Haifang
HUANG’s Homepage
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics; University of Alberta
Office: 9-14 HM Tory Bldg
Email: haifang.huang@ualberta.ca
CV [PDF]
Research
Interests
Macroeconomics, Urban Economics, Housing economics,
Well-being
Publications:
Journal Articles
“Empirical linkages between good governance
and national well-being," John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover
and Shun Wang (2018), Journal of
Comparative Economics, Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 1332-1346. [Link]
“Do urban casinos affect nearby neighbourhoods?
Evidence from Canada," Huang, H., Humphreys, B. R., and Zhou, L. (2018). Papers in Regional Science, Volume97,
Issue3, Pages 757-784. [Link]
“How Did
Exchange Rates Affect Employment in US Cities?” Haifang Huang and Yao Tang
(2016). Contemporary Economic Policy,
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 678–697. [Link]
“From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch:
Evidence from Small Business Loans,” Haifang Huang and Eric Stephens (2015), Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume
48, Issue 3, pages 853–880, August 2015 [Link]
“The Effects of
Exchange Rates on Employment in Canada,” Huang, Haifang & Pang, Ke & Tang, Yao (2014), Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques,
Volume 40, Number 4, December / décembre 2014, pp.
339-352. [Link]
“New measures of the costs of unemployment:
Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans,” John F.
Helliwell and Haifang Huang (2014), Economic
Inquiry, volume 52, issue 4, pages 1485–1502 [Link]
“New
Sports Facilities and Residential Housing Demand,” Haifang Huang and
Brad Humphreys (2014), Journal of Regional Science,
vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 629–663
[Link]
“Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real
and On-line Friends” John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang (2013). PLOS ONE, volume 8, issue 9, e72754,
pages 1-17 [Link]
“Social
Capital and Well-Being in Times of Crisis,” John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang
and Shun Wang (2013), Journal of
Happiness Studies, May 2013, pages 1-18 [Link]
“Sports
Participation and Happiness: Evidence from U.S. Micro Data,” Haifang Huang and
Brad Humphreys (2012),
Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 33(4), pages 776-793 [Link]
“Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle between
2000 and 2009,” Haifang Huang and Yao Tang (2012), Journal of Urban Economics, vol.
71(1), pages 93–99 [Link]
“Well-being and Trust in the Workplace,” John F. Helliwell and Haifang
Huang (2011), Journal of Happiness
Studies, vol. 12(5), pages 747-767 [Link]
"How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the
Workplace," John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang (2010), Industrial and Labor
Relation Review, vol.
63(2), pages 205-227. [Link]
"How's Your Government? International
Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being," John F. Helliwell and
Haifang Huang (2008), British Journal of Political Science, vol. 38(4),
pages 595-619. [Link]
Publications:
Short notes
“Dropping the
Geographic-Constraints Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox,”
Haifang Huang and Yao Tang (2011), Econ
Journal Watch, vol. 8(1), pages 28-32. [Link]
Publications:
Chapters in books
“World happiness, trust and deaths under
COVID-19,” JF Helliwell, H Huang, S Wang, M Norton, Chapter 2 in John
Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang, eds. 2021 (pp. 13- 57). New York:
Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
“Happiness and the Quality of
Government", (forthcoming), John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun
Wang, in The Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government, edited by Andreas Bågenholm, Monika Bauhr, Marcia
Grimes, and Bo Rothstein. Oxford University Press.
“Social Environments For World
Happiness," JF Helliwell, H Huang, S Wang, M Norton. Chapter 2 in
Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2020 (pp. 12- 45).
World Happiness Report 2018. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions
Network.
“Happiness at Different Ages: The Social
Context Matters," Helliwell, John, Huang, Haifang, Norton, Max, &
Wang, Shun (2019). Mariano Rojas (Ed.). The
Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding
of Well-Being and Progress (pp. 457-483). Springer Nature Switzerland AG:
Springer International Publishing.
“Changing World Happiness" John F
Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang, Hugh Shiplett, Chapter 2 in Helliwell,
John F., Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2019. World Happiness Report 2019 (pp. 12-45). New York: Sustainable
Development Solutions Network.
“Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being," Helliwell, John, Aknin, Lara, Shiplett, Hugh, Huang, Haifang, & Wang,
Shun (2018). Diener, E. , Oishi, S., & Tay, L. (Eds.). Handbook of well-being (pp. 567-582). Salt Lake City, UT: DEF
Publishers.
“International migration and world
happiness" John F Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang, Hugh Shiplett,
Chapter 2 in Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2018
(pp. 12- 43). World Happiness Report 2018.
New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
“The
Social Foundations of World Happiness," 2017, John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang
and Shun Wang, Chapter 2 in Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, and Jeffrey
Sachs, eds. 2017. World Happiness Report
2017. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network [link].
“New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being", 2017, John F. Helliwell,
Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang, in The
Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust, Edited by Eric M. Uslaner [Link].
“The Distribution of World Happiness," 2016, John F. Helliwell,
Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Chapter 2 in Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard,
and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2016. World
Happiness Report 2016 Update. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions
Network [link].
“The Geography of World Happiness," 2015, John F. Helliwell,
Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Chapter 2 in Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard,
and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2015. World
Happiness Report 2015. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network
[Link].
“Well-Being
and the Workplace: What Roles for Unions and Gender?" John F. Helliwell
and Haifang Huang (2011). Chapter 7 in Randall Morck eds. Re-Creating Canada: Essays In Honour Of Paul
Weiler (2011, Queen's Policy Studies Series #64, McGill-Queen's University
Press).
“International evidence on the social context of well-being,” John F.
Helliwell, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Anthony Harris and Haifang Huang
(2010), in Diener, Helliwell and Kahneman eds. International Differences in Well-Being (2010, Oxford University
Press). [Link to a short version
on vox]
“International differences in the determinants of life
satisfaction," JF Helliwell, H Huang, A Harris in Bhaskar Dutta, Tridip Ray, and E Somanathan eds. New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics (2009, World
Scientific), pages 3-40.
“Are Trust and
Social Capital Neglected Workplace Investments,” John F. Helliwell, Haifang
Huang and Robert D. Putnam (2008), in Bartkus, Viva and Davis, James, eds. Social Capital Reaching Out, Reaching In (2008, Cheltenham, UK: Edward
Elgar).
Data for “Residential Land Use Regulation and the
US Housing Price Cycle between 2000 and 2009,” Haifang Huang and Yao Tang (Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, link).
Here are the data used for the regressions in the paper (city level and metro level). We Are Not the Original Data Source!
The samples in our regressions include cities and MSAs that overlap multiple
sets of publicly available data on housing supply, housing prices and other
information. If you would like to use those data, please download them from
their original sources. Such datasets include, but are not limited to, the
Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index from Gyourko,
Saiz and Summers (Urban Studies, 2008) available on Professor
Gyourko’s website, and the proportion of
undevelopable land that is from the Table 1 of Saiz
(QJE, forthcoming, draft January 5, 2010). Some of the data underlying the
two state-level indexes within the Wharton land regulation data, namely the
“State Political Involvement Index” and the “State Court Involvement Index,” is
from Foster
and Summers (2005). The Zillow Home Value Index by cities was downloaded
from the Real Estate Market Reports
- Zillow Local Info.
Link to
the Economics Department, University of Alberta