Job Title

Assistant Professor, Department of Development Economics

 

Telephone

+86 010-62753423

 

Email

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 disadvantaged population, and

2) economic development (e.g., human capital investment, rural revitalization, and urban vitality).

Empirical Industrial Organization

 

English Publications

11. Saizi Xiao, and Castiel Chen Zhuang*. "Measuring and decomposing the multidimensional financial wellbeing in Malaysia", Empirical Economics Letters, forthcoming.

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

• "Maternal preconceptional and prenatal exposure to El Niño-Southern Oscillation levels and child mortality: A multi-country study", with Hongbing Xu, Vanessa Oddo, Espior Bwenge Malembaka, et al. (R&R)

• "Impacts of built environment on urban vitality in cultural districts: A case study of Haikou and Suzhou", with Jiayi Liu, Yanbin Li, Yanhan Xu, Yang Hu, and Yue Yu. (Under Review)

• "Heterogeneous impacts of trade liberalization on export entry and training: A multi-destination perspective", with Chujian Shao and Qiliang Chen. (Under Review. To be presented in the WEAI's 98th Annual Conference, 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)

• "Examining the Zero-Markup Drug Policy in China: A structural approach", with Qifan Huang and Zhentong Lu. (Under Review. 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)

• "Nonlinear impacts of climate anomalies on oil palm productivity", with Nur Nadia Kamil, Saizi Xiao, Sharifah Nabilah Syed Salleh, and Hongbing Xu. (Under Review)

• "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. (To be 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 and Keyan Liu.

• "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)

• "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.