Shin-Yi Chou

Shin-Yi Chou is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research areas are health economics and applied econometrics. Portions of her work have been published in the Journal of Health Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Her recent research interests include health insurance and child health, parental education and child health, hospital competition and consumer welfare.

Education

• National Taiwan University, B.A.
• Duke University, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Quality and cost of health care 
• Economic analysis of obesity 
• Health insurance education and behavior/health outcomes

• Dapeng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and David Peng, “Impacts of Hospital Data Breach on the Healthcare Quality”, Health Services Research, forthcoming.
• Erkmen G. Aslim, Shin-Yi Chou, Kuhelika De “Business Cycles and Healthcare Employment”, Health Economics, forthcoming.
• Wei Fu, Shin-Yi Chou, and Li-San Wang “A Single Dose For Me, A Wealth of Protection For Us: The Public Health Cost of Individualism in the Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccine ”, Social Science and Medicine, forthcoming.
• Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsienming Lien, and Jin-Tan Liu, “The Long-Term Health Effects of Early-Life Malaria Exposure: Evidence from Taiwan’s Malaria Eradication in the 1950s”, American Journal of Health Economics, 10(1): 30-67, 2024.
• Chia-lun Liu, Hui Wang, Jung-Ying Tzeng, Kaylyn Clark, Li-San Wang, Pei-Chuan Ho, Shin-Yi Chou, Wan-Ping Lee and Wei Fu “The Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease through Multi-Trait Genetic Modeling”, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15, 2023.
• Chia-Lun Liu, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Mary Beth Deily, “Tap Water Access in Early Childhood and Long-Term Educational Performance”, Journal of Human Capital, 17(3): 349- 386, 2023.
• Pavel P. Kuksa, Chia-Lun Liu, Wei Fu, Liming Qu, Yi Zhao, Zivadin Katanic, Amanda B Kuzma, Pei-Chuan Ho, Kai-Teh Tzeng, Otto Valladares, Shin-Yi Chou, Adam C Naj, Ger- ard D Schellenberg, Li-San Wang, and Yuk Yee Leung, “Alzheimer’s Disease Variant Portal (ADVP): A Catalog of Genetic Findings for Alzheimer’s Disease”, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 86(1): 461-477, 2022.
• Xuan Li, Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou, and Mary Beth Deily, “Comparing the Impact of Online Ratings and Report Cards on Patient Choice of Cardiac Surgeon: Large Observational Study”, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(10):e28098, 2021.
• Sabrina Terrizzi, Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Hsienming Lien, “The Effect of Sibship Size on Educational Attainment of the First Born: Evidence from Three Decennial Censuses of Taiwan”, Empirical Economics, 61(4): 2173-2204, 2021.
• Wei Fu, Pei-Chuan Ho, Chia-Lun Liu, Kai-Teh Tzeng, Nawar Nayeem, Jonni S. Moore, Li-San Wang, Shin-Yi Chou, “Reconcile the Debate Over Protective Effects of BCG Vaccine Against COVID-19”, Scientific Reports, 11, 2021.
• Cheng Chen, Wangyang Zhao, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsien-Ming Lien, “The Effect of Family Size on Parents’ Labor Supply and Occupational Prestige: Evidence from Taiwan and Mainland China”, China Economic Review, 66, 2021.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Mary Beth Deily, Jim Dearden and Hsienming Lien, “Provider Responses to a Global Budget System: The Case of Drug Expenditures in Taiwan Hospitals”, Health Economics, 29(10): 1099-1323, 2020.
• Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou, and Ernest Lai, “Confirmatory Bias in Health Decisions: Evidence from the MMR-Autism Controversy”, Journal of Health Economics, 70, 2020.
• Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Cheng Wang, and Wangyang Zhao, “The Effect of the Second Child on the Nutrition Intakes and the Anthropometric Outcomes of the First Child: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy”, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 20(1), 2020.
• Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Lea Gimenez, and Jin-Tan Liu, “The Quantity of Education and Preference for Sons: Evidence from Taiwan’s Compulsory Education Reform”, China Economic Review, 59, 2020.
• Ya Chen, Justin Wang, Joe Zhu, David Sherman and Shin-Yi Chou, “How the Great Recession Affects Performance: A Case of Pennsylvania Hospitals using DEA”, Annals of Operations Research, 278: 77-99, 2019.
• Chad Meyerhoefer, Susan A. Sheer, Mary E. Deily, Shin-Yi Chou, Xiaohui Guo, Jie Chen, Michael Sheinberg and Donald Levick, “Provider and Patient Satisfaction with the Integration of Ambulatory and Hospital EHR Systems”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(8): 1054-1063, 2018.
• Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou, Mary Beth Deily and Jin-Tan Liu, “Gender Inequality, Economic Growth, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Adverse Health Consequences at Birth”, Social Science & Medicine, 200: 174-181, 2018.
• Katia Ponomareva, Shin-Yi Chou and Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, “Social and Economic Impacts of International Marriages in Europe”, Journal of Labor Research, 39: 259-276, 2018.
• Lizhong Peng, Chad Meyerhoefer and Shin-Yi Chou, “The Health Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development in Pennsylvania”, Health Economics, 27(6): 956-983, 2018.
• Muzhe Yang and Shin-Yi Chou , “The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Fetal Health: Evidence from the Shutdown of a Coal-Fired Power Plant Located Upwind of New Jersey”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 90: 269-293, 2018.
• Muzhe Yang, Rhea Bhatta, Shin-Yi Chou and Cheng-I Hsieh, “The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Power Plant Emissions on Birth Weight: Evidence from a Pennsylvania Power Plant Located Upwind of New Jersey”, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 36(3): 557-583, 2017.
• Tianyan Hu, Sandra L. Decker and Shin-Yi Chou, “The Impact of Health Insurance Expansion on Physician Treatment Choice: Medicare Part D and Physician Prescribing”, International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 17(3): 333-358, 2017.
• Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou, Lea Gimenez Duarte and Jin-Tan Liu, “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Birth Weight and Intrauterine Growth Restriction: A Large Cross- generational Cohort Study in Taiwan,” Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(7): 1512-1521, 2017
• Chad D. Meyerhoefer, Susan A. Sheer, Mary E. Deily, Shin-Yi Chou, Lizhong Peng, Tianyan Hu, Marion Nihen, Michael Sheinberg, Donald Levick, “A Mixed Methods Study of Clinical Information Availability in Obstetric Triage and Prenatal Offices”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 24(e1): e87-e94, 2017.
• Zong-Xian Xie, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu, “The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Birth Weight: Evidence from Large Samples of Siblings and Twins in Taiwan”, Health Economics, 26: 910-921, 2017.
• Tianyan Hu, Sandra L. Decker and Shin-Yi Chou, “Medicaid Pay-For-Performance Programs and Childhood Immunization Status”, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 50(5 Suppl 1): S51-7, 2016.
• Charles L. Baum and Shin-Yi Chou, “Why Has the Prevalence of Obesity Doubled?”, Review of Economics of the Household, 14(2): 251-267, 2016.
• Chad D. Meyerhoefer, Mary E. Deily, Sue Sherer, Shin-Yi Chou, Lizhong Peng, Michael Sheinberg and Donald Levick, “The Consequences of Electronic Health Record Adoption for Physician Productivity and Birth Outcomes”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 69(4): 860-889, 2016.
• Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Robert J. Thornton, “The Effect of Household Technology on Weight and Health Outcomes among Chinese Adults: Evidence from China’s Home Appliances Going to the Countryside Policy”, Journal of Human Capital, 9(3): 364-401, 2015.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Echu Liu, Min-Jen Lin, and Jin-Tian Liu “Better Peers, Better Scores? A Study of Twin Junior High School Graduates in Taiwan”, Applied Economics, 47(32): 3462- 3481, 2015.
• Hsin-Ling Hsieh, Echu Liu, Hsien-Ming Lien and Shin-Yi Chou, “Strengthening or Weakening? The Impact of Universal Health insurance on Intergenerational Coresidence in Taiwan”, Demography, 52(3): 883-904, 2015.
• Tianyan Hu, Shin-Yi Chou and Mary E. Daily “Pregnancy Outcomes for Medicaid Patients in Mandatory Managed Care: The Pennsylvania HealthChoices Program”, Southern Economic Journal, 82(1): 100-121, 2015.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Jin-Tan Liu, “National Health Insurance and Child Health: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan”, Journal of Development Economics, 111: 75-91, 2014.
• Jing-Hua Zhang, Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily and Hsien-Ming Lien, “Hospital Ownership and Drug Utilization under a Global Budget: A Quantile Regression Analysis”, International Health, 6(1): 62-69, 2014.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily, Suhui Li and Yi Lu, “Competition and the Impact of Online Hospital Report Cards”, Journal of Health Economics, 34(2): 42-58, 2014.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily and Suhui Li, “Travel Distance and Health Outcomes for Scheduled Surgery”, Medical Care, 52(3): 250-257, 2014.
• Muzhe Yang, Hsien-Ming Lien and Shin-Yi Chou, “Is There a Physician Peer Effect? Evidence from New Drug Prescriptions”, Economic Inquiry, 52(1): 116-137, 2014.
• Juan Du, Justin Wang, Yao Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Joe Zhu, “Incorporating Health Outcomes in Pennsylvania Hospital Efficiency: An Additive Super-efficiency DEA Approach”, Annals of Operations Research, 221: 161-172, 2014
• Lea Gimenezduarte, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Jin-Long Liu, “Parental Loss and Children’s Wellbeing”, Journal of Human Resources, 48(4): 1035-1071, 2013.
