Dr. Xuan Chen joined the School of Labor and Human Resources after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Miami in the U.S.A. in 2013. She has been working on the partial identification approaches of treatment effect models in causal inference. She is also interested in applied econometric research in the area of labor economics.

Selected Publications

Zhang, W. and Chen, X. (2023) “Does Social Class Matter to Health? —the Evolution of Health Inequality in Early 21st Century China”  Critical Public Health , 33(1),13-24.

Ao, X., Chen, X., and Zhao, Z. (2022) “Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children’s Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China”  China Economic Review , 71, 101734.

Blanco, G., Chen, X., Flores, C. and Flores-Lagunes, A. (2020). “Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance”  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics , 38(4), 901-920.

Chen, X., Flores, C., and Flores-Lagunes, A. (2018). “Going beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training” Journal of Human Resources , 53(4)，1050-1099.

Nawakitphaitoon, K., Chen, X., and Ge, Y. (2016), “State and Non-state Earnings Differentials over Time in China’s Urban Labor Market: Evidence from the Urban Household Survey (1994-2007)”  Journal of Labor Research , 37, 287-316.

Chen, X. and Flores, C. (2015). “Bounds on Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection and Noncompliance: The Wage Effects of Job Corps”  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics , 2015, 33(4),523-540.

Flores, C. and Chen, X. (2018). Average Treatment Effect Bounds with an Instrumental Variable: Theory and Practice,  Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd , ISBN:978-981-13-2016-3.

Publications in Chinese:

Ao, X., Chen, X. and Zhao, Z. (2019). “The Intergenerational Transmission of Personality Traits: Evidence on Locus of Control and Trust”  Studies in Labor Economics , 2019, 7(3), 29-55.