is an Associate Professor of Economics at Singapore Management University and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a PhD, MPhil, and BSc in Economics from University College London, the University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, respectively. Ho was previously awarded a SMU Shirin Fozdar Fellowship and an ADB-IEA Innovative Policy Research Award. She is the editor of a of the Review of Economics of the Household on Intergenerational Transfers and Time Use.
Ho's research interests lie at the intersection of public policy and family economics with a particular focus on household production using empirical and applied theoretical tools. Recent research works tackle the evaluation and design of child care subsidy programs, the linkages between old age support and parental investments in children, and improving human capital through education interventions. Recent projects benefit from external grants from Le Fonds d’Innovation pour le Développement (FID), The World Bank, The Abdul Latif Jameet Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE).
Selected publications:
Strategic Parent Meets Detached Child? Parental Intended Bequest Division and Support from Children, Demography, 2022.
Efficient Child Care Subsidies, joint with , American Economic Review, 2020.
Optimal Disability Insurance with Informal Child Care, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019.
Child's Gender, Parental Monetary Investments and Care of Elderly Parents in China, Review of Economics of the Household, 2019.
Welfare-to-Work Reform and Intergenerational Support: Grandmothers' Response to the 1996 PRWORA, Journal of Marriage and Family, 2015.