Siyu Chen

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at the Institute of Economics and Social Research (IESR), Jinan University. I am also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Population Economics.

Research Interests:

Book Chapters:

The Invisible Syllabus: How Mobile Apps Erode Human Capital (with Barwick Panle Jia, Fu Chao, and Teng Li) in Book "Social Stratification", edited by David B Grusky and Michelle Jackson, Routledge Publisher, 2026.

Publications:

- Media coverage: The Economist, VoxChina, VoxEU, Guardian, 计量经济学圈

How Competition Shapes Peer Effects: Evidence from a University in China (with Zihan Hu), forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics.

-Media coverage: 经管科学研究，学说平台，经管科讯

Associations Between Stock Market Fluctuations and Stress-related Emergency Room Visits in China (with Sumit Agarwal, Haonan He, Xinfei Huang, and Teng Li), Nature Mental Health, (2024): 1-7

-Media coverage: Bloomberg, Medical Xpress, Tencent News, Sina News, IFENG

Air Pollution, Student Health, and School Absences: Evidence from China (with Chongshan Guo and Xinfei Huang), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92(2018), 465-497.

-Media coverage: JEEM高引论文，香樟经济学术圈，JEEM主编面对面

The Effect of Air Pollution on Criminal Activities: Evidence from the NOx Budget Trading Program (with Teng Li), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 83(2020), 103528.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Laborer Protection Policy on Occupational Injuries Caused by Extreme Heat in a Large Subtropical City of China''(with Yanan Sun et al.) , Environmental Research, 186(2020), 109532.
Retail Price Behaviors: Evidence from 15 Cities in Yangtze River Delta (with Xinfei Huang and Teng Li), Management World (管理世界), 2014 (1): 8-15. (Leading article)
The Paradox of Law of One Price in Chinese Urban Board Effects (with Xinfei Huang and Teng Li), The Journal of World Economy (世界经济), 2014 (11): 100-118.
- The Impact of Urban Green Space on Enterprise Total Factor Productivity: Labor Force Based Perspective (with Caiping Wang, Yulin Zhong and Zhimin Chen), forthcoming at Systems Engineering—Theory & Practice (系统工程理论与实践 )

In progress:

Digital-Footprint Evidence of Insider Information Propagation in Social Networks, revision requested, Review of Finance (with Sumit Agarwal, Xinfei Huang, and Teng Li).
Smart Money: Innate Ability, Education, and Unequal Return to Education（with Sumit Agarwal, Yi Chen, Hongbin Li, and Teng Li).
Marginal Admission to Elite Universities: Trade-offs and Long-Term Consequences (with Yi Chen, Hongbin Li, Teng Li, and Bin Xie) .
Timing the Weather: Institutional Adaptation and the Long-Term Returns to Human Capital (with Jinyang Ren, and Siyan Tang).
Headteacher, Younger-than-35 Eligibility and Distortion in Student Performance (with Kaixin Liu and Sen Xue).
Non-linear Pay, Learning and Productivity (with Richard Freeman, Wei Huang, and Teng Li).
Peer Influence and Mental Health (with Barwick Panle Jia, Job Boerma, and Teng Li).
Phone Usage and Productivity.
Long-term Peer Effects on Consumption and Financial Investments.

Grants:

2026 - 2029 The General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI
2021 - 2023 The Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI
2026 - 2029 The General Program of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, PI
2026 - 2030 The Key Project of Social Science Foundation of China, Co-PI
2025 - 2028 The General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Co-PI
2022 - 2025 The General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Co-PI

Teaching and awards:

2025 Second Prize, Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award
2024 Best Teaching Award, IESR at Jinan University
2022 First Prize, 6th Guangdong Provincial College Young Teachers Teaching Competition
2022 The Most Popular Teacher, IESR at Jinan University

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