
Tinh DoanAustralian National University | ANU
Tinh Doan
PhD in Applied Economics
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Introduction
Tinh Doan currently works at Research School of Population Health, Australian National University. He is working on market work, family work, and health behaviour; gender, health, economic and health inequality.
Additional affiliations
August 2024 - March 2025
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Position
- Assistant Director
Description
- I provided advice to policy proposals and reports that were commissioned by other stakeholders to the department and conducted health economic evaluations for health programs.
Education
May 2007 - February 2011
Publications
Publications (88)
Background
More than two-thirds of Australians are overweight. Existing research based on non-experimental data has primarily established associations, rather than causal inferences, between physical activity (PA) and Body Mass Index (BMI). PA and BMI likely affect each other, a reciprocal interplay most studies overlook. We investigate the causal...
Purpose
Quality sleep is vital for good health. Although it is known that workhours affect sleep quality, it is not known at what point workhours begin to compromise sleep. Few studies consider workhours in the ‘other job’ (domestic and care work) or address reverse causality between sleep quality and how long people work. This study aimed to estim...
This study aimed to investigate the effect of precarious employment (PE) on the mental health of Australians. Building on previous research, we conceptualised PE as a multidimensional construct, accounted for gender differences in the associations, and our modelling strategy addressed the possibility of reverse causality bias. Data was pooled panel...
We examine the impact of alcohol consumption on children's educational achievement using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys from 2012 to 2018. We find that alcohol consumption negatively impacts children's schooling years and their likelihood of tertiary and higher education, while also positively affecting the lag in their school achiev...
Overweight and obesity is one of the leading causes of diseases in the developed world. In Australia, two thirds of Australians are overweight or obese causing high costs to the healthcare system. Physical inactivity is one of the key determinants of rising overweight and obesity. However, there is little evidence in this research area in Australia...
Context
Despite shifting from addressing isolated forms of malnutrition to recognizing its multifaceted nature, evidence on the prevalence and determinants of micronutrient deficiencies, and their coexistence with undernutrition in children under 5, remains insufficient, unsystematic, and incohesive.
Objective
The aim of this systematic review and...
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migran...
Purpose
This paper describes the development of a digital role play game (RPG) designed to help construction apprentices to better communicate with their supervisors about issues with the potential to impact on their physical and psychological health and safety.
Design/methodology/approach
A participatory approach was adopted to utilise the knowle...
Using nationally representative data from Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), this paper examines the impact of poor health, family impaired health, and family time on the labour market participation of couples aged 25-64. We address sample selection bias and endogeneity bias by employing instrumental variable Tobit models. O...
This paper examines the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) and economic growth in OECD and ASEAN, China and Hong Kong (East Asia) over the past 35 years (1985-2019). Our estimates using vector autoregression on a panel dataset show that the mutually causal relationship between IFDI inflows and economic growth exists in bot...
Time is a resource for health, and when time is constrained, people have less opportunity to maintain good health. This study focuses on the relationship between paid work hours (with a focus on long hours) and body weight for Australian men and women. Time is conceptualised as a 24-hour system, including time in paid work, time in unpaid work, and...
Your health, your partner's and children's health contribute to labour market participation and then income inequality. This is particularly stronger for women couples. Our paper discusses the mechanism on which these factors contribute to widening gender inequality.
Health selection contributes to inequality, however, women are selected out of the labour market not only due to their health, but also their children's and partner's health. Our study shows that men’s market time is relatively less responsive to non-market time. Their income thus is less influenced by non-market time which is driven by care respon...
This study examines the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), institutional quality and human development) in host countries from 2002 to 2019, using the Human Development Index [HDI] as the measure of human development. This study utilized a panel dataset of 143 countries, including both developed and developing economies, over a 1...
What is gender equality in employment? Is it women in the high-flying, high paid and long hour jobs? Is it equal pay? Is it 50/50 in every job, at every level? But do most gender equality policies accept that women need flexibility, family leave, or access to part-time jobs? Because there is the paradox. We are asking women to work like men do to b...
Work conditions such as job demand can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate pathway effects of exogenous factors on mental health via sleep, and the direct effect of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians. We employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-expe...
This study explores changes in wage inequality in Vietnam during a prolonged period of economic transformation. We found that wage inequality increased in the earlier period of 1998-2010, but declined considerably in the following period of 2010–2020. The change in economic structure and increased supply of higher educated workforce have substantia...
This study explores changes in wage inequality in Vietnam during a prolonged period of economic transformation. We found that wage inequality increased in the earlier period of 1998-2010, but declined considerably in the following period of 2010–2020. The change in economic structure and increased supply of higher educated workforce have substantia...
