His doctoral dissertation, "Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1950," won an award from the American Association of Agricultural Economics as the best academic paper of 1969 in the entire country.
他的博士論文「農工兼資本移動問題﹘﹘一八九五到一九六○年間台灣個案研究」，一舉榮獲一九六九年美國農經學會全美論文獎。