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Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) addresses critical issues affecting the countries of Asia, their regional and global affairs, and U.S.-Asia relations. As Stanford University’s hub for the interdisciplinary study of contemporary Asia, we produce policy-relevant research, provide education and training to students, scholars, and practitioners, and strengthen dialogue and cooperation between counterparts in the Asia-Pacific and the United States.Visit Site
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June 29, 2020
Intended and Unintended Consequences of a New Limit on Working Hours in South Korea: Implications for Precarious Employment
By: Sungchul Park, Hansoo Ko -
June 22, 2020
COVID-19 Incidence and the Timing of Quarantine Measures and Travel Restrictions: A Cross-country Analysis
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
January 01, 2020
Exploring India's Strategic Futures
By: Arzan Tarapore -
October 18, 2019
Healing One-fifth of Humanity: Progress and Challenges for China’s Health System
By: Karen Eggleston -
January 17, 2019
Weathering the Storm: Weather Shocks and International Migrants from the Philippines
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
January 01, 2019
Civil Wars, Intrastate Violence, and International Responses
By: Todd Richardson -
December 10, 2018
How Individuals’ Birth Weight and Later Risk Factors Interact to Determine Their Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Study in the Philippines
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
December 07, 2018
The Impact of Energy Access on Mothers’ Health, Labor, and Time Allocation
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
November 23, 2018
The Impact of Adolescents’ Risky Health Behaviors on Their Later Economic Outcomes
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
October 24, 2018
Break Through: Women in Silicon Valley, Womenomics in Japan Final Report
By: Asia-Pacific Research Center -
July 01, 2018
Taiwan's Place in the Evolving Security Environment of East Asia
By: Kharis Templeman -
April 20, 2018
Selective Mortality and the Long-term Effects of Early-life Exposure to Natural Disasters
By: Margaret Triyana, Xing Xia -
April 20, 2018
Dual Practice of Public Hospital Physicians in Vietnam
By: Ngan Do, Young Kyung Do -
April 20, 2018
Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine in Asia: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatment in Taiwan
By: Karen Eggleston, Jui-fen Rachel Lu -
April 03, 2018
Organizing Old Age Pensions for India’s Informal Workers: A Case Study of a Sector-Driven Approach
By: M.R. Narayana -
January 17, 2018
Rural-Urban Disparities in the Utilization of Mental Health Inpatient Services in China: The Role of Health Insurance
By: Junfang Xu, Jian Wang, Madeleine King, Ruiyun Liu, Fenghua Yu, Jinshui Xing, Lei Su, Mingshan Lu -
January 11, 2018
Substance Abuse Policy in Thailand: Current Challenges and Future Strategies
By: Darika Saingam -
January 01, 2018
From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation and Linkage
By: Gi-Wook Shin, Rennie Moon -
January 01, 2018
Artificial Intelligence: The Algorithmic Revolution Driving the Next Industrial Transformation
By: Kenji E. Kushida -
January 01, 2018
Abenomics and Japan's Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Is the Third Arrow Pointed in the Right Direction for Global Competition in the Digital Era of Silicon Valley?
By: Kenji E. Kushida -
January 01, 2018
ASEAN @ 50, Southeast Asia @ Risk: What Should Be Done?
