Huang, Haifang

Assistant Professor of Economics

Dr. Huang completed his PhD degree in economics at the University of British Columbia in 2008.  He received a MA in economics (2001) from the University of New Brunswick, and a BA in economics (1999) from the Renmin University of China.

Office: 9-14 HM Tory Bldg
Phone:  (780) 248-1323
Email:  haifang.huang@ualberta.ca

CV March 2012

Webpage:  http://www.ualberta.ca/~haifang/index.html
 

Teaching Fall 2011

  • Econ 341: Money and Banking
  • Econ 581: Macroeconomic Theory I (Grad)

Teaching Winter 2012

  • Econ 282: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Housing economics
  • Well-being

Working papers

  • “From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Business Loans,” October 211, Haifang Huang and Eric Stephens, UofA Economics Working Paper Series no. 2011-15.
  •  “New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 2.3 million Americans,” February 2010, John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang, UofA Economics Working Paper Series no. 2011-03 and NBER no. 16829.
  •  “Constructing Consumer Sentiment Index for U.S. Using Internet Search Patterns,” October 2009, Nicolas Della Penna and Haifang Huang, UofA Economics Working Paper Series no. 2009-26.

Publications: Articles in journals

  • “Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from U.S. Micro Data,” (forthcoming) Haifang Huang and Brad Humphreys, Journal of Economic Psychology.
  • “Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle between 2000 and 2009,” (forthcoming), Haifang Huang and Yao Tang, Journal of Urban Economics.
  • “Well-being and Trust in the Workplace,” John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang, Journal of Happiness Studies, 2011, volume 12(5), 747-767
  • "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), 205-227.
  • "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), 595-619

Publications: Short notes

  • “Dropping the Geographic-Constraints Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox,” Haifang Huang and Yao Tang. Econ Journal Watch, 2011, vol. 8(1), 28-32.

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. Chapter 10 in Diener, Helliwell and Kahneman eds. International Differences in Well-Being (2010, Oxford University Press).
  •  “Are Trust and Social Capital Neglected Workplace Investments,” John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Robert D. Putnam. Chapter 4 in Bartkus, Viva and Davis, James, eds. Social Capital Reaching Out, Reaching In (2008, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar).