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Peking University

Guanghua School of Management

Department of Applied Economics

Columbia University-Economics

NBER

Econ Department,
UCLA
   

Wanchuan Lin

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Department of Applied Economics
Guanghua School of Management
Rm. 325, Guanghua School of Management  Bldg.
2
Beijing 100871, China

Tel: + 86-10-62753820

Email: wlin@gsm.pku.edu.cn
Homepage:http://www.wanchuanlin.org

 

EMPLOYMENT
  2010 - present Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China
  2007 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China

EDUCATION
June 2007 Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Committee: Janet Currie (chair), Sandra Black, Enrico Moretti and Jinyong Han
  June 2002 B.A., Public Finance, National Chenchi University, Taiwan, Valedictorian

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Health Economics, Labor and Demographic Economics

PUBLICATIONS
“Chipping Away at Health: More on the Relationship Between Income and Child Health, ” Health Affairs, 26(2), 2007, Pages 331-344. (with Janet Currie)
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“Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?” Journal of Health Economics, 27(6), 2008, Pages 1567-1581. (with Janet Currie and Sandra Decker)
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“Why has the Health Inequality among Infants in the US Declined? Accounting for the Shrinking Gap”, Health Economics, 18(7), 2009, Pages 823-841.
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“The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Rural China: Does More Coverage Mean More Service and Better Health?”
 Health Economics ,18(S2), 2009, Pages S25-S46. (with Xiaoyan Lei)
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“The Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance: a Landmark Reform Step towards Universal Insurance Policy in China” Health Economics , 18(S2), 2009, Pages 83-96. (with Gordon Liu and Gang Chen)
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《父母的男孩偏好程度对于儿童学习状况的影响及其作用渠道—基于甘肃农村基础教育调查的实证研究》,与秦雨合写,《经济科学》,2010年4月
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《中国城镇居民基本医疗保险实施与评价评价》,与刘国恩、熊先军、陈钢合写,即将发表于《经济学报》
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PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
  “Demand for Sons- Evidence from Taiwan”, July 2010, under third revision for Economic Development and Culture Change
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"The Unwanted: Underlying Mechanisms for Unfavorable Life Cycle Outcomes", (with Juan Pantano), December 2007
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"Migration and Child Gender: Are fathers from girl families more likely to become migrant workers? - Evidence from China", (with Zhao Yaohui)
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"The Effect of Patient Knowledge and Involvement on Outpatient Cost and Service- Evidence from an Experiment in China
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"The Impact of Parental Son Preference on Children’s Educational Attainments and Its Mechanism", (with Qinyu), January 2010
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WORKING PAPERS
"Earning Functions and Rates of Return – Evidence from China", (with Yuyu Chen), Oct 2008

"Rising Price of Husband? Evidence of Foreign Brides in Taiwan", (with Juan Pantano and Yinchi Wang)
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
  2010-2011 Crosswise Tasks of Ministry of Public Health, “Management of Chronic Diseases in China Rural Areas” ¥1200,000 (Researcher)
  2010-2012 National Natural Science Foundation of China (seed grant), “Financing, Payment and Compensation Mechanism in the New Rural Cooperative Medical System: Focus on Health Management” (No. 70903003). Role: PI., ¥180,000 (Director)
  2009-2010 Crosswise Tasks of Ministry of Public Health, “The Construction of Equalized New Rural Medical System”¥1200,000 (Researcher)
  2006-2007 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
  1999-2002 President’s Awards, Six Times
Awarded to the top 5% students in each department

PRESENTATIONS
  Dec 2009 Five Star Economics Forum, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
  Dec 2009 China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
  June 2009  7th World Congress on Health Economics, International Health Economics Association ( IHEA) , Beijing, China
  May, 2009 Population Association of America (PAA), Detroit, Michigan
  December, 2008 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  December, 2008 Taiwan Economic Association, Taipei, Taiwan
  April, 2008 National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
  April, 2008 Chinese Economist Society, Tian Jin, China
  December, 2007 Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  Sep, 2007 The Seventh China Young Economics Forum, Zhejiang
March, 2007 Population Association of America (PAA)
  July, 2006 NBER Summer Institute, Children’s Workshop
  July, 2006 Western Economic Association International (WEAI)
  June, 2006 North American Summer Meeting of The Econometric Society
  May,2006 Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
  April, 2006 Western Social Science Association Annual Conference (WSSA)
  March, 2006 Population Association of America (PAA)

REFEREE
  Journal of Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, China Economic Review, Pacific Economic Review, Value in Health, South China Journal of Economy, Health Policy, Value in Life

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Graduate

 

 

Advanced Microeconomics

 Fall, 2007

 

Applied Econometrics

Spring, 2008

 

Labor Economics

Fall, 2007; Fall, 2008; Spring, 2010

 

 

 

MBA

 

 

 Managerial Economics

Fall, 2008; Fall, 2009

 

 

 

Undergraduate

 

 

Labor Economics

Spring, 2009; Spring, 2010

 


PERSONAL
  Born: Taiwan, 1980
Languages: Mandarin, English

REFERENCE
JANET CURRIE (Dissertation Chair)
  Professor and Chair
  Dept. of Economics, Columbia University
  Tel: 212-854-4520
  Email: jc2663@columbia.edu
Homepage:
http://www.econ.columbia.edu/currie/
       
  SANDRA BLACK
  Professor
Dept. of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Tel: 310-825-5665
  Email: sblack@econ.ucla.edu
Homepage: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/black
       
  ENRICO MORETTI
  Professor
  Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  Tel: 510-642-6649
  Email: moretti@econ.berkeley.edu
Homepage: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~moretti
      Last updated: Mar 2010
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