Research Interests
Labor Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economics of China
Recent Publications
Published Papers
Carneiro, P., Liu, K. and Salvanes, K. G. The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform, Journal of the European Economic Association vol 21(1) (2023) pp. 48–92Liu, K. Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers, Journal of Labor Economics vol 37 no. 1 (2019) pp. 139-185
Chan, M. K. and Liu, K. Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms, Quantitative Economics vol 9(2) (2018) pp. 659-706
Aaberge, R., Liu, K. and Zhu, Y. Political Uncertainty and Household Savings, Journal of Comparative Economics vol 45(1) (2017) pp. 154-170
Liu, K. Insuring Against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices, Journal of Health Economics vol 46 (2016) pp. 6-32
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
Chan, M. K., Liu, K. Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions and Child Development, (2023) CWPE2315Liu, K., Prommawin, B., Schroyen, F. Health Insurance and Agricultural Investments: Evidence from Rural Thailand, (2023) CWPE2327
Dalla-Zuanna, A., Liu, K., Salvanes, K. Pulled-in and Crowded-out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-based School Choice, (2023) CWPE2328
Bennett, P., Liu, K., Salvanes, K. The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility, (2023) CWPE2329
Chan, M., Dalla-Zuanna, A., Liu, K. Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives, (2023) CWPE2330
Recent Activities
Household Savings and Inequality: from Micro to Macro
The Janeway Institute, ESRC, The Keynes Fund and SHARE will be co-sponsoring a conference on "Household Savings and Inequality: from Micro to Macro", from 23-25th March 2023.
Event Date - Thursday 23rd March 2023 - Saturday 25th March 2023
Workers, Firms and Labour Markets Workshop
Faculty of Economics is hosting a one-day workshop on Workers, Firms and Labour Markets on Friday, 18th October 2019, from 9.30am-3.30pm in the Meade Room. The workshop is organised by Dr Noriko Amano Patino, Dr Kai Liu and Dr Weilong Zhang and the speakers include includes Eric French, Roland Rathelot, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Pierre Cahuc, and Manudeep Bhuller. You can view the programme here.
Event Date - Friday 18th October 2019
Labour Markets, Human Capital and Public Policy
Costas Meghir, Hanming Fang, Magne Mogstad, Gordon Dahl and Chris Walters will all be speaking at the Labour Markets, Human Capital and Public Policy Conference. This will be held on 9th of May 2017, between 9.00am and 5.00pm, in Winstanley theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Event Date - Tuesday 9th May 2017
Research Grants
Demand and Welfare Analysis using Micro-data (Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC))
Family Instability, Child Development and Family Policy: Theory and Evidence from an Economic Model (British Academy)
Keynes Fund Sponsored Projects
Liu, K., Risk and Return in Human Capital Investments (JHOJ)
Liu, K., Wage Dynamics and Post-Schooling Human Capital Accumulation (JHUE)
Teaching
PI Paper 1 - Lent - General Equilibrium, Externalities, Welfare
PIIA Paper 7 - Michaelmas - Labour Supply, Demand and Human Capital
PIIB Paper 7 - Topics in Public Economics
PhD Students
Supervisor
Benjapon Prommawin
PhD Title: An Essay on International Reserves Adequacy for Emerging Asian Countries
Research:
PhD Title: An Essay on International Reserves Adequacy for Emerging Asian Countries
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