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Sharing scholarship and insight on pressing Asia-Pacific topics
Our publishing program
We disseminate research and insight by the Shorenstein APARC intellectual community through an active publishing program that includes an array of books, working papers, and policy briefs. In addition, our faculty and researchers publish extensively in peer-reviewed, academic journals and in scholarly and trade presses. They also frequently provide commentary on newsworthy topics affecting Asia and U.S.-Asia relations.
Featured Publications
Exploring the Intersection of Demographics and Innovation in Asia
The new volume 'Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific' offers lessons from Asian nations about the challenges facing aging societies and the roles technology and innovation may play in rebalancing them.
Charting a Course for Future Economic Growth in East Asia
The volume 'Shifting Gears in innovation Policy' examines the strategies East Asian nations are adopting to transition from the catch-up economic model to indigenous innovation and entrepreneurship.
Analyzing China-Southeast Asia Relations in the 21st Centurry
In Donald K. Emmerson’s new edited volume, ‘The Deer and the Dragon,’ experts explore how Southeast Asian nations are navigating complex challenges in relation to their powerful and increasingly assertive neighbor.
APARC Monograph Series with Stanford University Press
Jointly with Stanford University Press, the Center produces the series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, featuring academic research by our faculty and scholars.
APARC In-House Series with the Brookings Institution Press
The Center produces a self-published book series featuring policy-relevant research and analysis by our scholars and affiliates. Titles in this series are distributed by Brookings Institution Press.
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Book
Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific
Karen Eggleston, Joon-Shik Park, Gi-Wook Shin
2021
Book
Patterns of Impunity
Robert R. King
2021
Human Rights in North Korea and the Role of the U.S. Special Envoy
Journal Article
Health, Psychosocial, and Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People With Chronic Conditions in India
Kavita (Singh), Dimple Kondal, Sailesh Mohan, Suganthi Jaganathan, Mohan Deepa, Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Prashant Jarhyan, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Viswanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammed K. Ali, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Karen Eggleston
BMC Public Health ,
2021
A Mixed Methods Study
Working Paper
A quarter century of ‘The Proper Scope of Government’: Theory and Applications
Oliver Hart
Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 64 ,
2021
A quarter century ago in a seminal paper, Hart, Shleifer and Vishny (NBER1996, QJE1997) developed a theory of the ‘Proper Scope of Government.’ Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate, reflects on that framework and its place in economics, as well as the inspiration for his more recent work on norms, guiding principles, and contracts as reference points.
Book
The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector
Karen Eggleston, John D. Donahue, Richard J. Zeckhauser
2021
Public-Private Collaboration in China and the United States
Working Paper
The Effects of Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Rural China
Hui Ding, Yiwei Chen, Min Yu, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie, Karen Eggleston
Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 62 ,
2021
Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases, yet many - especially in low- and middle-income countries - lack strong chronic disease management in primary health care (PHC). We provide evidence on China’s efforts to promote PHC management using unique five-year panel data in a rural county, including health care utilization from medical claims and health outcomes from biomarkers.
Working Paper
Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Evidence from Nursing Homes
Karen Eggleston, Yong Suk Lee, Toshiaki Iizuka
Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 63 ,
2021
In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent with reduced burden of care.
Journal Article
False Alarm? Estimating the Marginal Value of Health Signals
Brian Chen, Karen Eggleston, Toshiaki Iizuka, Katsuhiko Nishiyama
Journal of Public Economics ,
2021
Working Paper
Health, Psychosocial, and Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Chronic Condition in India: A Mixed Methods Study
Kavita (Singh), Dimple Kondal, Sailesh Mohan, Suganthi Jaganathan, Deepa Mohan, Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Prashant Jarhyan, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, KM Venkat Narayan, Viswanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammed K Ali, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Karen Eggleston
Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 61 ,
2021
Background. People with chronic conditions are disproportionately prone to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but there are limited data documenting this. We aimed to assess the health, psychosocial and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with chronic conditions in India.
Journal Article
Teach What You Preach: A Comprehensive Guide to the Policy Memo as a Methods Teaching Tool
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Journal of Political Science Education ,
2021
The policy memo is particularly suited for introducing basic methodological concepts to upper-division undergraduate students of political science, argues Oriana Skylar Mastro.
Book
Shifting Gears in Innovation Policy: Strategies from Asia
Yong Suk Lee, Gi-Wook Shin, Takeo Hoshi
2020
Journal Article
Building Strategic Leverage in the Indian Ocean Region
Arzan Tarapore
The Washington Quarterly ,
2020
The United States and its likeminded partners, particularly India — if four constraints are more realistically accounted for — and other members of the Quad, can more effectively mitigate the risks of Chinese military expansion by building “strategic leverage” along these four lines of effort in the Indian Ocean region.
