Susan Chen
- Specialty Areas:
Health Economics, Labor Economics, Economic Demography.
- Education:
Cornell University (B.A.), University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S.), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.).
- Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
Dr. Chen is a health economist with a research agenda that focuses on topics in aging and nutrition. Dr. Chen’s research in aging focuses on estimating the effect of government programs such as the Social Security Disability Insurance on the early retirement decisions of prime aged men. In more recent work she has focused on modeling joint household labor supply decisions and estimating the effect of disability insurance on spousal labor supply. Dr. Chen’s work in nutrition focuses on the role of food retailers and their effect on obesity and food consumption. She has published in the Journal of Econometrics, Economics and Human Biology, the Economic Geography Journal, and the Journal of Nutrition.
Selected Publications
- “An Exploration of the Relationship between Income and Eating Behavior.” (With J. Liu and J. Binkley.) Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. Forthcoming.
- “Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There a Gender Bias?.” (With P. Bhagowalia and G. Shively.) World Development. 2011.
- “Quality of Health Care Provided at a Pediatric Nurse-Managed Clinic.” (With J. Coddington, L. Sands, N. Edwards and J. Kirkpatrick.) Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practioners. 2011.
- “Food stamp participation is associated with fewer meals away from home, yet higher body mass index and waist circumference in a nationally representative sample.” (With S. Jilcott, H. Liu, H. Duboxe, and S. Kranz.) Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2011.
- "Does Where You Live Make You Fat? Obesity and Access to Chain Grocers." (With Raymond Florax and Samantha Snyder.) Economic Geography Journal. 2011.
- “Effects and Determinants of Mild Underweight Among Preschool Children Across Countries and Over Time.” (With Priya Bhagowalia and William Masters.) Economics & Human Biology. 2011.
- “Zoning For Health: The Obesity Epidemic and Opportunities for Local Policy Intervention.” (With Raymond Florax.) Journal of Nutrition. 2010.
- “Healthcare Accessibility and Health Outcomes.” (With Brigitte Waldorf.) In A. Páez, J. Le Gallo, R. Buliung and S. Dall’Erba eds., Progress in Spatial Analysis: Theory and Computation, and Thematic Applications. Springer 2009.
- “The Work Disincentive Effects of the Disability Insurance Program in the 1990’s.” (With H. Wilbert Van der Klaauw.) Journal of Econometrics. 2008.
- “Determinants of Contraceptive Method Choice in Rural Tanzania Between 1991 and 1999” (With David K. Guilkey.) Studies in Family Planning 2003.