By: Asia-Pacific Research Center -
June 01, 2017
The Seventeenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
By: Asia-Pacific Research Center -
June 01, 2017
Analyzing the Structure and Performance of Kim Jong-un's Regime
By: Asia-Pacific Research Center -
March 01, 2017
South Korea Votes for Change: What It Means for the United States
By: Daniel Sneider -
September 05, 2014
Countering Sanctions: The Unequal Geographic Impact of Economic Sanctions in North Korea
By: Yong Suk Lee -
September 05, 2014
The Next Epoch in Cloud Computing: Implications for Integrated Research and Innovation Strategy
By: John Zysman, Kenji E. Kushida, Jonathan Murray, Patrick Scaglia -
June 05, 2014
Implementing Structural Reforms in Abenomics: How to Reduce the Cost of Doing Business in Japan
By: Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, Takeo Hoshi -
June 05, 2014
Strategies and Public Propositions in Games of Institutional Change, Comparative Historical Cases
By: Masahiko Aoki -
January 05, 2014
People with Disabilities in a Changing North Korea
By: Katharina Zellweger -
September 05, 2013
Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence from China's Essential Medications List Policy
By: Brian K. Chen -
August 05, 2013
Empirical Investigation of Declining Childbirth: Psychosocial and Economic Conditions in Japan
By: Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Chie Hanaoka, Seiritsu Ogura -
July 05, 2013
The Roles of Gender and Education on the Intrahousehold Allocations of Remittances of Filipino Migrant Workers
By: Marjorie Pajaron -
June 05, 2013
The Tenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
By: Walter H. Shorenstein -
February 05, 2012
Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Naval Area Medical Research Unit 2
By: Sophal Ear -
January 05, 2012
Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: Macro-Level Evidence from China between 1997 and 2008
By: Qiong Zhang, Binzhen Wu, Xue Qiao -
December 05, 2011
Do Chinese Really Save Too Much? Aspects from Total Factor Productivity Growth in China since 1952
By: Qiong Zhang, Chong-En Bai -
October 05, 2011
Coordinations Under Large Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Fukushima Catastrophe
By: Masahiko Aoki, Geoffrey Rothwell -
July 05, 2011
The Changing Governance of Higher Education in India
By: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Carnoy -
May 05, 2011
Social Media in the Workplace
By: Rafiq Dossani -
April 05, 2011
Recalibration of the Framingham Equations in the Thai Population
By: Panrasri Khonputsa, JL Veerman, M Bertram, S Yamwong, P Vathesatogkit, SS Lim, T Vos -
December 05, 2010
Prevention and Control of Chronic Non-communicable Disease in Nine Pacific Rim Cities
By: Karen Eggleston, Meng Kin Lin, Kun Chen, Yunxian Yu, Sung-Il Cho, Sian Griffiths, EK Yeoh, Jamal Hisham Hashim, Masamine Jimba, Carl Anderson Johnson, Paula Palmer, Vu-Anh Le, Huu-Bich Tran, Ngoc-Quang La, Bambang Wispriyono -
November 05, 2010
The Effect of Coresidence with an Adult Child on Depressive Symptoms among Older Widowed Women in South Korea: An Instrumental Variable Estimation
By: Young Kyung Do, Chetna Malhotra -
November 05, 2010
The Imbalance between Patient Needs and the Limited Competence of Top-Level Health Providers in Urban China: An Empirical Study
By: Qunhong Shen, Liyang Tang, Yilin Feng, Jenny Tang -
October 05, 2010
Perverse Incentives in the Chinese Health System and Assessment of the April 2009 Reform
By: Meghan Bruce -
September 05, 2010
Patient Preferences, Concerns, and Satisfaction with Providers before the Chinese Urban Health System Reform: A Social Groups Analysis
By: Qunhong Shen, Liyang Tang -
July 05, 2010
Longevity, Capital Formation and Economic Development
By: Qiong Zhang -
July 05, 2010
Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending: The Effects of Recent Health Sector Reforms in India
By: Soumitra Ghosh -
June 05, 2010
Health Expenditures in Pakistan: Cross-Checking Household Expenditure Data on Health for NHA and Adjustment with National Accounts
By: Christian Lorenz -
May 05, 2010
Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior: Evidence from Taiwan
By: Brian Chen -
