Teng Wah Leo
Associate Professor
Department
Campus Location
Brian Mulroney Hall Rm 3073
Email
Phone
(902) 867-5449
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.