1. Health Economics

Working Paper
"Examining the Zero-Markup Drug Policy in China: A Structural Approach", with Qifan Huang and Zhentong Lu 
"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"
  • 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. Environment and Health

Working Paper
"Association Between Maternal Precarious Employment and Child Overweight/Obesity", with Vanessa Oddo and Jessica Jones-Smith
  • ​Manuscript under revision
Published Paper
Vanessa Oddo*, Castiel Chen Zhuang, Jessica Jones-Smith, Anjum Hajat, Jerome Dugan, Sarah Andrea, and Trevor Peckham. "Association between Precarious Employment and BMI in the United States." Obesity, forthcoming.​​
Hongbing Xu, Castiel Chen Zhuang* Xinpeng Guan, Xinghou He, Rongshan Wu, Tong Wang, Qinghong Zhang, and Wei Huang. "Associations of Climate Variability Driven by El Niño-Southern Oscillation with Excess Mortality and Related Medical Costs in Chinese Elderly." Science of the Total Environment, 851: 158196, December 2022.
Vanessa Oddo*, Castiel Chen 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.​

3. Labor/Development Economics

Work in Progress
"Assessing the Economic Impact of Temporary Basic Income (TBI) in Malaysia", with MIER and UNDP
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 and Institutional Change, 30(2): 269-288, Apr 2022. ​
秦雪征，庄晨*，杨汝岱：“计划生育对子女教育水平的影响——来自中国的微观证据”，《经济学(季刊)》，2018年第3期，第897-922页。​
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.​
夏庆杰*，孙祁祥，庄晨：“中国经济转型时期性别工资差异分析”，《社会科学战线》，2015年第10期，第38-55页。​
秦雪征*，周建波，辛奕，庄晨：“城乡二元医疗保险结构对农民工返乡意愿的影响——以北京市农民工为例”，《中国农村经济》，2014年第2期，第56-68页。
  • 全文转载于人大复印报刊资料《统计与精算》2014年第4期​

4. Miscellaneous (e.g., Empirical IO, Trade)

Working Paper
"Trade Liberalization and Skill Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of APTA on Chinese Manufacturers", with Chujian Shao and Qiliang Chen 
"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
Published Paper
Qifan Huang, Saizi Xiao, and Castiel Chen Zhuang*. "The Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 in a Two-Sided Market: Evidence from a Live-Streaming Platform." Applied Economics, 54(49): 5670-5689, October 2022.