May 05, 2010
Understanding the Expansion and Quality of Engineering Education in India (draft)
By: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Carnoy, Jandhyala Tilak -
December 05, 2009
Principal-Agent Problems in Health Care: Evidence from Prescribing Patterns of Private Providers in Vietnam
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November 05, 2009
Pandemic Influenza and the Globalization of Public Health
By: Karen Eggleston, Qiong Zhang, Michele Barry -
October 05, 2009
Striking the Right Balance: Economic Concentration and Local Government Performance in Indonesia and the Philippines
By: Christian von Luebke -
September 05, 2009
The Emerging Role of Private Health Care Provision in China
By: Cunrui Huang, Haocai Liang, Cordia Chu, Shannon Rutherford, Qingshan Geng -
August 05, 2009
Out-of-pocket household health expenditures and their use in National Health Accounts: Evidence from Pakistan
By: Christian Lorenz -
April 05, 2009
Comparing Public and Private Hospitals in China: Evidence from Guangdong
By: Karen Eggleston, Mingshan Lu, Congdong Li, Jian Wang, Zhe Yang, Jing Zhang -
March 05, 2009
Soft budget constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong hospital industry
By: Karen Eggleston, Mingshan Lu, Congdong Li, Jian Wang, Zhe Yang, Jing Zhang, Yu-Chu Shen -
March 05, 2009
Does your health care depend on how your insurer pays providers? Variation in utilization and outcomes in Thailand
By: Sanita Hirunrassamee, Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin -
March 05, 2009
The healer or the druggist: Effects of two health care policies in Taiwan on elderly patients' choice between physician and pharmacist services
By: Kang-Hung Chang -
March 05, 2009
Allocation of control rights and cooperation efficiency in public-private partnerships: Theory and evidence from the Chinese pharmaceutical industry
By: Zhe Zhang, Ming Jia, Difang Wan -
February 05, 2009
Aging Risk and Health Care Cost in Korea
By: Byong Ho Tchoe, Sang-Ho Nam -
February 05, 2009
Crisis and Consensus; America and ASEAN in a New Global Context
By: Donald K. Emmerson -
December 05, 2008
The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Labor Market Outcomes in South Korea
By: Young Kyung Do -
December 05, 2008
Has the Use of Physician Gatekeepers Declined among HMOs? Evidence from the United States
By: Hai Fang, Hong Liu, John A. Rizzo -
October 05, 2008
Incentives in China's Healthcare Delivery System
By: Karen Eggleston -
June 05, 2008
The Political Economy of Successful Reform: Asian Stratagems
By: Dennis Arroyo -
February 05, 2008
Early-Stage Valuation in the Biotechnology Industry
By: Vinay Ranade -
January 05, 2008
Decision Factors Affecting Semiconductor Industry Location and the Regional Advantages of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
By: Kyoko Ii -
July 05, 2007
Bound by a Hidden Agenda: The Birth and Consequences of the Bank of Japan's Quantitative Monetary Easing
By: Tetsufumi Arita -
April 05, 2007
Investing in China's Rural Infrastructure and Environment
By: Scott Rozelle -
March 05, 2007
Information, Incentives and Institutions: Experimenting with Private-Public Partnerships to Link the Poor with Modern Supply Chains
By: Jikun Huang, Johan Swinnen, Marcel Fafchamps, Tom Reardon, Bart Minten, Scott Rozelle -
February 05, 2007
Managing Pest Resistance in Fragmented Farms: An Analysis of the Risk of Bt Cotton in China and its Zero Refuge Strategy and Beyond
By: Fangbin Qiao, Jim Wilen, Jikun Huang -
February 05, 2007
When Dragons and Kangaroos Trade: China's Rapid Economic Growth and Its Implications for China and Australia
By: Jikun Huang, Jun Yang, Scott Rozelle -
February 05, 2007
Irrigation Water Pricing Policy in China
By: Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Richard Howitt, Jinxia Wang -
February 05, 2007
Water User Associations and the Evolution and Determinants of Management Reform: A Representative Look at Northern China
By: Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Scott Rozelle -
February 05, 2007
Water Management Reform and the Choice of Contractual Form in China
By: Siwa Msangi, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Jikin Huang, Scott Rozelle -
