CASTIEL CHEN ZHUANG 庄晨
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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.​
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​

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. ​
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.​

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.​
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。​

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
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