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Zichen Deng

Research Fellow

University
University of Amsterdam
Research field
Empirical Microeconomics
Interests
Applied Microeconomics, Development, Environmental Economics, Health

Biography

Zichen Deng is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. His research interests lie in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on environmental economics, health, and development. His recent projects examine the impacts of cloud seeding in China and the expansion of paid partner leave in the Netherlands.

List of publications

Axbard, S. and Deng, Z. (2024). Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(1):213--252.

Deng, Z. and Lindeboom, M. (2022). A bit of salt, a trace of life: Gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children Journal of Health Economics, 83:1--22.

Deng, Z. and Lindeboom, M. (2022). Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall, and later-life health Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(4):771--787.