February 05, 2007
Program for the Study of Biofuels, Poverty and Food Security
By: Jikun Huang, Mark Rosengrant, Rosamond Naylor, Walter P. Falcon, David Victor, Kenneth Cassman, Scott Rozelle -
January 05, 2007
Vote of Confidence, A? Voting Protocol and Participation in China's Village Elections
By: Xiaopeng Pang, Scott Rozelle -
January 05, 2007
Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style
By: Jikun Huang, Renfru Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle -
January 05, 2007
The Role of Agriculture in China's Development: Past Failures, Present Successes and Future Challenges
By: Jikun Huang, Keijiro Otsuka, Scott Rozelle -
January 05, 2007
Why Did the Communist Party Reform in China, But Not in the Soviet Union? The Political Economy of Agricultural Transition
By: Johan Swinnen, Scott Rozelle -
January 05, 2007
Water price policy analysis in China:An experimental approach
By: Jikun Huang, Qiuqiong Huang, Jinxia Wang, Jun Xia, Scott Rozelle, Dean Karlan -
October 05, 2006
Southeast Asian-Pacific Frameworks: What Do They Frame and What Work Do They Do?
By: Donald Emmerson -
February 05, 2006
Food Security in North Korea: Designing Realistic Possibilities
By: Randall Ireson -
September 05, 2005
Origins and Growth of the Software Industry in India
By: Rafiq Dossani -
March 05, 2005
What Do the Blind-sided See? Reapproaching Regionalism in Southeast Asia
By: Donald K. Emmerson -
March 05, 2005
Indian Federalism and the Conduct of Foreign Policy in Border States: State Participation and Central Accommodation since 1990
By: Rafiq Dossani, Srinidhi Vijaykumar -
January 05, 2005
Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea
By: Hyun Park -
November 05, 2004
Prospects Brighten for Long-term Peace in South Asia
By: Rafiq Dossani -
March 05, 2004
Power Sector Reforms in India: Issues Relating to Agriculture
By: Rafiq Dossani -
November 05, 2003
Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
By: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney -
October 05, 2003
Emerging Third Stage Peri-Urbanization: Functional Specialization in the Hangzhou Peri-Urban Region
By: Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Binyi Luo, Larisa Muller -
October 05, 2003
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Urban Dynamics in Chengdu, 1975–2002
By: Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Binyi Luo, Annemarie Schneider, Karen C. Seto -
September 05, 2003
Tax Reforms for Enhancing the Stable Development of the Chinese Financial System
By: Lawrence J. Lau, Guijuan Wang -
July 05, 2003
Farmer's Willingness to Pay for Power in India
By: Rafiq Dossani, V. Ranganathan -
June 05, 2003
The Politics of China's Shareholding System
By: Mary Comerford Cooper -
April 05, 2003
Local Governments and the Chinese Stock Market
By: Mary Comerford Cooper -
April 05, 2003
Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge
By: Michael H. Armacost, Daniel I. Okimoto, Gi-Wook Shin -
April 05, 2003
Sociological Dimensions of China's Economic Transition: Organization, Stratification, and Social Mobility
By: Andrew G. Walder -
April 05, 2003
International Organizations and Democratization: Testing the Effect of GATT/WTO Membership
By: Mary Comerford Cooper -
April 05, 2003
Politics and Property in Transitional Economies: A Theory of Elite Opportunity
By: Andrew G. Walder -
January 05, 2003
The Paradox of Korean Globalization
By: Gi-Wook Shin -
December 05, 2002
Political Office, Kinship, and Household Wealth in Rural China
By: Andrew G. Walder, Litao Zhao -
October 05, 2002
From Keiretsu to Startups: Japan's Push for High Tech Entrepreneurship
By: Henry Rowen, A. Maria Toyoda -
September 05, 2002
The Growth of Broadband Internet Connections in South Korea: Contributing Factors
By: Kyounglim Yun, Heejin Lee, So-Hye Lim -
August 05, 2002
Inaugural Oksenberg Lecture: The United States and China: A President's Perspective. An address by Jimmy Carter
By: Jimmy Carter -
July 05, 2002
Privatization and Elite Mobility: Rural China, 1979-1996
By: Andrew G. Walder -
July 05, 2002
Foreign Penetration of Japan's Investment-Banking Market: Will Japan Experience the "Wimbledon Effect"?