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews...
Work conditions and major life events can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate effect of sleep quality on mental health of working Australians. We pioneer to employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-experimental (Instrumental Variable) approach, which can address recip...
Work conditions such as job demand can impact individual sleep quality, and subsequently impact mental health. This study aims to investigate pathway effects of exogenous factors on mental health via sleep, and the direct effect of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians. We employ a novel method in public health studies, a quasi-expe...
Getting older may reduce unpaid work for women as their children grew up, this presentation will provide evidence that older couple women are still not able to catch up with men in the labor market and may face a bigger cost of health if they try to do so. Gender inequality among older employed Australian couples are still large.
Experiencing poor sleep quality affects an individual's health and wellbeing. Sleep quality is well evidenced to be influenced by work conditions such as long work hours, work stress and shift work, but there is little evidence on the relationship between high work intensity and sleep quality. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynami...
This paper presents the results of the first stage of a research project focused upon supervisor-apprentice communication in the construction industry and the influence that this communication has on apprentices' health, safety, and wellbeing. In-depth interviews were conducted with 30 apprentices and 11 supervisors in the Australian construction i...
Background:
Health demoting consumption of alcohol and tobacco are some of the most important risk factors for health loss worldwide, however there is limited information on these consumption risk factors in New Zealand (NZ) and whether inequities in the risk factors are ethnically patterned.
Methods:
We used three nationally representative Hous...
Currently, ageing and workforce participation policy in Australia does not address the health needs of older adults. The pension age eligibility of 67 in Australia is realistic for some, but our study shows it is unfeasible for many, especially for those who have poorer health. The widening, and connected, wealth and health gap we find among older...
Background
The COVID-19 outbreak has spread to almost every country around the world and caused more than 3 million deaths. The pandemic has triggered enormous disruption in people's daily lives with profound impacts globally. This has also been the case in Australia, despite the country's comparative low mortality and physical morbidity due to the...
Using the RIF-decomposition to explore changes in wage inequality during the economic transformation in Vietnam, we find that real wages increased substantially during the period 1998-2010, but wage growth slowed down in the following period 2010-2020. Wage inequality increased in the former period, but declined considerably in the later one. Overa...
Experiencing poor sleep quality affects an individual’s health and wellbeing. Sleep quality may be influenced by work conditions, with working under high intensity a possible contributor. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey waves 2013 and 2017, this study investigates whether experiencing poor sleep...
Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women’s time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what h...
This paper investigates net wealth of the New Zealand-born (NZ-born) migrants relative to that of Australia-born, and other migrants in Australia. We consider how the free cross-border labour movement between Australia and New Zealand affects the wealth accumulating behaviour of NZ migrants. Our findings indicate that the NZ-born have lower net wea...
More people are working into older age, raising questions about how many hours they can work before their health becomes compromised. This paper models work-hour tipping points for mental health and vitality among older Australian workers aged 50-70 years. We use longitudinal data from the HILDA 2005-2016 survey (about 44,900 observations), and boo...
New Zealanders can cross borders freely, work and live in Australia indefinitely thanks to the Trans-Tasman Travel Agreement. This paper uses a recently developed decomposition method to decompose the weekly wage gap at various quantiles on the wage distribution between New Zealand-born (NZ-born) and Australian-born workers, and between NZ-born wor...
It is well known that physical and mental health are closely related, with growing evidence for biological and behavioural pathways. Mostly the research has focussed on mental health as the key driver of this inter-connection; the extent physical health shapes mental health has received less attention. We aim to derive robust estimates of the uniqu...
Background
Australians born in 2012 can expect to live about 33 years longer than those born 100 years earlier. However, only seven of these additional years are spent in the workforce. Longer life expectancy has driven policies to extend working life and increase retirement age; the current Australian policy, which has increased the eligibility fo...
We investigate time inequity as an explanatory mechanism for gendered physical activity disparity. Our mixed-effect generalized linear model with 2-Stage Residual Inclusion framework uses longitudinal data, capturing differing exchanges and trade-offs in time resources. The first stage estimates within-household exchanges of paid and family workhou...
This paper examines the gender income inequality between male and female workers in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach to a dataset obtained from a unique employee survey during the 2011-2015 period, we find that the gender income gap (7.4%) in micro, small and medium-sized e...
This study examines the role of private sector development (PSD) in multidimensional poverty alleviation in Vietnam, using provincial panel data for the 2010-2019 period. Private sector development is measured as the proportion of the workforce in (i) all private firms, (ii) domestic private firms and (iii) multinational firms, respectively. We use...
