Curriculum Vitae

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Academic Appointment and Affiliation:  

       Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Miami, July 2016 - present

        Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, 2016 - present

        Postdoctoral Scholar, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and Center for the Economics of Human Development, University of Chicago, May 2013 - June 2016 

Research Interests:  

        Labor Economics, Public Economics, Household Finance, Applied Economics. 

Education: 

        Ph.D. Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2013

        M.A. Economics, China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, China, 2007

        B.A. Economics, Fudan University, China, 2004

Award:

        Provost's Research Award, University of Miami, 2017-2018. 

Publications: 

        3. Income Inequality, Tax Policy, and Economic Growth, with Siddhartha Biswas and Indraneel Chakraborty. Economic Journal, Volume 127, issue 601, May 2017, Pages 688-727. 

       2. Inequality in Human Capital and Endogenous Credit Constraints, with James J. Heckman. Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 25, April 2017, Pages 4-36. 

        1. The Real Effects of Financial (Dis)integration: A Multi-Country Equilibrium Analysis of Europe, with Indraneel Chakraborty, Hans Holter, and Serhiy Stepanchuk.  Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 85, January 2017, Pages 28-45. 

Working Papers: 

        The Determinants of Rising Inequality in Health Insurance and Wages, July 2015.  R&R Review of Economic Studies. 

        A Dynamic Model of Health, Addiction, Education and Wealth, with James J. Heckman. New version coming soon! 

         On the Welfare Cost of Consumption Fluctuations in the Presence of Memorable Goods, with Dirk Krueger and Andrew Postlewaite, March 2018.  

Referee: 

        Journal of Political Economy; Review of Economic Studies; American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; Journal of the European Economic Association; International Economic Review; European Economic Review; Economic Inquiry; Journal of Human Resources;  Journal of Human Capital; LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Professional activity: 

        2017        6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences, Closing Panel Discussion: What Could and Should We Do About Inequality? Panelists: James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden, Sir Christopher Pissarides, and Rong Hai. Moderator: Torsten Persson. [Video]

        2016        I was the co-organizer for the 2016 Asian Family in Transition Conference in Guangzhou, China. For more information, please visit the conference website here. 

Presentations: 

        2017:

University of Bonn

Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting

6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences

        2016:

University of Iowa

University of Rochester

Washington University in St. Louis 

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy*

Cowles Summer Conference at Yale University 

Royal Economic Society Conference at University of Sussex

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) 

        2015:

University of Chicago Economics

University of Chicago Harris

University of Miami Economics

University of Miami Finance

Florida International University 

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Peking University  

Royal Economic Society Conference at University of Manchester (1+1*)

Fourth SOLE/EALE World Meeting

World Congress of Econometric Society (x2)

Human Capital and Inequality Conference at UChicago  

National Tax Association's Annual Meeting 

        2014: 

Cornell University 

University of Miami

Annual Health Econometrics Workshop at UToronto

Cowles Summer Conference: Structural Microeconomics at Yale University

Conference on the Affordable Care Act and the Labor Market organized by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago [Video (2nd speaker)]

Fifth Biennial Meeting of the American Society of Health Economists at USC

Launch Event of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at Uchicago [Video]

Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting

        2013: 

Ohio State University

Syracuse University

University of Chicago

University of South Florida

North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society

Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting

        2012: 

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

University of Pennsylvania