Choon Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Economics. Choon obtained his PhD in 2010 from the University of California San Diego, where he was a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Before joining the Department of Economics in October 2011, Choon worked at the World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington DC.

Choon is interested in a wide range of topics in the areas of the economics of education, labour economics, development economics, public economics, and health economics. He often uses field or natural experiments as well as observational data to study the determinants of the education, health, and labour market outcomes of individuals in both developed and developing countries. These countries include Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. Choon has also provided technical and policy assistance to various governments. He has published in international refereed journals, such as the Review of Economics and statistics, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Population and Development Review, Sociology, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics of Education Review.

Related Links: 

• Research papers on the Social Science Research Network
• Personal site

ECC4860 Applied Economics Research Paper (2012-2015)

ECC2400 Current Issues in Applied Microeconomics (2016-present)