Zhuo (Adam) Chen is a Senior 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 Policy Research, Analysis, and Development Office, the Office of Associate
Director for Policy, CDC.

Articles

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Geographically weighted regression bandwidth selection and spatial autocorrelation: an empirical example using Chinese agriculture data (with Seong-Hoon Cho and Dayton M. Lambert), Applied Economics Letters (2010)

This research note examined the performance of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) using two calibration methods....

 

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Examining the Role of Gender in Career Advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with Kakoli Roy and Carol A. Gotway Crawford), American Journal of Public Health (2010)

During the past decade, efforts to promote gender parity in the healing and public health...

 

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Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-Parametric Bootstrapping (with Daneil Monchuk and Yosef Bonaparte), China Economic Review (2010)

In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China's...

 

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Factors associated with differences in mortality and self-reported health across states in the United States (with Kakoli Roy, 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...

 

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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...

 

Contributions to Books

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Prevention Effectiveness (with Kakoli Roy and Anne Haddix), Principles of Public Health Practice (2009)
 

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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

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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...