Latest Updated: May 2012 CURRICULUM VITAE SHUAIZHANG FENG ADDRESS Shuaizhang Feng Room 715, Building of Economics School, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 111 Wuchuan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200433 China Tel: 8621-65903487 Email: shuaizhang.feng@gmail.com EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor (July 2008 - Present), School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (On leave between Sept. 2008-Sept. 2010) Postdoctoral Research Associate (September 2008 September 2010), Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Research Fellow, IZA (since December 2008). Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (July 2006 June 2008) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University (2006) Dissertation Committee Chair: Professor Lawrence M. Kahn M.A. in Economics, George Washington University (2001) M.A. in Finance, Fudan University (1997) B.A. in Accounting, East China University of Technology (1994) RESEARCH FIELDS Labor Economics; Applied Micro-econometrics; Education; Chinese Economy; Climate Migration PUBLICATION IN ENGLISH Feng, Shuaizhang, Yingyao Hu. Misclassification errors and the underestimation of U.S. unemployment rates. American Economic Review, forthcoming. Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore. Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data Review of Economics and Statistics 94(2), 2012, 371-388. (Lead Article) 1
Chen, Yuanyuan, Shuaizhang Feng. Parental Education and Children s Wages: Evidence from China. Frontiers of Economics in China 6(4), 2011, 568-591. Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore. Trends in United States Income Inequality Using the Internal March Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring. Journal of Economic Inequality 9, 2011, 393 415. Jenkins, Stephen P., Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Jeff Larrimore. Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 174, part 1, 2011, 63-81. Feng, Shuaizhang, Alan B. Krueger, Michael Oppenheimer. Linkages Among Climate Change, Crop Yields and Mexico-US Cross-border Migration Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(32), 2010, 14257-14262. Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, and Jeff Larrimore. Improving imputations of top incomes in the public-use Current Population Survey by using both cell-means and variances. Economics Letters 108, 2010, 69-72. Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen Jenkins. Using a P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Public Use Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults. The Review of Income and Wealth 55(1), 2009, 166-185. Feng, Shuaizhang. Longitudinal Matching of Recent Current Population Surveys: Methods, Non-matches and Mismatches. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33(4), 2008, 241-252. Larrimore, Jeff, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Laura Zayatz. Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007). Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33(2-3), 2008, 89-128. Feng, Shuaizhang and Richard V. Burkhauser. Generalized Percentile Ratios as Robust Measures of Labor Earnings Inequality. International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies 1(2), 2008, 117-125. Feng, Shuaizhang, Richard V. Burkhauser and J.S. Butler. Levels and Long-Term Trends in Earnings Inequality: Overcoming Current Population Survey Censoring Problems Using the GB2 Distribution, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 24(1), 2006, 57-62. Feng, Shuaizhang. Rationality and Self-control: The Implications for Smoking Cessation. Journal of Socio-economics 34, 2005, 211-222. Feng, Shuaizhang. Detecting errors in the Current Population Survey: A Matching Approach. Economics Letters 82(2), 2004, 189-194. Burkhauser, Richard V., J.S. Butler, Shuaizhang Feng, Andrew J. Houtenville. Long Term Trends in Earnings Inequality: What the CPS Can Tell Us, Economics Letters 82(2), 2004, 295-299. 2
