Yen-Chien Chen
Yen-Chien Chen
November, 2014
Personal and Contact Information
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Eduction:
PhD, Economics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (June 2009)
MS, Economics, National Taipei University, Taiwan (June 1998)
BA, Economics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, (June 1996)
Experience:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National Chi Nan University (Aug 2009~)
Visiting student in NBER and Economic Department of MIT, USA (July 2007- May 2008)
Research Interests :
Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics and Family Economics
Teaching Courses:
Economics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics and Family Economics
Dissertation:
Title: Three Essays of the family issues and children's education
Advisor: Professor Jin-Tan Liu
Journal Papers:
1. “The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education – First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links’’ American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2009 (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu). [SSCI]
2. “Impacts of Parental Displacement on Child birth weight,” Academia Economic Papers, 2013, 41(2):183-213 (with Ching-Fu Chang and Jin-Tan Liu). [TSCI]
3. “Impacts of Displacement on Divorce” Taiwan Economic Review, 2014, forthcoming (with Jin-Tan Liu and Ling-Mao Wang). [TSCI]
Working Papers:
1. “The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement” (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu), NBER working paper.
2. “Is the ‘Quarter of Birth’ Endogenous? Evidence from One Million Siblings in Taiwan” (with Elliott Fan and Jin-Tan Liu), NBER working paper.
3. “Less Parental Resources, Less Possibility to go to College? Effects of Parental Divorce and Job Loss by using Taiwan Administrative Data” (with Jin-Tan Liu)
4. Spillover Effect of Having a Boy
5. Spill-over Effect of Social Science Park on Individual and Family income.
Conference Papers:
1. “Less Parental Resources, Less Possibility to go to College? Effects of Parental Divorce and Job Loss by using Taiwan Administrative Data” Institution of Society, Academia Sinica, July, 2014.
2. “Less Parental Resources, Less Possibility to go to College? Effects of Parental Divorce and Job Loss by using Taiwan Administrative Data” Korea and the World Economy XIII conference，Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Jun, 2014.
3. “Parental income shocks and child outcome— Do parental divorce and displacement decrease child education?” 2012 APEA (Asia-Pacific Economic Association) annual meeting, June, Singapore. (with Jin-Tan Liu)
4. "Effects of Family Composition on Investment in Human Capital" 2011 AMES (Asian Meeting of Econometric Society), August, Seoul Korea (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu and Hsienming Lien)
5. “Do Parental Divorce and Displacement Matter”Empirical Economic Conference of Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, June, 2011.
6. “Separate Effects of Sibling Gender and Family Size on Child’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes : Methods and First Evidence” 2010 Econometric Society World Congress, August, Shanghai China (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu and Hsienming Lien).
7. “The Effect of Sibling Sex Composition on Women’s Mortality and Education” 2009 Taiwan Econometrics Annual Meeting, Taipei (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu.)
8. “ Separate Effects of Sibling Gender and Family Size on Educational Achievements – Method and First Evidence from Population Birth Registry,’’ Taiwan Empirical Economics Annual Meeting (Tenth), May, Chia-Yi (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu.)
9. “The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education – First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links’’ American Economic Association 2009 Annual Meeting (AEA). (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu).
10. Separate Effects of Sibling Gender and Family Size on Educational Achievements – Method and First Evidence from Population Birth Registry,’’ Taiwan Economic Association 2009 Annual Meeting. (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu).
11. The Impact of Sibling Sex Composition on Educational Attainment: A Unique Natural Experiment by Twins Gender Shocks,” American Economic Association 2008 Annual (AEA). (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu).
12. “We Prefer Sons But Does It Matter? Evidence Using Matched Administrative Data from Taiwan,” Society of Labor Economists 2007 Annual Meeting. (with Stacey H. Chen and Jin-Tan Liu).
Program and Grant
2010.01.01～2011.07.31 NSC Grant for “The Impacts of Parental Divorce and Displacement on Child’s Education” ( NSC 99-2410-H260-001-MY2)
2011.08.01~2012.07.31 NSC Grant for “Spill-over Effect of Social Science Park on Individual and Family income” (100-2410-H-260-028-)
2012.08.01~2013.07.31 NSC Grant for “Is Son Better than Daughter? Impacts of Child Gender on Parental Divorce and Parental Death.”(101-2410-H-260-011-)
2013.08.01~2014.07.31 NSC Grant for “Birth Spacing and Child Education”(102-2410-H-260 -004 -)
2014.08.01~2015.07.31 MOST Grant for “Effects of Maternal Education on Fertility and Child Education—Instrumental Estimations”(103-2410-H-260 -004 -)
Honors
1. The Best Ph. D. Dissertation of Taiwan Economic Association in 2009.
2. An honor member of The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (2009/06)
3. National Science Council grant for Ph. D. dissertation (2008/08-2009/07)
4. National Science Council grant for graduate students researching abroad (2007/07-2008/05)
Refereeing
Economics and Human Biology
Pacific Economic Review
Taiwan Economic Review
Academia Economic Papers