Aim The adverse impacts of exposure to work intensity on mental health have been widely studied. However, there is a lack of research examining who is most vulnerable in terms of position on the mental health distribution. The current study aims to: (a) initially estimate the average impacts of work intensity on workers’ mental health in Australia,...
Time is a resource for health, and when time is constrained, people have less opportunity to maintain good health. This study focuses on the relationship between paid work hours (with a focus on long hours) and body weight for Australian men and women. Time is conceptualised as a 24-hour system, including time in paid work, time in unpaid work, and...
We provide new insights into the relationship between foreign investment and the labour productivity of domestic firms in the Vietnamese manufacturing industry. Using quantile regression analysis of a panel of firm-level data over a 2010–2015 study period, we find that the presence of foreign investment has a positive impact on domestic firm labour...
This report was funded by icare and undertaken in partnership with the Master Builders
Association of New South Wales. The report presents Stage 1 results of a project titled
‘Conversations about life, health and safety: Social supports for young construction workers' health and safety.’ 41 interviews were conducted (30 with apprentices and 11 wi...
Women’s employment equality remains compromised by wage and workhour gaps, despite decades of policy action. Shorter workhours are a key to persisting disadvantage because they lock women out of high paying, good quality jobs. Such hour gaps are observed across all countries, and this paper quantifies the reasons behind them. We applied the Oaxaca...
Background:
Australians born in 2012 can expect to live about 33 years longer than those born 100 years earlier. However, only seven of these additional years are spent in the workforce. Longer life expectancy has driven policies to extend working life and increase retirement age, the current Australian policy, which has increased the eligibility...
Assumptions about time, value, labour, and health coalesce in the policy decision to extend the pension eligibility age in Australia from 65 to 67 years. Acknowledging the multiple, often incompatible ways in which time is conceptualised and experienced, we question the expectation of extending Australians’ working lives. Drawing on semi-structured...
In this paper, we examine how time affects health behaviors like physical activities, and how within-family member's time use affects each other's time for physical activities.
While several studies have estimated returns to education in Australia, there is limited evidence regarding the influence of health on the returns. This paper identifies how health affects returns to education in the labour market using the Heckman selection biased-corrected model. We measured health status using a self-rated health item with five...
Objective: To investigate the effect of number of studies in a meta-analysis on the detection of publication bias using p-value driven methods.
Methods: The proportion of meta-analyses detected by Egger’s, Harbord’s, Peters’, and
Begg’s tests to have asymmetry suggestive of publication bias were examined in 5014 meta-analyses from Cochrane reviews...
This study explores the dynamics of income and income inequality in Vietnam from 2004 to 2014. Two main population subgroups are investigated: the ethnic majority, known as the Kinh people, and the minority group, which includes 53 minor ethnicities in Vietnam. The findings show that the income gap among ethnic groups has increased over the last de...
The article discusses the need for a national strategy to guide how employment participation is enhanced for older workers. Researchers, governments, social enterprises, community groups, employers, advocacy organisations and other stakeholder groups are all working to remove the barriers to employment. However, without a national strategy to guide...
This paper examines the relationship between the quality of provincial governance and labour market returns in Vietnam. We find that better provincial governance has a positive effect on labour market wages for wage-earning workers. The finding is consistent across estimators, even after controlling for worker characteristics, geographic regions, u...
This paper examines the relationship between the quality of provincial governance and labour market returns in Vietnam. We find that better provincial governance has a positive effect on labour market wages for wage-earning workers. The finding is consistent across estimators, even after controlling for worker characteristics, geographic regions, u...
This study investigated the role of provincial governance in the growth of per capita income of Vietnamese households, using a balanced panel data set for the period 2012–2014. Although we found no evidence for the influence of provincial governance when a linear fixed‐effect regression estimator was used, the results from a fixed‐effect quantile r...
Evidence exists of a fast increase in the returns to education in Vietnam in the 1990s and 2000s. However, there was a huge change in education policy in the mid-2000s, opening up opportunities for education providers to expand enrolment. This may lead to a decline in the returns to education in later years when the changes have generated sufficien...
Using data from nationwide surveys of provincial institutions and private manufacturing small medium enterprises, this study provided the first evidence of the impact of provincial institution quality and firms’ participation in and intensity of corrupt activities on firm productivity in Vietnam. We found that the bribe intensity instead of whether...
Using data from nationwide surveys of provincial institutions and private manufacturing
small medium enterprises, this study provided the first evidence of the
impact of provincial institution quality and firms’ participation in and intensity
of corrupt activities on firm productivity in Vietnam. We found that the bribe
intensity instead of whether...
