My research interests include agricultural and resource economics, labor economics, demographic economics, and economic history. I have focused my research on inter-generational occupation choices, farm succession, rural migration, and rural mortality in the US.
Commodity Price Shocks and Rural Mortality (with Marc F. Bellemare and Joleen Hadrich)
(revision requested by the Journal of Human Resources)
Natural Disaster and Intergenerational Occupational Choice in Agriculture: Evidence from the US Dust Bowl (revision requested by the American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
Compulsory Education and Occupational Persistence in US Agriculture
Land, Loans, and Life Expectancy: The Effect of Wealth Transfers on Life Expectancy. (with Evan Robert, Henry Thomson, and Robert Schub)
Agricultural Child Labor and Education: Evidence from Boll Weevil in the US South. (with T. Terry Cheung)
The Impact of Dust Bowl Migration on Land Use Changes (with Aparna Howlader)
Lee, Brian, Liu, Jhih-Yun, and Chang, Hung-Hao (2020). ``The Choice of Marketing Channel and Farm Profitability: Empirical Evidence from Small Farmers." Agribusiness, (36) 3 : 402-421.
Liao, Pei-An, Liu, Jhih-Yun, Sun, Lih-Chyun, Chang, Hung-Hao (2020). ``Can the Adoption of Protected Cultivation Facilities Affect Farm Sustainability?" Sustainability, 12 (23), 9970.
Wang, Szu-Yung, Liu, Jhih-Yun, and Chang, Hung-Hao (2018). ``An Old Bottle with New Wine: Examining the Association between Contract Farming and Farm Income Using the Matching Frontier Approach." The Empirical Economics Letters, (17) 12 : 1507-1515.