Feng, Shuaizhang. The Longitudinal Matching of Current Population Surveys: A Proposed Algorithm. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 27(1-2), 2001, 71-91. WORKING PAPERS IN ENGLISH Feng, Shuaizhang, Michael Oppenheimer, Wolfram Schlenker. Climate Change, Crop Yields and Internal Migration in the United States. NBER working paper w17734. January 2012. Feng, Shuaizhang. Identification and statistical inference using matched CPS data, with an application to U.S. poverty dynamics. Feng, Shuaizhang, Bingyong Zheng. Cherry Picking in Labor Market with Imperfect Information. Previously IZA Discussion Paper No. 4309. (http://ftp.iza.org/dp4309.pdf), July, 2009. Feng, Shuaizhang, Bingyong Zheng. Imperfect Information, On-the-job Training and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle: Theory and Evidence. Memo. Feng, Shuaizhang, Donald O. Parsons. Insuring Displaced Workers: Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design. IZA Discussion Paper No. 2238 (http://ftp.iza.org/dp2238.pdf), 2006. GRANTS AND SURVEY PROJECTS 2007-2011: Principal Investigator, Sichuan Rural Household and Migration Surveys (http://www.princeton.edu/~shuaizha/sichuan.htm). Partly Funded by: Institute of Advanced Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; University of Essex; 3ie. 2009-2011: Principal Investigator, Evaluating the Academic Performances of Migrants Children: Evidence from Shanghai. (http://www.princeton.edu/~shuaizha/shanghai.htm). Funded by National Science Foundation of China. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS 2012 The International Conference on Climate Change, Recycling of Agricultural resources, Technology Improvement and Agriculture Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, January 2012, Wuhan, China. (invited speaker) 2011 China Economic Annual Conference, December 2011, Shanghai, China. (invited discussant) The CAER-IFPRI international annual conference, October 2011, Chengdu, China. (paper presenter) Conference on the education of migrant children in China (Organizer), September 17 th, 2011. SHUFE. NORFACE Migration Conference: Economics Change, Social Challenge. University College London (Paper presenter), London, UK, April 2011. 2010 Conference on Chinese Economy, Fudan University (Discussant), October 2010 3
2009 Princeton Energy Institute Lunch Seminar. December 2009 Russell Sage Foundation. (invited talk) October 2009 Conference Inequality: New Directions, Ithaca, NY, USA. (paper presenter) September 2009 University of Essex, UK (invited talk) June 2009 Society of Labor Economists Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA. (paper presenter) May 2009 George Washington University, USA (invited talk) April 2009 2008 U.S. Census RDC annual conference, Duke University, Durham NC, USA. (paper presented by a coauthor) October 2008 International Empirical Workshop on Economics, Shanghai, China (paper presenter and organizer) May 2008 Chinese Economists Society (CES) annual conference, Tianjin, China. (paper presenter) April 2008 Tsinghua University (invited talk) April 2008 2007 China Economics Association Annual Conference, Shenzhen, China. (paper discussant) December 2007 The International Conference on Labor Economics, Xiamen, China. (paper presenter) December 2007 New York University Shanghai Center. (invited talk) June 2007 Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. (invited talk) May 2007 12 th Society of Labor Economists Meeting in Chicago, USA. (paper presenter) May 2007 Fudan University (invited talk) April 2007 2006 The International Conference on Labor Economics, Xiamen, China. (paper presenter) December 2006 Conference on Survey Data Quality in China, Shanghai, China. (organizer) December 2006 CCER, Beijing University. (invited talk) October 2006 U.S. Census RDC annual conference, New York, USA. (paper presenter) September 2006 The International Conference on Anti-Poverty and Regional Cooperation, Chengdu, China. (paper presenter) August 2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate: Labor Economics (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2010) Social and Economic Data (Spring 2007, Spring 2008), Advanced Labor Economics (Spring 2011) Undergraduate: Introduction to Econometrics (Fall 2006, Fall 2010), Topics in Labor Economics (Fall 2007) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (Oct. 2007-) Referee: Review of Economics and Statistics (2004); Journal of Socio-economics (2004, 2007), Economics Letters (2007), Climate Change Letters (2009), Economic Development and Cultural Change (2009), Journal of Economic Inequality (2010), Journal of Income 4
Distribution (2010), Review of Income and Wealth (2010), Journal of Development Economics (2010), Journal of the Association of American Geographers (2010), Global Environmental Change (2011, 2012), International Journal of Manpower (2011), Frontiers of Economics in China (2011), China Economic Review (2011), Research in Labor Economics (2012), Journal of Population Economics (2012). REFERENCES References are available upon request. 5