Department of Economics Nancy Qian Brown University Box B Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-2097 [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT Brown University Department of Economics, Assistant Professor 2005-present Faculty affiliate of Populations Studies Training Center, Brown University 2005-present
EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000-2005 Economics: Ph.D. (Advised by Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Joshua Angrist) University of Texas at Austin, Plan I Honors Program 1996-2000 BA with High Honors: Economics, Government, Mathematics and Japanese
HONORS Harvard Academy Scholars Post-doctoral Fellowship National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Social Science Research Council Fellowship for Development and Risk MIT George P. Schultz Fund
TEACHING Graduate Development Economics, Brown University Spring 2006 Population Economics, Brown University Spring 2006 Development Economics, MIT (Teaching Assistant) 2004-2005 Econometrics, MIT (Teaching Assistant) Spring 2005
RESEARCH
The Long Run Effects of Childhood Malnutrition: Evidence from China’s Great Famine (with Xin Meng, Australian National University) Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Positive Effect of Family Size on School Enrollment in China Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2010 (with Thomas Piketty, EHESS Paris-Jourdan)
Works in Progress The Intergenerational Tragedy of AIDS: Evidence from Blood Selling in China Anonymous Savings (with Daniel Paravisini, University of Columbia) Explaining High Savings Rates with Demographic Change (with Abhijit Banerjee, MIT) Estimating the Value of Private Property Rights: Evidence from China’s Urban Housing Reform (with Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School) The Railroad to Success: The effect of infrastructure on economic growth (with Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and Esther Duflo, MIT) Is Geography Behind Income Inequality in China? (with Richard Eckaus, MIT and Ashley Lester, MIT) The Impact of Immigrant Labor on Female Labor Supply and Child Quality in Hong Kong (with Hongbin Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong) Pollution (with Michael Greenstone, MIT) Who wants immigration? (with Brian Knight, Brown University)
Field Experiments Deportation in the Shadow of 9/11: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (with Jacklin Chou, MIT and Stanford University) Intellectual Property Rights and Consumer Behavior; Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (with Sylvain Chassang, MIT, and Ashley Lester, Brown) Dynamic Tournament Incentives: Evidence from Rhode Island Public Schools (with John Tyler, Brown University)
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Presentations Princeton University University of Chicago University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Harvard Business School Boston University London School of Economics University of California at Berkeley University of Maryland College Park
National Bureau of Economic (NBER) Bureau of Research for Economics and Development (BREAD) McArthur Network for Inequality World Bank Conference: China and the World Harvard East Asia Conference Social Science Research Council
Refereeing American Economic Review Economic Journal Journal of Development Economics Journal of Labor Economics Journal of Public Economics Journal of European Economics Association Review of Economic Studies
Media Voice of America Liberation (French)