Using data from the 2011 Vietnam National Aging Survey, we examined whether religion is associated with subjective well-being (i.e. happiness or life satisfaction) among old people in Vietnam. Our regression analysis provided the first evidence that some religious affiliations are negatively related to happiness. Buddhists and Caodaists are less ha...
Quantile treatment effects are estimated to study the impacts of household credit access on health spending by poor households in one District of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. There are significant positive effects of credit on the health budget shares of households with low health care spending. In contrast, when an average treatment effect is estima...
Purpose: Limited econometric evidence exists on the determinants of nonfarm participation among ethnic minorities in Vietnam. The main objective of the current study is to examine the intensity of nonfarm participation and its correlates among ethnic minority households in Northwest Mountains - the poorest region of Vietnam.
Design/methodology/appr...
This paper uses a dataset collected from peri-urban areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to examine how the poor use their loans, and factors affecting their credit participation and credit constraints. The paper finds that the presence of many commercial banks in the areas does not help the poor; instead the poor rely heavily on informal credit. Loa...
This paper examines whether rising import penetration has an effect on the productivity of domestic firms. The study uses data on a 10-year unbalanced panel of firms in the manufacturing sector in Vietnam from 2000 to 2009. Panel and instrumental variable methods are used to control firm heterogeneity and endogeneity of import penetration. We find...
This paper examines whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has spillover effects on the productivity of domestic firms. Three types of potential spillovers are considered: horizontal (within industry), backward (foreign-owned customers) and forward (foreign-owned suppliers). The study uses data on a 10-year panel of firms and covers almost all bus...
There is an ongoing debate about whether microfinance has a positive impact on education and health for borrowing households in developing countries. To understand this debate, we use a survey designed to meet the conditions for propensity score matching (PSM) and examine the impact of household credit on education and healthcare spending by the po...
There is debate about whether microfinance has positive impacts on education and health for borrowing households in developing countries. To provide evidence for this debate we use a new survey designed to meet the conditions for propensity score matching (PSM) and examine the impact of household credit on education and healthcare spending by the p...
This paper uses a novelty dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence of the effect, especially of informal credit. Formal credit is likely to have positive impacts on child schooling, but its eff...
This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and employment quality. Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2007 and 2009. we find some evidence that export participation by firms in Vietnam has a positive impact on wages when taking into account firm characteristi...
In this paper we decompose labour productivity growth in the New Zealand industries. Using the prototype Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), we measure the firm productivity growth and break it down to see what composes the growth. Our
analysis has three parts. First, we decompose labour productivity growth across industries using Olley and Pake...
In this paper we decompose labour productivity growth in the New Zealand industries.
Using the prototype Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), we measure the firm
productivity growth and break it down to see what composes the growth. Our
analysis has three parts. First, we decompose labour productivity growth across
industries using Olley and Pakes...
The creation of new firms and the death of existing firms is a fundamental part of the functioning of capitalist economies. In any given year, around one-fifth of firms have either been born or died. In this paper, we investigate patterns of firm entry and exit in New Zealand. We examine how firm birth and death varies across industries. We also ex...
Vietnam has gone through massive economic restructuring from a socialist command economy to market-oriented economy. This provides an excellent example of a country that has experienced changes in competition regime. Economic reforms in late 1980s and 1990s and the introduction of pro-competitive policies in the first half of 2000s have radically a...
A common phenomenon about transition economies is that the return to schooling improves as economic reform progresses. Existing evidence suggests that Vietnam is not an exception to the pattern. However, the rate of return for the period 1992 to 1998 is still low relative to that of the world and of other transitional economies. To provide up-to-da...
This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that income premium of four-year university education is about 97 percent above that of high...
Using a panel dataset of 19,836 manufacturing firms from the prototype Longitudinal
Business Database spanning the years 2000-09, this paper offers the first evidence on the
nexus between productivity and competition in New Zealand. Two measures of competition are used: the Lerner index (LI) and the profit elasticity (PE) indicator. Productivity is...
This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to the four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that the return to university education is about 17% (annualized) and robust to the vario...
This paper uses a novelty dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence of the effect, especially of informal credit. Formal credit is likely to have positive impacts on child schooling, but its eff...
Understanding the degree and evolution of competition across industries is an important step towards understanding the impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-c...
This paper presents the effects of industrialization on economic and employment structure during the economic transition in Vietnam. Although Vietnam has made a significant progress in changing economic structure in which the share of agricultural contribution in GDP has dramatically decreased over the last two decades, the employment structure cha...
A common phenomenon about transition economies is that the return to schooling improves as economic reform progresses. Existing research suggests that Vietnam is not an exception to the pattern. However, the rate of return in period from 1992 to 1998 is still relatively low, below 5 percent, relative to that of the world and other transitional econ...