Hanchen Jiang

Welcome! My name is Hanchen Jiang.  I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of North Texas.  I obtained my Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 2020, and an M.A. at Vanderbilt University in 2014. 

I specialize in Real Estate and Urban Economics, Health Economics, and Household Finance, with a particular focus on these topics: (1) Housing Affordability, (2) Housing and Urban Sustainability, and (3) Economic Mobility and Inequality.  

My research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including Regional Science and Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.

Email: Hanchen.Jiang@unt.edu Google Scholar SSRN

Updates:

• "Making the Most of Coresident Data: Credible Evidence on Intergenerational Mobility with Sibling Correlation" is Accepted at Journal of Development Economics.

• "Does Rent Regulation Affect Tenant Unemployment? Evidence from New York City" is now 2nd round R&R at Journal of Urban Economics.

• "Housing Affordability and Rent Control: The Case of Elderly Tenants" is now R&R at Urban Studies.

• New Manuscript "When Illness Strikes Home: The Impact of Severe Health Shocks on Homeownership" (with Xun Bian)

• "Do Immigrants Equally Benefit from Rent Control?" is published at Real Estate Economics. 

• "Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India" is now R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.