Maoyong Fan is a Professor of Economics at Ball State University. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2009 and joined Ball State in the same year. His research fields include  environmental economics, health economics, financial economics, and labor economics, and applied microeconomics for public policy. His academic research has been published in peer-reviewed journal such as American Economic Review, PNAS, Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, British Medical Journal, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Financial Review. He received the 2019 University Research Award, multiple college research awards, and several best paper awards. His teaching experience include different levels of microeconomics, health economics, and labor economics.