Assistant Research Fellow
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Yating Chuang
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Position
Fields
Human Capital, Resource, and Environmental Economics
Professional Experience
National Taipei University, Economics, Assistant Professor, 2019-2022
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2016-2018
Occidental College, Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor (Part-time), 2017 & 2019
College of the Holy Cross, Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor 2015-2016
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2016-2018
Occidental College, Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor (Part-time), 2017 & 2019
College of the Holy Cross, Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor 2015-2016
Education
Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S.A.
Expertise
Economic Development、Experimental Economics、Environmental Economics
Journal Articles
- “Stability of Experimental and Survey Measures of Risk, Time, and Social Preferences: A Review and Some New Results” with Laura Schechter, Journal of Development Economics, 117: 151-170, 2015 [most cited JDE article published since 2015]
- “Social Networks in Developing Countries” with Laura Schechter, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 7: 451-472, 2015
- “The Effect of Earning an Associate Degree on Community College Transfer Students’ Performance and Success at Four-Year Institutions” with Xueli Wang and Bo McCready, Teachers College Record, 119: 1-30, 2017
- “Climate Variability, Rainfall Shocks, and Farmers’ Income Diversification in India,” Economics Letters, 174: 55-61, 2019
- “Climate Change and Economics 101: Teaching the Greatest Market Failure” with John Chung-En Liu and Yoram Bauman, Sustainability, 11:5, 2019
- “Who wears a mask? Gender differences in risk behaviors in the COVID- 19 early days in Taiwan” with John Chung-En Liu, Economics Bulletin, 40(4): 2619-2627, 2020 [featured in United Daily News, GTV, CTi News, GTV]
- “Are Residential Energy Efficiency Programs Effective? An Empirical Analysis in Southern California” with Magali Delmas and Stephanie Pincetl, accepted at Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists [featured in UCLA Newsroom, UCLA Anderson Review]
Conference Papers
- 2022 : HKUST Asia Impact Evaluation Conference, Modelling Workshop (AcademiaSinica), Taiwan Econometric Society Annual Conference (National Taiwan University),
- 2017 : 19th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, USC 10th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Energy Economics
- 2013 : UW–Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Midwest International Economic Development Conference