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Chunbei Wang

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Chunbei Wang
321-A Hutcheson Hall
250 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
chunbeiwang@vt.edu
540-231-1674

Dr. Wang joined the department on Sept. 1, 2023, and her areas of expertise and research interests include:

  1. Areas of expertise: Labor economics; entrepreneurship and small business; economics of human migration and immigration
  2. Research interests: Immigration, discrimination, entrepreneurship, self-employment, family, and environment. 

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Texas at Dallas, Jan. 2004 - Aug. 2008
  • M.S., Applied Economics, University of Texas at Dallas, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2003
  • B.A., International Finance, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Sept. 1997 - Jul. 2001
  • Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, 2023 – present
  • Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2022 – 2023
  • Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2016 – 2022
  • Associate Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, 2016
  • Assistant Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, 2013 – 2016
  • Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2008 – 2013

Awards

  • 2022 Invited Panelist, Great Resignation and Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation
  • 2020 Merrick Foundation Teaching Award, University of Oklahoma
  • 2018 Kuznets Prize, “Knot Yet: Minimum Marriage Age Law, Marriage Delay, and Earnings”
  • 2005-2006 Vibhooti Shukla Fellowship, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University
    of Texas at Dallas
  • 2002-2005 Graduate Assistantship, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas

 

Selected:

“Immigrant Entrepreneurs” (with Magnus Lofstrom), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann, Springer Nature, 2022, p.1-32 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_97-1.


“Immigration Enforcement and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Magnus Lofstrom), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939211057765.


“Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo), Journal of Public Economics, 190: 104-242, 2020.

“Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self-Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 38:4, 944-977, 2019.

“The Impact of 9/11 on Self-Employment Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Immigrants”, International Migration Review, 52:2, 430-457, 2018.

“Knot Yet: Minimum Marriage Age Law, Marriage Delay, and Earnings” (with Le Wang), Journal of Population Economics, 30:3, 771-804, 2017. [2018 Kuznets Prize Winner]

“Do EPA Regulations Affect Labor Demand?  Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry”, (with Merve Cebi, Wayne Gray, and Ronald J. Shadbegian). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68:1, 188-202, 2014.

Courses taught

Undergraduate level:

  • Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Econometrics
  • Labor Economics
  • Economics of Discrimination
  • Economics of Race and Gender
  • Capstone Projects

Ph.D. level:

  • Labor Economics
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