Welcome!
An Huang's (黄安) research is in behavioral and cultural economics. He studies how people’s behaviors, preferences, and beliefs—broadly defined as culture—vary across geographical regions, and how these differences are related to historical, environmental factors. Methodologically, he uses large-scale surveys and experiments to document variation in cultural traits, which he then combines with environmental drivers from Census data or ethnographic records. To infer causality, he leverages quasi-experimental variation from natural experiments and applies econometric tools.
His work has shown how past economic subsistence—namely marine fishing [Job Market Paper], irrigation, and rice farming—may have shaped large-scale differences in human behavior, psychology, and culture. An has also researched how environmental shocks can lead to rapid changes in health behaviors.
An is currently a final-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Monash University. From Fall 2023 to Summer 2024, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.
An will be on the 2024-25 academic job market.
keywords: An, Huang, An Huang, Economics, Culture, Fishing, irrigation.