• Mary E. Deily, Tianyan Hu, Sabrina Terrizzi, Shin-Yi Chou and Chad D. Meyerhoefer “The Impact of Health Information Technology Adoption by Outpatient Facilities on Pregnancy Outcomes”, Health Services Research, 48(1), 70-94, 2013.
• Dana Costea, Franklin Carter, Shin-Yi Chou and Art King “Is Advertising Effective or Not? Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market”, NMIMS Management Review, 22(October-November), 9-28, 2012.
• Justin Wang, Jason Hockenberry and Shin-Yi Chou and Muzhe Yang, “Do Bad Report Cards Have Consequences? How Publicly Reported Provider Quality Information Impacts the CABG Market in Pennsylvania”, Journal of Health Economics, 30(2), 392-407, 2011.
• Jason Hockenberry, Hsien-Ming Lien and Shin-Yi Chou, “Surgeon and Hospital Volume as a Quality Indicators for CABG in Taiwan: Examining Hazard to Mortality and Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity”, Health Services Research, 45(5p1), 1168-1187, 2010.
• Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu, “The Role of Hospital Competition on Treatment Cost and Outcome: Evidence from Stroke Treatment in Taiwan”, Economic Inquiry, 48(3), 668-689, 2010.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, “Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(1), 33-61, 2010.
• Wehn-Jyuan Tsai, Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Robert Thornton, “Does Educational Expansion Encourage Female Workforce Participation? A Study of the 1968 Reform in Taiwan”, Economics of Education Review, 28(6), 750-758, 2009.
• Echu Liu, Cheng Hsiao, Tomoya Matusmoto and Shin-Yi Chou, “Maternal Full-Time Employment and Overweight Children: Parametric, Semi-Parametric, and Non-Parametric Assessment”. Journal of Econometrics, 152(1), 61-69, 2009.
• Jason Hockenberry, Hsien-Ming Lien and Shin-Yi Chou, “The Impact of Task Repetition and Temporal Breaks in Production on Human Capital and Productivity”, Journal of Human Capital, 2(3), 303-335, 2008.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Inas Rashad and Michael Grossman, “Fast Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity”, Journal of Law and Economics, 51(4), 599-618, 2008.
• Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu, “Hospital Ownership and Performance: Evidence from Stroke and Cardiac Treatment in Taiwan,”’ Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1208-1223, 2008.
• Ming-Jen Lin, Jin-Tan Liu and Shin-Yi Chou, “As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can ’Good’ Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note, Demography, 44(2), 335-343, 2007.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammit, “Households’ Precautionary Behaviors - The Effects of the Introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan,” Review of Economics of the Household, 4(4), 395-421, 2006.
• Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Long Liu, “Asymmetries in Progression in Higher Education in Taiwan: Parental Education and Income Effects,” Economics of Education Review, 25(6), 647-658, 2006.
• Inas Rashad, Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou, “The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults,” Eastern Economic Journal, 32(1), 133- 148, 2006.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer, “Reply to Jonathan Gruber and Michael Frakes,” Journal of Health Economics, 25(2), 389-393, 2006.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer, “An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System,” Journal of Health Economics, 23(3), 565-587, 2004.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Cliff J. Huang, “Health Insurance and Precautionary Savings Over the Life Cycle – Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Estimation,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19(3), 295-322, 2004.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammitt, “National Health Insurance and Technology Adoption – Evidence from Taiwan,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 22(1), 26-38, 2004.
• Gabriel Picone, R. Mark Wilson and Shin-Yi Chou, “Analysis of Hospital Length of Stay and Discharge Destination Using Hazard Functions with Unmeasured Heterogeneity,” Health Economics, 12, 1021-1034, 2003.
• Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and James K. Hammitt, “National Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving - Evidence from Taiwan,” Journal of Public Economics, 87(9-10), 1837-1894, 2003.
• Gabriel A. Picone, Frank A. Sloan, Shin-Yi Chou and Donald H. Taylor, Jr., “Is Medical Care Productive? Evidence from Medicare,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(1), 51-62, 2003.
• Gabriel A. Picone, Shin-Yi Chou and Frank A. Sloan, “Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and Medicare?” Rand Journal of Economics, 33(3), 507-523, 2002.
• Shin-Yi Chou, “Asymmetric Information, Ownership and Quality of Care: An Empirical Analysis of Nursing Homes,” Journal of Health Economics, 21(2), 293-311, 2002.
• Frank A. Sloan, Gabriel A. Picone, Donald H. Taylor, Jr. and Shin-Yi Chou, “Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime’s Worth of Difference?” Journal of Health Economics, 20(1), 1-21, 2001.
• Jin-Long Liu, Jin-Tan Liu, James K. Hammitt and Shin-Yi Chou, “The Price Elasticity of Opium in Taiwan, 1914 – 1942,” Journal of Health Economics, 18(6), 795-810, 1999.