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I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor and development. I received my Ph.D. in applied economics from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in 2022 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney School of Economics and the ARC Life Course Centre from 2022 to 2024. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Fulbright University Vietnam.
My research uses large-scale administrative and survey data combined with modern causal inference methods to study how labor markets, education, and household decision-making shape inequality and human capital outcomes. Current projects examine: (1) the short-run impact of international students on local labor markets and firm dynamics in the United States; (2) the effects of shifts in women’s intra-household bargaining power on children’s university enrollment in Indonesia; (3) how childcare accessibility and quality regulation shape families’ childcare choices and maternal labor supply in Australia; and (4) trade-offs in blended finance for development, particularly how guarantees are designed and governed to balance financial viability, development impact, and private capital mobilization.
I am also the translator behind the Vietnamese editions of Alvin E. Roth's Who Gets What and Why (Tri Thuc Publishing House, 2017) and David S. Evans and Richard L. Schmalensee's Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms (joint with Chi Tran; The Gioi Publishers, 2019), and the editor of the Vietnamese translation of Richard Thaler's The Winner's Curse.
You can reach me at tung.dang[at]fulbright.edu.vn