By: Nicole Pole -
May 05, 2002
Challenges of Peri-urbanization in the Lower Yangtze region: The Case of the Hanzhou-Ningbo Corridor
By: Douglas Webster -
May 05, 2002
On the Edge: Shaping the Future of Peri-urban East Asia
By: Douglas Webster -
March 05, 2002
Chinese and Indian Engineers and their Networks in Silicon Valley
By: Rafiq Dossani -
February 05, 2002
Cosmopolitan Cities and Nation States: Open Economics,Urban Dynamics, and Government in East Asia
By: Thomas P. Rohlen -
May 05, 2001
Creating an Environment: Developing Venture Capital in India
By: Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney -
January 05, 2001
Foreign Direct Investment in New Electricity Generating Capacity in Developing Asia: Stakeholders, Risks, and the Search for a New Paradigm
By: Robert Thomas Crow -
October 05, 2000
Turning Points in the Korean Space-Economy: From the Developmental State to Intercity Competition, 1953-2000
By: Mike Douglass -
October 05, 2000
Political Change in Taiwan: Implications for American Policy An address by RICHARD BUSH and Roundtable Discussion on Taiwan's Historic 2000 Elections
By: Katsuhiro Nakagawa -
July 05, 2000
Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: "One Country, Two Systems" in the Emerging Metropolitan Context
By: Thomas P. Rohlen -
July 05, 2000
The Japanese Network State in U.S. Comparison: Does Embeddedness Yield Resources and Influence?
By: Jeffrey Broadbent -
May 05, 2000
Opening Up to the World: India's Pharmaceutical Companies Prepare for 2005
By: Sean Eric Smith -
March 05, 2000
Relating the U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Japan Alliances to Emerging Asia Pacific Multilateral Processes: An ASEAN Perspective
By: Chin Kin Wah, Pang Eng Fong -
February 05, 2000
The United States and the Republic of China, 1949-1978: Suspicious Allies
By: Steven M. Goldstein -
January 05, 2000
The Domestic Context of the Alliances: The Politics of Tokyo
By: Akihiko Tanaka -
December 05, 1999
Japanese Entrepreneurship: Can the Silicon Valley Model Be Applied to Japan?
By: Katsuhiro Nakagawa -
October 05, 1999
Accessing Venture Capital in India
By: Rafiq Dossani -
October 05, 1999
Assessing U.S. Bilateral Security Alliances in the Asia Pacific's "Southern Rim": Why the San Francisco System Endures
By: William T. Tow -
September 05, 1999
Containment by Stealth: Chinese Views of and Policies toward America's Alliances with Japan and Korea after the Cold War
By: Yu Bin -
August 05, 1999
Catch-Up; Why Poor Countries Are Becoming Richer, Democratic, Increasingly Peaceable, and Sometimes More Dangerous
By: Henry S. Rowen -
August 05, 1999
Crisis and Aftermath: The Prospects for Institutional Change in Japan
By: Rafiq Dossani -
July 05, 1999
Nesting the Alliances in the Emerging Context of Asia-Pacific Multilateral Processes: A U.S. Perspective
By: Douglas Paal -
July 05, 1999
When Realism and Liberalism Coincide: Russian Views of U.S. Alliances in Asia
By: Andrew C. Kuchins, Alexei V. Zagorsky -
July 05, 1999
Adjusting America's Two Alliances in East Asia: A Japanese View
By: Takashi Inoguchi -
July 05, 1999
Changing Relations between Party, Military, and Government in North Korea and Their Impact on Policy Direction
By: Jinwook Choi -
June 05, 1999
China and the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Korea Alliances in a Changing Northeast Asia
