Chun Kit (Andy) Chung

My path to becoming an economist is quite unconventional. I started formally studying Economics only after entering the workforce, having completed my full-time education in another field. While working a full-time job, I pursued an undergraduate degree in Economics through distance learning from LSE and University of London, and later obtained a master’s degree in Economics part-time at University of Hong Kong. I continued my academic pursuit by earning a PhD in Economics part-time at Chinese University of Hong Kong. After completing my PhD, I continued working in industry for three more years before transitioning to academia as a lecturer at my alma mater in 2019. In 2021, I joined the University of Reading. I have also been a Fellow of Global Labor Organization since 2026. 

I am an applied microeconomist with a passion for using simple price theory to explain human behaviour and testing these ideas with real-world data. I find it fascinating to interpret the world through this lens and am particularly interested in questions that extend beyond the traditional boundaries of Economics. My current research interests include beauty, parenting, sleep, child development, household structure, labour earnings, and football (soccer).