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Curriculum Vitae (December 2024)

An Huang's (黄安) conducts research in applied microeconomics, with primary fields in behavioral & experimental economics, cultural economics, and economic development/history. 

He studies how people’s behaviors, preferences, and beliefs—broadly defined as culture—vary across geographical regions, and how these differences are related to 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 on the 2024-25 academic job market. 

An is currently a final-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Monash University, with an expected completion date of February 2025. From Fall 2023 to Summer 2024, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

Emails: anhuang96@gmail.com / an.huang@monash.edu