Journal Article
Cost-effective Interventions to Prevent Non-communicable Diseases: Increasing the Evidence Base in India and Other Low- and Middle-income Settings
Karen Eggleston, Radhika Jain
BMC Medicine ,
2020
Journal Article
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Oriana Skylar Mastro
China Leadership Monitor ,
2020
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting China’s claims in the South China Sea. This essay evaluates PLA statements, military exercises and operations, and deployment of relevant platforms and weapons in the South China Sea during this period. I leverage Chinese-language sources in addition to my own operational knowledge from over a decade of military experience to provide greater context for these activities.
Journal Article
Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship?
Yong Suk Lee,
Charles Eesley, Yong Suk Lee
Strategic Management Journal ,
2020
Yong Suk Lee and Charles Eesley examine how university entrepreneurship programs affect entrepreneurial activity using a unique entrepreneurship‐focused survey of Stanford alumni. OLS regressions find a positive relationship between program participation and entrepreneurship activities. However, endogeneity hinders causal interpretation. They utilize the fact that the entrepreneurship programs were implemented at the school level.
Working Paper
The Effects of India’s COVID-19 Lockdown on Critical Non-COVID Health Care and Outcomes
Radhika Jain, Pascaline Dupas
Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 60 ,
2020
India’s COVID-19 lockdown is widely believed to have disrupted critical health services, but its effect on non-COVID health outcomes is largely unknown. Comparing mortality trends among dialysis patients in the eight months around the lockdown with the previous year, we document a 64% increase in mortality between March and May 2020 and an estimated 22-25% total excess mortality through July 2020. The mortality increase is greater among females and disadvantaged groups.
Policy Brief
Exploring India's Strategic Futures
Arzan Tarapore
The National Bureau of Asian Research - Special Report no. 88 ,
2020
Book
The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century
Donald K. Emmerson
2020
Southeast Asia is arguably the most diverse region in the world. Accordingly, rather than addressing the exact same question, the contributors to this volume have — as experts on Southeast Asia-China relations — explored the matters they see as most important and most deserving of exploration and exposure. After the editor’s introduction, the chapters proceed in pairs. Each pair and a closing chapter cover a distinctive theme in Southeast Asia’s interactions with China.
Journal Article
South Korea's Democratic Decay
Gi-Wook Shin
The Journal of Democracy ,
2020
South Korea (hereafter Korea) is following global trends as it slides toward a “democratic depression.” Both the spirit of democracy and actual liberal-democratic standards are under attack. The symptoms of democratic decline are increasingly hard to miss, and they are appearing in many corners of Korean society, the hallmarks of zero-sum politics in which opponents are demonized, democratic norms are eroded, and political life grows ever more polarized.
Journal Article
Future Projection of the Health and Functional Status of Older People in Japan: A Multistate Transition Microsimulation Model with Repeated Cross‐sectional Data
Megumi Kasajima, Hideki Hashimoto, Sze‐Chuan Suen, Brian Chen, Hawre Jalal, Karen Eggleston, Jay Bhattacharya
Health Economics ,
2020
Accurate future projections of population health are imperative to plan for the future healthcare needs of a rapidly aging population. Multistate‐transition microsimulation models, such as the U.S. Future Elderly Model, address this need but require high‐quality panel data for calibration. We develop an alternative method that relaxes this data requirement, using repeated cross‐sectional representative surveys to estimate multistate‐transition contingency tables applied to Japan's population.
Commentary
After COVID-19: Rebooting Business in China
Jennifer Choo, Jean C. Oi, Christopher Thomas, Xue (Xander) Wu
2020
To explore how business leaders and entrepreneurs in China responded to the COVID-19 lockdown and how they’re planning for the future, the China Program conducted a survey in coordination with the Stanford Center at Peking University and Stanford Business School alumni Christopher Thomas and Xue (Xander) Wu.
Commentary
疫情之后: 企业的重振与美中经济关系前景
Jennifer Choo, Jean C. Oi, Christopher Thomas, Xue (Xander) Wu
2020
To explore how business leaders and entrepreneurs in China responded to the COVID-19 lockdown and how they’re planning for the future, the China Program conducted a survey in coordination with the Stanford Center at Peking University and Stanford Business School alumni Christopher Thomas and Xue (Xander) Wu.