Pak Hung LAM 林柏熊

Pak Hung Lam, Patrick

Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

Hi, Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University. My research focuses on agricultural, development, environmental, and health economics. I am also interested in industrial policies and climate change. Reach me at pakhunglam@ntu.edu.tw.

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, 2025 - Present
- Visiting Assistant Professor (long term), Research Center for Policy Design, Department of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, from 2025 (expected)
Postdoctoral Associate, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University, 2023 - 2025
Postgraduate Fellow, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University, 2023

Education

Ph.D. (Social Science), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019 - 2023
M.A. (Agricultural Economics), National Taiwan University, 2014 - 2016
B.Soc.Sc. (Economics), Chinese University of Hong Kong , 2009 - 2014

Recent Works

Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization.
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of International Economics.
with Yatang Lin, Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang

Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing Dynasty.
Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 1-38.
with Yu Bai and Yanjun Li

Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.
JAMA Network Open, 6(10), 2023.
with Emma Zang, Dieyi Chen, Riyang Liu, Kai Chen. Link
• Selected Media Coverage: World Economic Forum