By: Chu Shulong -
April 05, 1999
New Estimates of the United States - China Trade Balances
By: Lawrence J. Lau, K.C. Fung -
March 05, 1999
Seoul Domestic Policy and the Korean-American Alliance
By: B.C. Koh -
March 05, 1999
Japan-ROK Security Relations: An American Perspective
By: Michael J. Green -
February 05, 1999
The Korean-American Alliance and the "Rise of China": A Preliminary Assessment of Perceptual Changes and Strategic Choices
By: Jae Ho Chung -
February 05, 1999
Asian Alliances and American Politics
By: Michael H. Armacost -
January 05, 1999
Show of Force: The PLA and the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis
By: Andrew Scobell -
December 05, 1998
The Yen, the Yuan, and the Asian Currency Crisis Changing Fortune between Japan and China
By: C.H. Kwan -
October 05, 1998
Variation of Clinical Judgment in Cases of Hysterectomy in R.O.C, Japan, England, and the United States
By: Yumiko Nishimura, Naohiro Mitsutake, Michael McCullough, Barry Uphoff, Annie Woo, Chang-Yao Hsieh -
September 05, 1998
Japan's China Perceptions and its Policies in the Alliance with the United States
By: Hideo Sato -
August 05, 1998
Chinese Military Modernization and Asian Security
By: Michael Swaine -
August 05, 1998
The Origins and Evolution of the Korean-American Alliance: A Japanese Perspective
By: Koji Murata -
July 05, 1998
East Asian Urbanization: Patterns, Problems, and Prospects
By: Mike Douglass -
June 05, 1998
China's Post-Deng Military Leadership: New Faces, New Trends
By: David Shambaugh -
May 05, 1998
The Korean Currency Crisis: What Can We Learn From It?
By: Sang-Mok Suh -
April 05, 1998
Benefits and Burdens: The Politically Dominated Economics of U.S. Alliances with Japan and Korea
By: Charles Wolf, Michele Zanini -
March 05, 1998
The Costs and Benefits of Korean Unification
By: Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson, Li-gang Liu -
February 05, 1998
China's Accession to and Implementation of International Environmental Accords 1978 - 95
By: Michel Oksenberg, Elizabeth Economy -
February 05, 1998
Integration on the Basis of Strength: China's Impact on East Asian Security
By: Wu Xinbo -
January 05, 1998
Energy and Security in East Asia
By: Michael May -
January 05, 1998
The Japan-America Security Alliance: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century
By: Daniel Okimoto -
August 05, 1997
Future Prospects for the U.S. Defense Budget and Their Implications for Our Asian Alliance Commitments
By: Andrew Krepinevich -
June 05, 1997
Sankin Kotai: Institutionalized Trust as the Foundation for Economic Development in the Tokugawa Era
By: Jennifer Amyx -
June 05, 1997
U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines: Toward a New Accommodation of Mutual Responsibility
By: Paul Giarra -
May 05, 1997
China's Foreign Economic Relations
By: K.C. Fung, Lawrence Lau -
December 05, 1996
The Syndrome of the Ever-Higher Yen, 1971-95: American Mercantile Pressure on Japanese Monetary Policy
By: Ronald McKinnon, Kazuko Shirono, Kenichi Ohno -
April 05, 1996
The China-United States Bilateral Trade Balance: How Big Is It Really?
By: K.C. Fung, Lawrence Lau -
January 05, 1996
A United States Policy for the Changing Realities of East Asia
By: Donald Emmerson, Michael H. Armacost, Henry Rowen, Michel Oksenberg, Daniel Okimoto, James Raphael, Thomas Rohlen