Zhuo (Adam) Chen is an Economist at The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He earned his B.S. (1996) and M.Mgt. (1999) in Management Science from the University of Science and Technology of China, M.S in Statistics (2002) and Ph.D. in Economics (2004) from Iowa State University. His research focuses on Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics, and China’s Agriculture. His research on these topics had appeared in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economics Letters, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, China Economic Review, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Health Economics, and Health Services Research. Before joining CDC, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, The University of Chicago. He has been a Board Director (2007-2008) of the Chinese Economists Society and a Steering Committee Member (2008-2009) of the CDC Health Economics Research Group. He is with the CDC Office of Workforce and Career Development.
Articles
Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States (with Roy Kakoli, Anne C. Haddix, and Stephen B. Thacker), Health Policy (2010)
Objective Recent studies indicate continuing health disparities across geographic units in the US. This paper...
Economic Perspective on Strategic Human Capital Management and Planning for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Carol A. Gotway Crawford and Kakoli Roy), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
An organization's workforce-or human capital-is its most valuable asset. The 2002 President's Management Agenda emphasizes...
Perspectives on Public Health Workforce Research (with W. Thomas Summerfelt, Kakoli Roy, Zhuo Chen, David O. Meltzer, and Stephen B. Thacker), Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Workforce and Career Development is committed...
The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States (with David O. Meltzer), Working Paper Series of The National Bureau of Economic Research (2009)
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as...
Lifestyles, Demographics, Dietary Behavior, and Obesity: A Switching Regression Analysis (with Steven T. Yen and David B. Eastwood), Health services research (2009)
Objectives. To investigate the effects of lifestyles, demographics, and dietary behavior on overweight and...
Contributions to Books
Prevention Effectiveness (with Kakoli Roy and Anne Haddix), Principles of Public Health Practice (2009)
Measuring county-level technical efficiency of Chinese agriculture: a spatial analysis (with Wallace E. Huffman), China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects (2006)
Unpublished Papers
Technical notes for "calculating concentration index with repetitive values of the welfare variable" (with Kakoli Roy) (2008)
This technical note provides the proof of Theorem 1 in “Calculating concentration index with repetitive...
Other
CONCINDC: Stata module to calculate concentration index with both individual and grouped data (2007)
oncindc computes the concentration index (CI) for micro data with a categorical welfare variable or...