1. Healthcare Policies
Working Paper
"Examining the Zero-Markup Drug Policy in China: A Structural Approach", with Qifan Huang and Zhentong Lu
- Previously circulated as "Vertical Separation and Price Negotiation: A Case Study of China's Lipid-Lowering Drug Industry"
- Presented in the 2022 SUFE-JinanIO Conference (previously known as China-VIOS), 2022 AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting, 2021 China Meeting of Econometric Society, WEAI's 2021 Virtual International Conference (presented by coauthor; check out the session information here), and WEAI's 96th Annual Conference (check out the session information here)
- Slides (Jun 16, 2022)
"Health Insurance Design in a Tiered Medical System", with Julie Shi and Xi Wang
- Previously circulated as "Understanding Deductible and Reimbursement Maximum: A Study of Rural China's Tiered Medical System" and "Understanding Deductible and Reimbursement Maximum in a Tiered Medical System"
- To be presented in the 2022 ARIA Annual Meeting
Published Paper
Yi Chen, Julie Shi*, and Castiel Chen Zhuang. "Income-dependent Impacts of Health Insurance on Medical Expenditures: Theory and Evidence from China." China Economic Review, 53: 290-310, February 2019.
2. Human Capital
Working Paper
"Trade Liberalization and Skill Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of APTA on Chinese Manufacturers", with Chujian Shao and Qiliang Chen
- Slides (Sep 3, 2021)
Published Paper
Qifan Huang, and Castiel Chen Zhuang*. "Training, Productivity, and Wages: An Investigation of China's Manufacturing Enterprises in a Privatization Era." Economics of Transition, 30(2): 269-288, Apr 2022.
Xuezheng Qin, Castiel Chen Zhuang*, and Rudai Yang. "Does One-Child Policy Improve Children's Human Capital in Urban China? A Regression Discontinuity Design." Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(2): 287-303, May 2017.
Xuezheng Qin*, Tianyu Wang, and Castiel Chen Zhuang. "Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Its Impact on Income Mobility: Evidence from China." China Economic Review, 38: 306-321, April 2016.
3. Occupational Environment
Working Paper
"Associations of Climate Variability Driven by El Niño-Southern Oscillation with Excess Mortality and Related Medical Costs in Chinese Elderly", with Hongbing Xu, Xinpeng Guan, Xinghou He, Rongshan Wu, Tong Wang, Qinghong Zhang, and Wei Huang
- R&R at Science of the Total Environment
- Manuscript not available
"Association Between Maternal Precarious Employment and Child Overweight/Obesity", with Vanessa Oddo and Jessica Jones-Smith
- Manuscript not available
"Association between Precarious Employment and BMI in the United States", with Vanessa Oddo, Jessica Jones-Smith, Anjum Hajat, Jerome Dugan, Sarah Andrea, and Trevor Peckham
- R&R at Obesity
- Manuscript not available
Published Paper
Qifan Huang, Saizi Xiao, and Castiel Zhuang*. "The Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 in a Two-Sided Market: Evidence from a Live-Streaming Platform." Applied Economics, forthcoming.
- Presented in the NABE TEC 2020 Virtual Poster Sessions
Vanessa Oddo*, Castiel Zhuang, Sarah Andrea, Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Trevor Peckham, Daniel Jacoby, and Anjum Hajat. "Changes in Precarious Employment in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis." Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 47(3): 171-180, April 2021.
4. Poverty Alleviation
Work in Progress
"Assessing the Economic Impact of Temporary Basic Income (TBI) in Malaysia", with MIER and UNDP
5. Miscellaneous
Working Paper
"Market Competition and Product Assortment in a Social E-commerce Platform: A Deep Learning Approach", with Ying-chin Chen and Qifan Huang
- Previously circulated as "The Causal Impact of Market Competition on Product Variety: A Deep Neural Network Representation Learning Approach"
- Presented in the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting (presented by coauthor; check out the session abstract here)
- Manuscript available upon request
"Heterogeneous Policy Impacts: A Modal Regression Approach and Its Application", with Ying-chin Chen
- Manuscript available upon request