2012年2月，美国明尼苏达大学何晖博士正式受聘我院副教授。何晖博士是我校"经济学创新平台"建设项目2012年（第八期）海外招聘计划中引进的优秀人才，其个人基本信息如下：
Education
Degree Field Institution Year
Ph.D. Economics University of Minnesota 06/2007
M.A. Economics (Minor in Mathematics) University of Minnesota 04/2007
M.A. Economics Peking University 07/1994
B.A. Economics (with honor) Peking University 07/1992
Academic Position
08/2011-12/2011 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
08/2007-present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Major Fields of Research
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Computational Economics
Publications
“Why Have Girls Gone to College? A Quantitative Examination of the Female College Enrollment Rate in the United States: 1955-1980,” Annals of Economics and Finance, vol. 12 (2011), pp. 43-66.
“Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality,” with Zheng Liu, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 11 (2008), pp. 314-334.
Grants
2009 SSRI Research Support Fund, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, $6700.00 (PI)
2009 CIBER Interdisciplinary Research Award, University of Hawaii at Manoa, $4000.00 (Co-PI)
2008 URC Research Relations Fund, University of Hawaii at Manoa, $4500.00 (PI)
Honors and Awards
2011 URC Faculty Travel Award, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2011 SSRI Faculty Travel Award, College of Social Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2010 URC Faculty Travel Award, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2010 SSRI Faculty Travel Award, College of Social Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2009 Runner-up for Seiji Naya Award for Excellence in Research, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2009 URC Faculty Travel Award, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2009 SSRI Faculty Travel Award, College of Social Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2006 Research Travel Grant (Twice), Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Fellow, Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics, Chicago, IL
2000 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1999-2000 USC Graduate School Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Chen Dai Sun Economic Award (for Excellence in Teaching), Peking University, China
1995 GE China Fellowship (for Excellence in Economic Research), Peking University, China
1995 Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Economics, Peking University, China
1992-1993 Guang Hua Fellowship, Peking University, China
1992 Outstanding Graduate Prize for 1988-1992 Classes, Peking University, China
Teaching Experience
| 08/2007-present | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Taught Macroeconomic Theory I at PhD level, Intermediate Macroeconomics and Principle of Macroeconomics at Undergraduate level. |
| 08/2001-05/2007 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Taught Principle of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Comparative Economic Systems, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Led recitation sections in Principles of Macroeconomics and Principles of Microeconomics. |
| 09/2000-05/2001 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. TA for first year Ph.D macroeconomic core courses: Econ 505 (Professor Caroline Betts), Econ506 (Professor Selahattin Imrohoroglu). |
Research Experience
05/2001-08/2001 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Research Assistant for Professor Caroline Betts.
Professional Experience
07/1996-07/1999 Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
07/1994-06/1996 Lecturer, School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Working Papers
“Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care than Europeans?” with Kevin X. D. Huang, February 2012
“Are Recessions Good for Your Health? When Ruhm Meets GHH,” with Kevin X. D. Huang and Sandy Hung, January 2012
“Health Investment over the Life Cycle,” with Tim Halliday and Hao Zhang, May 2011 (This paper was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list, revising for resubmission to Canadian Journal of Economics)
“What Drives the Skill Premium: Technological Change or Demographic Variation?” (Previous title: “Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-Biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis,” listed in Tom Sargent’s NYU Macro Reading Group 3/10/2008) December 2011 (under review)
“A Note on Rapid Grid Search Method for Dynamic Programming Problems in Economics,” with Hao Zhang, February 2012 (listed in Tom Sargent’s NYU Macro Reading Group 9/14/2011) (under review)
“Health and Portfolio Choice in Retirement: The Impact of Ambiguity,” (Previous title: “Why the Older People Quit the Stock Market?”) with Nick Lei Guo, March 2010
Work in Progress
“Welfare Cost of Medicare,” (Preliminary draft: February 2010)
“Health and Consumption Inequality over the Life-Course,” with Jim Feigenbaum and Tim Halliday
Invited Seminars
“Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-Biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis,”
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 2006, and January 2007.
Industrial Relations Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, October 2006.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Seminar, January 2007.
Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame, January 2007.
