Biography

Welcome! I am an applied microeconomist studying topics in health, housing, and public policy. My research combines large administrative data with empirical methods in causal inference to understand how government programs and policy interventions shape individual and household outcomes.

Interests

Health economics
Public economics
Causal inference

Education

PhD in Economics, Carleton University, expected 2026
M.S. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2019
Bachelor of Economics, Henan University, July 2017

Research

Working Papers

Do Red States Build More? Gubernatorial Partisanship and Housing Outcomes (with Louis Philippe Beland). Under review at Public Choice. PDF
The Impact of Gender Based Pricing Policies on Coverage in Long Term Care Insurance Markets in the United States. Working paper. PDF
Child Benefit Programs on Parental Health and Behaviors: Evidence from the CCHS (with Louis Philippe Beland). Working paper. PDF
Comparison of Human, AI Assisted, and Quasi Automated Approaches to Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science (with Abel Brodeur et al.). Under review at PNAS. [replication game participation; contributed to revisions] PDF

Teaching

ECON 1001 Introduction to Microeconomics, 2021 Summer, 2024 Fall
ECON 1002 Introduction to Macroeconomics, 2021 Winter, 2021 Fall, 2022 Fall, 2025 Winter
ECON 2009 Managerial Economics, 2024 Fall
ECON 2220 Introductory Econometrics, 2025 Summer
ECON 2708 Applied Data Analysis, 2022 Fall, 2024 Winter
ECON 3602 International Monetary Problems, 2021 Winter
ECON 4020 Advanced Microeconomic Theory, 2022 Fall, 2023 Fall, 2025 Winter
ECON 4052 Corporate Financial Economics, 2022 Winter
ECON 5020 Microeconomic Theory Graduate, 2022 Fall, 2023 Fall
ECON 5021 Macroeconomic Theory Graduate, 2024 Winter

CV

Academic CV: PDF

Contact

Email: tonghuitiankyra@gmail.com

Office: Loeb Building B844, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

LinkedIn: LinkedIn