Haifang HUANG’s Homepage
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics; University of Alberta
Office: 9-14 HM Tory Bldg
Email: haifang dot huang at ualberta dot ca
CV [PDF]
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Housing economics, Well-being
Working papers
“Do New Sports
Facilities Revitalize Urban Neighborhoods? Evidence from Residential Mortgage
Applications,” March 2012. Haifang
Huang and Brad Humphreys,
in UofA Economics Working Paper Series [Link].
“From Housing
Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Business Loans,” October 2011. Haifang Huang and
Eric Stephens, in UofA Economics Working Paper Series
[Link].
“New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the
subjective well-being of 2.3 million Americans,” February, 2011. John F. Helliwell and Haifang
Huang. in NBER Working Paper Series [Link] and UofA
Economics Working Paper Series [Link].
“Constructing Consumer Sentiment Index for
U.S. Using Internet Search Patterns,” October 2009, Nicolas Della Penna and Haifang Huang, in UofA Economics Working Paper Series. [Link]
Publications: Journal Articles
“Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from U.S.
Micro Data,” (forthcoming) Haifang Huang and Brad
Humphreys, Journal of Economic Psychology [Link to working
paper]
“Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle between
2000 and 2009,” (2012), Haifang Huang and Yao Tang, Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, Volume 71(1), pages 93–99 [Link]
“Well-being and Trust in the Workplace,” John F. Helliwell
and Haifang Huang, Journal of Happiness Studies, 2011, volume 12(5), 747-767 [Link]
"How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the
Workplace," John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang, Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2009, vol. 63(2), page 205-227. [Link]
"How's
Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and
Well-Being," John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang, British Journal of Political Science,
2008, vol. 38(4), page 595-619. [Link]
Publications: Short notes
“Dropping the Geographic-Constraints
Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox,” Haifang
Huang and Yao Tang. Econ Journal Watch,
Volume 8, Number 1, January 2011, pp 28-32. [Link]
Publications: Chapters in books
“Well-Being and the Workplace: What Roles for Unions and Gender?"
John F. Helliwell and Haifang
Huang. 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,
in Diener, Helliwell and Kahneman eds. International Differences in Well-Being
(2010, Oxford University Press).
[Link: a short
version on vox; Link to the NBER version]
“Are Trust and Social Capital Neglected
Workplace Investments,” John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Robert D. Putnam, in Bartkus,
Viva and Davis, James, eds. Social
Capital Reaching Out, Reaching In (2008,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar). [PDF]
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 data used 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.
Teaching: see the
faculty webpage
Link to the Economics Department, University of Alberta