Teng Wah Leo

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Teng Wah Leo

Associate Professor

Department

Campus Location

Brian Mulroney Hall Rm 3073

Email

Email

Phone

(902) 867-5449

Links

Biography

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Research

Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Economics of the Family

Publications

See a list of recent publications on Google Scholar

Health, loneliness and the ageing process in the absence of cardinal measure: Rendering intangibles tangible , The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 22, 100369. Joint with Gordon Anderson and Rui Fu.
Sufficient conditions for jth order stochastic dominance for discrete cardinal variables, and their formulae , Economics Letters, December 2021, 209, 110144. Joint with Gordon Anderson.
On the Asymptotic Distribution of (Generalized) Lorenz Transvariation Measures , Metron, 2017, 75(2), 195-213. Special Issue: Transvariation After a Hundred Years.
Quantifying The Progress of Economic and Social Justice: Charting Changes in Equality of Opportunity in the United States 1960-2000 , Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017, 18(1), 17-45. Joint with Gordon Anderson.
A Note on a Family of Criteria for Evaluating Test Statistics, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016, 45(11), 3138-3144. Joint with Gordon Anderson.
Measuring Advances in Equality of Opportunity: The Changing Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in Canada in the Last Half Century , Social Indicators Research, 2014, 119(1), 73-99. Joint with Gordon Anderson and Robert Muelhaupt.
An Empirical Examination of Matching Theories: The One Child Policy, Partner Choice and Matching Intensity in Urban China , Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41(2), 468-489. Joint with Gordon Anderson.
A Polarization-Cohesion Perspective on Cross-Country Convergence , Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17(1), 49-69. Joint with Gordon Anderson and Oliver Linton.
Distributional Overlap: Simple, Multivariate, Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests for Alienation, Convergence and General Distributional Difference Issues , Econometric Reviews, 2010, 29(3), 247-275. Joint with Gordon Anderson and Ying Ge. Online Publication Date: 7 January 2010.
Child Poverty, Generational Mobility and the One Child Policy in Urban China , Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55(s1), 607-629. Joint with Gordon Anderson.

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