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department of development economics
job title
assistant professor, department of development economics
telephone
86 010-62753423
cczhuang@pku.edu.cn
address
room 321, school of economics, peking university, beijing, china
educational background
university of washington: ph.d. economics, 2022; m.a. economics, 2018
peking university: master of finance, 2016; b.s. mathematics, 2015; bachelor of economics, 2014
work experience
2022 – present, assistant professor, school of economics, peking university
research fields
population health and development economics, with a focus on:
1) health, wellbeing, and vulnerable populations, and
2) economic development (e.g., human capital investment, rural revitalization, and urban vitality).
empirical industrial organization
english publications
13. hongbing xu, castiel chen zhuang*, vanessa oddo, espior bwenge malembaka, et al. "maternal preconceptional and prenatal exposure to el niño-southern oscillation levels and child mortality: a multi-country study", nature communications, 15: 6034, jul 2024.
12. jiayi liu, yanbin li, yanhan xu, castiel chen zhuang*, yang hu, and yue yu. "impacts of built environment on urban vitality in cultural districts: a case study of haikou and suzhou", land, 13(6): 840, jun 2024.
11. saizi xiao, and castiel chen zhuang*. "measuring and decomposing the multidimensional financial wellbeing in malaysia", empirical economics letters, 23(4): 125-140, apr 2024.
10. zhihan cui, lu liu, and castiel chen zhuang*. "the impact of the removal of zero-covid policies on subjective well-being: evidence from a digital world", economics letters, 229: 111189, aug 2023.
9. castiel chen zhuang, jessica jones-smith, et al. "maternal precarious employment and child overweight/obesity in the united states", preventive medicine, 169: 107471, apr 2023.
8. vanessa oddo*, castiel chen zhuang, et al. "association between precarious employment and bmi in the united states", obesity, 31(1): 234-242, jan 2023. (editors' choice)
7. hongbing xu, castiel chen zhuang*, et al. "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, dec 2022.
6. 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, oct 2022.
5. 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.
4. vanessa oddo*, castiel chen zhuang, et al. "changes in precarious employment in the united states: a longitudinal analysis", scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 47(3): 171-180, apr 2021.
3. 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, feb 2019.
2. xuezheng qin, castiel chen zhuang*, and rudai yang. "does the 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.
1. 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, apr 2016.
recent working papers
• "heterogeneous impacts of trade liberalization on export entry and training: a multi-destination perspective", with chujian shao and qiliang chen. (r&r. presented in the weai's 99th annual conference. to be presented in 2024 icee at psu altoona)
• "can rising urban house prices actually limit the outward fdi by firms in a home country? a story from china", with feng yu, ning li, and jingwei chen. (r&r)
• "nonlinear impacts of climate anomalies on oil palm productivity", with nur nadia kamil, saizi xiao, sharifah nabilah syed salleh, and hongbing xu. (r&r)
• "exploring rural revitalization strategies using multi-source data: experience from changshu and taicang", with yanbin li, xingyao song, leilei sun, jiayi liu, and meng yang. (submitted)
• "examining the zero-markup drug policy in china: a structural approach", with qifan huang and zhentong lu. (submitted. presented in the 2022 sufe-jinan io conference, 2022 aea/assa annual meeting, 2021 china meeting of econometric society, weai's 2021 virtual international conference, weai's 96th annual conference)
• "sex education, dating behaviors, and fertility intentions: evidence from a classroom field experiment in a chinese university", with zhihan cui, fangwen lu, xuezheng qin, and jinxian yao. (presented in the liaoning university international conference 2024)
• "is younger better? the impacts of early promotion on chinese politicians and regional economic development", with yunxuan zhu.
• "health insurance design with heterogeneous preferences", with julie shi and xi wang. (presented in the 2022 aria annual meeting, weai's 98th annual conference)
• "live-commerce product assortment and competition: evidence from live-streaming platform celebrities", with ying-chin chen, qifan huang, and yushi wang. (presented in the 2021 informs annual meeting)
• "the lost generation: long-term impacts of cultural revolution on schooling and income", with yunxuan zhu and yiqian zheng.
• "do joint ventures innovate more? micro-evidence from china", with jingwei chen, bing li, and feng yu.
• "heterogeneous policy impacts: a modal regression approach", with ying-chin chen.
