Chunbei Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Telephone: 508-910-6639
Email: cwang@umassd.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
Chunbei Wang joined the Department of Economics at UMass Dartmouth in Fall 2008. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas in August 2008. Her fields of specialization are Labor Economics and Public Economics, with current research focusing on the Economics of Immigration, Self-Employment, and Education.
Education
Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 2008
M.S. University of Texas at Dallas, 2003
B.A. Jinan University, China, 2001
Publications
Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints (with Magnus Lofstrom), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2007, Volume 613, No. 1, pp. 32-46.
Mexican-American Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership (with Magnus Lofstrom), forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics.
Did 9/11 Affect Hispanic-Americans' Self-Employment Entry Decisions (with Magnus Lofstrom), forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower.
Working Papers
The Impact of 9/11 on the Self-Employment Decisions of Immigrants, 2007
The Impact of 9/11 on Immigrant Entrepreneurs, 2008
The Return to Host Country Education for Immigrant Entrepreneurs, 2008
September 11 and Immigrants' Labor Market Transitions, 2009
Reassessing the Effect of Language Skills on Earnings (with Le Wang), 2009
Last Updated On: 1/7/09
