Always clear, engaging, and insightful.
Inspires curiosity and a love for knowledge.
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Creates a safe space for learning and growth.
Great Professor!
Dr. Haishan Yuan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2014. Yuan's research focuses on political economy, development economics, public economics, and applied microeconometrics. He also serves as a Research Affiliate at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Australian National University. Throughout his career, he has supervised multiple PhD students, including principal advisor for theses on empirical microeconomics and associate advisor for works on applied microeconomics, labor economics, and development economics. Yuan has obtained significant research funding, including an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant for "Information Acquisition and Voting Behaviour" from 2019 to 2025 and a University of Queensland Early Career Researcher grant for "Legislating in Darkness: News, Information, and Representation" in 2018.
Haishan Yuan has published extensively in top-tier journals, with his work cited 194 times according to Google Scholar. Notable publications include "Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics" (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, with Kaplan and Spenkuch), "Fishing Bans in Chinese Waters: Effectiveness and Spillovers" (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025), "Distributive Implications for Governing Party Constituencies: Evidence from Bangladesh" (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2026, with Hahn, Nuzhat, and Yang), "Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio" (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, with Kaplan), "When Does Daylight Saving Time Save Electricity? Weather and Air-Conditioning" (Energy Economics, 2021, with Guven, Zhang, and Aksakalli), "Interest Arbitrage under Capital Controls: Evidence from Reported Entrepôt Trades" (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021, with Hu), "How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California" (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, with Hu and Megalokonomou), "Trade to Aid: EU's Temporary Tariff Waivers for Flood-Hit Pakistan" (Journal of Development Economics, 2017, with Cheong and Kwak), "Shock and Roam: Migratory Responses to Natural Disasters" (Economics Letters, 2016, with Zhu), and "Court-Ordered Campaign Finance Deregulation and Stock Value of Contributors" (American Law and Economics Review, 2015). His contributions advance understanding of policy impacts, electoral dynamics, environmental regulations, and economic behaviors in diverse contexts.