Recently, Dr. Cheng Chen from Lehigh University has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Chen is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics.
His basic information is as follows:
Homepage: http://www.lehigh.edu/~chc509
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Lehigh University, May 2014 (expected).
B.S. International Business (minored in Automation), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2009.
Fields of Interest
Primary: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Public Economics, Family Economics, Development Economics
Working Papers
1. Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, and Robert J. Thornton, "The effect of household technology on obesity and weight gain among Chinese female adults: Evidence from China's home appliances going to the countryside policy," under review at Journal of Human Capital.
2. Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsienming Lien, and Jin-Tan Liu, "The long-term health effects of in utero and early childhood malaria exposure: Evidence from the malaria eradication program in Taiwan."
3. Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, and Lea Gimenez Duarte, "The inter-generational effects of the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on children's anthropometric outcomes."
Work in Progress
1. Lea Gimenez Duarte, Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, /Can we stop half the sky from falling? The effect of parental education on the sex ratio."
2. Cheng Chen, "Are sons causing more family stress? Evidence from China's one-child policy."
