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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant to Prof. David M. Bishai, Health Economics, Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Joseph E. Harrington, Game Theory, Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant to Prof. James Lake, Econometrics, Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Yingyao Hu, Econometrics, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jonathan Wright, Statistical Inference, Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant to Prof. M. Ali Khan, Mathematical Methods in Economics, Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Tiemen Woutersen, Econometrics, Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Barbara M. Morgan, Economics of Discrimination, Spring 2009 Research Assistant to Prof. Elena Braverman, May 2005-August 2005 FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS Graduate Fellowship, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University - 2008 to present. Graduate Fellowship, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, the University of Hong Kong - 2006 to 2008. MIGOTTI-MCCOMBE Award, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary. Undergraduate Merit Award, University of Calgary. Actuarial Examination Prize, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary. MISC. INFO Programming: R, S+, C++, SAS, MATLAB, L ATEX, Microsoft Office Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent), Cantonese (fluent) REFERENCES Professor Robert Moffitt (Primary advisor) Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Email: moffitt@jhu.edu, Phone: (410) 516-7611 Professor Yingyao Hu Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Email: yhu@jhu.edu, Phone: (410) 516-7610 Professor Tiemen Woutersen (Teaching) Department of Economics, University of Arizona Email: woutersen@email.arizona.edu, Phone: (520) 621-4281 2
Essays on College Transfer in U.S. and Children’s Welfare in China Xiaochen Xu The Determinants and Consequences of College Transfer (Job Market Paper) Idevelopand estimateatwo-periodability-learningstructuralmodeltoanalyzethedeterminants and consequences of college transfer. Students make college entry and transfer decisions under different financial constraints and uncertainty about their abilities. In period 1, students choose between community colleges and universities, and in period 2, they make transfer decisions. I estimate the structural parameters of the model using data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09), with simulated maximum likelihood. I further examine the extent to which the effectiveness of the transfer function of community colleges can be improved with three counterfactual experiments. They included increasing university tuition costs, eliminating transfer costs, and increasing academic preparedness. The experiments suggest that transfer costs are the main barrier to college transfer. The Impact of Labor Migration on Children’s Health: Evidence from Rural China (in progress) Migration, which frequently results in family separations, is widely known as one of the mainwaysofalleviatingpovertyindevelopingcountries. ThisstudyusestheChinaHealth and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) to identify the impact of parents’ migration on children’s health outcomes in rural China. The measurements of children’s health outcomes are height, weight, weight-for-height, height-for-age Z-score, and nutrient intake (consumption of calories and protein). To identify the effect of changes in parental migration on changes in child outcomes, I instrument changes in migration status with county level historical average migration rates. The Impact of a Ban on Sex-selective Abortion on the Nutrient Intakes and Care of Girls in China: Evidence from a Policy Change (in progress) Due to the preference for boys, the sex ratio at birth (between male and female births) in mainland China reached 117:100 in the year 2000. In order to normalize the sex ratio, the government began an action plan consisting of ten policies in year 2005, which outlawed sex-selective abortion. Under the government policy, the number of unwanted girls has increased, causing more cases of infanticide, and slower death by long term neglect and withholding of resources for girls. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I analyze the possible impact on girls’ welfare by these government actions in China. The welfare is analyzed based on the nutrient intake (consumption of calories and protein), the length of breastfeeding, and the number of nursing hours that parents spend on children weekly. Due to data limitation, this study focuses only on children under age 3. 1
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