Ying Chen University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Economics Amherst,MA Office: Phone: Email: Gordon Hall 310 225-301-4878 [email protected] Education Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2015(expected). M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2008. B.A. Economics, Shanghai International Studies University, 2007. Dissertation PhD Dissertation: Three Essays on Sustainable Development in China: Social, Economic and Environmental Aspects MA Thesis: What’s in a Name: The Importance of Nomenclature and the Struggles to Depathologize Homosexuality in Contemporary China Research Interests Economic Development, Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Chinese Economy Publications Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2014 Are Chinese Workers Paid the Correct Wages? Measuring Wage Underpayment in the Chinese Industrial Sector, 2005-2010 (with Zhun Xu and Minqi Li), forthcoming. Review of Radical Political Economics Online version available at: http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/08/20/0486613414542780.abstract 2013 Class Struggle and Economic Fluctuations: VAR Analysis of the post-War U.S. Economy, (with Deepankar Basu and Jong-seok Oh), International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 27 No.5 September. Online version available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2012.760065 2012 Living Wage, Overtime Work and China’s Sustainable Economic Development (with Zhongjin Li, Hao Qi, Zhun Xu), China Review of Political Economy (in Chinese). Book Chapters 2013 "Financial Crises 1980s-2010" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History edited by Melvyn Dubofsky, Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0199738815; ISBN-13: 978-0199738816. Ying Chen 2 Teaching Experience Instructor in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Intermediate Microeconomics (Online, Summer 2014) Workshops on Input-Output Modeling for graduate-level Applied Econometrics (2010-2013) Intermediate Macroeconomics (Online, Fall 2013) Introduction to Political Economy (Online, Summer 2013) International Session at Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute (Summer 2011) Money and Banking (Summer 2010) Teaching Assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Industrial Organization (Fall 2010) Introductory Microeconomics (2008-2010) Research Experience Research Assistant to Professor David Kotz, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2014 Responsibilities included: Research on topics regarding economic crisis in the US; economic crisis theory; the social structure of accumulation theory; and the nature of neoliberal institutions, policies, and ideas. Intern at United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, Development Cooperation Policy Branch. Supervisor: Ms. Caroline Lombardo. Spring 2014. Responsibilities included: Drafted sections on redefining ODA, private philanthropic foundations, climate finance, South-South Development Cooperation, etc, for International Development Cooperation Report 2014 and 2014 SecretaryGeneral Report on Trends and Progress in International Development Cooperation. Research Assistant to Professor Robert Pollin on Green Economy research projects at Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2010-2013 Responsibilities included: Data collection, literature survey and modeling for the UNIDO/GGGI/PERI project, published as Global Green Growth: Clean Energy Industrial Investments and Expanding Job Opportunities in 2014, and the CERES/PERI project, published as New Jobs–Cleaner Air: Employment Effects Under Planned Changes to the EPA’s Air Pollution Rules in 2011. Honors and Grants Political Economy Research Institute Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014-2015 Ying Chen 3 Selected Presentations and Workshops Summer School on "Green Industry: Moving Towards the Industry of the Future" organized and sponsored by the UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development in cooperation with the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2012 "Green Economy in China" at Environmental Working Group, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012 "Rural Finance in China" and "Class Struggle and Economic Fluctuations: VAR Analysis of the postWar U.S. Economy" at Eastern Economics Association, Boston, 2012 Presentation at UMass-New School Graduate Student Workshop, "Class Struggle and Economic Fluctuations: VAR Analysis of the post-War U.S. Economy", 2011 Professional Services Steering committee member at Center for Popular Economics, 2012-2013 Co-chair of the Economics Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) at UMass Amherst, 2010-2011 Vice President and Treasurer at China Studies Association at UMass Amherst, 2009-2011 References Robert Pollin Dissertation committee co-chair Distinguished Professor of Economics Co-director of Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts Amherst Tel: 413-577-0819 Email: [email protected] David Kotz Dissertation committee co-chair Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst Tel: 413-545-0739 Email: [email protected] Deepankar Basu Dissertation committee member and project supervisor Assistant Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Tel: 413-545-6359 Email: [email protected] Caroline Lombardo Supervisor during internship Senior Economic Affairs Officer Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations Tel: 917-367-9212 Email: [email protected]