Dr. Elliott Fan earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 2006. He then joined the Social Policy Analysis, Evaluation and Research (SPEAR) Centre at the Australian National University, where he was a research fellow from 2006 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University. Dr. Fan’s research spans applied microeconomics, family economics, labor economics, and economic history. His recent work follows two main trajectories: (1) examining the institutional and cultural factors that shaped the comparatively favorable status of Taiwanese women in the postwar era, particularly relative to their Japanese and Korean counterparts; and (2) drawing on extensive archival data from the colonial period (1905–1945) to study the phenomenon of “missing women” in early 20th-century Taiwan.