Wallace K.C. Mok

Overview

Wallace K.C. Mok is an economist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His primary contribution in this wiki is as co-author of the Meyer-Mok PSID disability series: Meyer and Mok (2013) on male disability onset consequences, and Meyer and Mok (2014) on the parallel analysis for women. Together these papers constitute the most comprehensive consumption-based welfare analysis of disability in U.S. panel data, covering 44 years (1968–2011) and documenting earnings, income, consumption, time use, spousal labor supply, and marital stability for four disability groups.

Key Contributions

• Meyer and Mok (2013): Co-designed the four-group disability taxonomy (One-Time, Temporary, Chronic-Not Severe, Chronic-Severe), the Poisson fixed-effects event-study framework, and the time-use analysis that rules out home production substitution for disabled men.
• Meyer and Mok (2014): Extended the framework to women, documenting smaller income and consumption declines relative to men (women's Chronic-Severe consumption drop is −10% vs. −25% for men), a null added worker effect for husbands of disabled wives, and a novel nonlinear severity gradient in the disability-divorce relationship (Temporary and Chronic-Not Severe raise divorce hazard; Chronic-Severe does not).

Related

• Bruce D. Meyer
• Nonhealth Risk and DI Insurance Value
• Morbidity-Mortality Distinction
• Disability Insurance Program
• Added Worker Effect
• Disability and Marital Dissolution

Sources

• Meyer and Mok 2013 — Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption
• Meyer and Mok 2014 — Disabled Women and Their Economic Well-Being