Department of Economics, Wayne State University, January 2007.
Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 2007.
“Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality,”
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Febuary 2008.
“Health Investment over the Life Cycle,”
Department of Economics, George Washington University, April 2009.
Federal Reserve Board, May 2009.
Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2009.
Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, May 2009.
Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, June 2009.
Department of Economics, Shanghai University of Economics and Finance, June 2009.
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, October 2010.
Department of Economics and Finance, Utah State University, October 2010.
“Why the Older People Quit the Stock Market?”
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, November 2008.
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong, May 2009.
Department of Economics, Tsinghua University, June 2009.
“Welfare Cost of Medicare,”
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, June 2010.
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, June 2010.
“Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care than Europeans?”
Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, May 2011
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China, June 2011.
Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas, September 2011
Department of Economics, University of Southern California, September 2011
University of California at Riverside, October 2011
Utah State University, November 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, November 2011
University of California at San Diego, December 2011
University of California at Saint Barbara, December 2011
“Are Recessions Good for Your Health? When Ruhm Meets GHH”
Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, June 2011.
Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall Business School, University of Southern California, November 2011
Iowa State University, November 2011
Conference Presentations
“Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-Biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis,”
Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics (poster session), Chicago, July 2005.
2006 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Minneapolis, June 2006.
Sixth Villa Mondragone Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Rome, Italy, July 2006.
2007 Midwest Economic Association Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March, 2007.
2007 Midwest Macro Meetings, Cleveland, April 2007.
2007 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
“Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality,”
2006 Midwest Macro Meetings, St. Louis, May 2006.
2006 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Minneapolis, June 2006.
Far Eastern Meeting of Econometric Society, Beijing, China, July 2006.
“College Gender Gap and Gender Differences in Skill Premium,”
2007 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Durham, June 2007.
“Health Investment over the Life Cycle,”
2009 Midwest Macro Meetings, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2009.
QSPS 2009 Summer Workshop, Logan, Utah, May 2009.
2009 Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2009.
2010 Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics, Beijing, China, June 2010.
2010 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2010.
“Welfare Cost of Medicare,”
2010 Midwest Macro Meetings, East Lansing, MI, May 2010.
QSPS 2011 Summer Workshop, Logan, Utah, May 2011.
“Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care than Europeans?”
2011 Midwest Macro Meetings, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2011.
2011 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St. Louis, June 2011.
2011 Shanghai Workshop in Macroeconomics, Shanghai, China, June 2011.
“Are Recessions Good for Your Health? When Rhum Meets GHH”
2011 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, July 2011.
Session Organizer
“Macroeconomic Analysis of Health Shock,” Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2009.
“Macroeconomic Analysis of Health Risk,” Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, San Diego, July 2011.
Conference Discussant
Midwest Economic Association Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March 2007.
Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Honolulu, June 2008.
Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2009.
Conference Participation
2008 Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, Minneapolis, August 2008.
2008 Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting, Boston, July 2008.
Referee Activity
African Journal of Agricultural Research, American Economic Review, Annals of Economics and Finance (2), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, China Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Health Economics, Frontiers of Economics in China (2), Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control (2), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Journal of Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association, Econometric Society, Society for Economic Dynamics
Department Services
Co-chair, seminar committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Member, seminar committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007-2008
Member, graduate committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010,
2010-2011
Member, international macro/macro junior faculty recruiting committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at
Manoa, 2010-2011
Member, micro junior faculty recruiting committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007-2008
Member, computer committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Member, macro comprehensive exam committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008, 2009,
2010
Chair, macro comprehensive exam committee, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2011
Ph.D Supervision and Thesis Committee
Xun Xu, Ph.D student at Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the 3rd year paper committee)
Shengti (Sandy) Hung, Ph.D student at Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the 3rd year paper committee)
Shi Fu, Ph.D candidate at Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the thesis proposal and thesis
defense committee)
Hao Zhang, Ph.D candidate at Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the 3rd year paper and thesis proposal committee)
Yichao (Iris) Zuo, Ph.D candidate at Finance Department, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the thesis proposal committee)
Liang Zhang, Ph.D earned at Finance Department, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa (member of the final defense committee; first placement: University of Melbourne)
