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Zichen Deng
University of Amsterdam
z.deng at uva.nl

Welcome to my homepage! I am an assistant professor in economics at the Amsterdam School of Economics of the University of Amsterdam. My research interests include environmental economics, health economics, and development economics. My latest work focuses on the efficiency and consequences of environmental policy.

Publications

Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: mental well-being and the social norm of work
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming
with Coen van de Kraats, Titus Galama, and Maarten Lindeboom
link online appendix usc dornsife
Informed Enforcement: lessons from pollution monitoring in China
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(1), 2024
with Sebastian Axbard
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A Bit of Salt, A Trace of Life: gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation
Journal of Health Economics, 83, 2022
with Maarten Lindeboom
link online appendix 中文简介
Early-life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-life Health
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(4), 2022
with Maarten Lindeboom
link online appendix

Working Papers

Who Takes Paid Paternity Leave -- and When?
with Coen van de Kraats
The Consequences of Cloud Seeding in China
with Michael Greenstone and Shaoda Wang
Land Rights Insecurity and Persistent Talent Misallocation Over Generations
with Yunyi Jin and Yun Xiao
Curriculum and Selection into the Bureaucracy: ideology, information, or strategic choices
with Sebastian Axbard
Moving to Cleaner Skies: age-specific effects of exposure to pollution on health and human capital
with Aline Bütikofer and Kjell Salvanes
Revealed Preference or Forced to Leave: internal migration responses to pollution information in China
R&R at EJ
with Ling Zhou
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In Progress

Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in China
with Weixiang Luo, Erik Plug, and Jia Yu
The Societal Benefits and Costs of Paid Paternity Leave: employer, worker, and family responses
with Coen van de Kraats (Microdata Access Grant (MAG) 2023) (AUF Impact Grant 2025)
On the Identification of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Renewable Energy Investment and (In)equal Air Quality Improvement
with Harim Kim