Assistant Professor
Department of Economics

Office:    Liberal Arts Room 375
Telephone: 508-910-6639
Email:     cwang@umassd.edu

Spring 2012 Office Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11 - 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300

Chunbei Wang joined the Department of Economics at UMass Dartmouth in Fall 2008. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Dallas in August 2008. Her fields of specialization are Labor Economics and Public Economics, with current research focusing on the Economics of Immigration, Self-Employment, and Education.

Education

Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 2008

M.S.  University of Texas at Dallas, 2003

B.A.  Jinan University, China,       2001

Publications

Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints (with Magnus Lofstrom), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2007, Volume 613, No. 1, pp. 32-46.

Mexican-American Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership (with Magnus Lofstrom), forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics.

Did 9/11 Affect Hispanic-Americans' Self-Employment Entry Decisions (with Magnus Lofstrom), forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower.

Working Papers

The Impact of 9/11 on the Self-Employment Decisions of Immigrants, 2007

The Impact of 9/11 on Immigrant Entrepreneurs, 2008

The Return to Host Country Education for Immigrant Entrepreneurs, 2008

September 11 and Immigrants' Labor Market Transitions, 2009

Reassessing the Effect of Language Skills on Earnings (with Le Wang), 2009