietnam War (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi, and Russell Smyth). Journal of Business Research, 2021, 124: 506-518.

• Rainfall Shocks and Child Health: The Role of Parental Mental Health (with Simon Feeny and Alberto Posso). Climate & Development, 2021, 13(1): 34-48.

• The Impact of Natural Disasters on Migration: Findings from Vietnam (with Simon Feeny and Alberto Posso). Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87(3): 479-510.

• Detecting Disasters and Disaster Recovery in Southeast Asia: Findings from Space (with Simon Feeny and Ashton de Silva). Natural Hazards Review, 2021, 23(2): 04021065.

• Household expenditure and child health in Vietnam: analysis of longitudinal data (with Preety Srivastava and Sarah Brown). Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 88(3): 351-377.

• Mental health impacts of child labour: Evidence from Vietnam and India. Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56(12): 2251-2265.

• Child labor and rainfall deviation: Panel data evidence from rural Vietnam (with Simon Feeny and Alberto Posso). Developing Economies, 2020, 58(1): 63-76.

• Financial shocks and child marriage: Evidence from India and Vietnam (with Quanda Zhang). Empirical Economics, 2020, 61: 1617-1639.

• The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: Findings from Households in Vietnam. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2018, 71: 897-921.

Book chapter/Report

• The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey: Selected Findings from Waves 1 to 20 (with Roger Wilkins, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Ferdi Botha, and Mark Wooden). Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2022.

• The impact of natural disasters on agriculture: Evidence from Vietnam (with Simon Feeny and Alberto Posso). Economic Effects of Natural Disasters. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2020.