报告主题：空气质量如何影响我们的幸福与认知能力？
报告人：陈希，耶鲁大学公共健康系助理教授
时间：12月3日（周四）下午2:00-4:00
地点：启真大厦1213
陈希博士介绍如下：
Xi Chen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Public Health (Health Policy), of Global Health, of Economics, and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. He is a faculty fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, a fellow at the Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative, a research fellow at the Yale Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, and a faculty advisor of the Yale-China Association. His areas of interest involve Health, Labor, Development Economics, and Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Methods. Specifically, his research focuses on the following areas: 1) fetal and early childhood development; 2) population aging and pension policies; 3) social network interactions; and 4) happiness and individual well-being.
Chen's work has been recognized through numerous awards, including the Best China Paper from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) China Sessions (2011), the George Warren Award from Cornell University (2012), the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the AAEA (2013), the MacMillan Faculty Research Award at Yale University (2013), James Tobin Summer Research Award at Yale Economics Department (2014), and an award from the National Institute of Health / National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA) (2015). His research has attracted public media attention, such as The Macmillan Report, The Economist, The New York Times.
Chen is an active member in the core research team designing and conducting the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) longitudinal household survey in rural western China. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), an associate editor of China Health Review, a reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals, a reviewer of the U.S. National Sciences Foundation (NSF), and is on the planning committee of the China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS). He has served as a consultant for United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), an external reviewer for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and an affiliate of Cornell Population Center (CPC) and Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) (both Poverty Project and Judgment Project).
Chen obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Cornell University.
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