Chunbei Wang

Academic Employment and Affiliations

         Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, 2023 -

  Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2022 - 2023

  Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2016 - 2022

         Associate Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, 2016

  Assistant Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, 2013 - 2016

         Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2008 - 2013

  Fellow, Global Labor Organization, 2018 - now

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Texas at Dallas,  2004 - 2008

M.S., Applied Economics, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002 - 2003

B.A., International Finance, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 1997 - 2001

Awards and Honors

2023 Presentation Award, ASHE session "Entrepreneurship Among Hispanics and Other Minorities" during SEA meetings.

2022 Invited Panelist, Great Resignation and Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation.

2020 Merrick Foundation Teaching Award (university-wide award) at University of Oklahoma.

2018 Kuznets Prize, “Knot Yet: Minimum Marriage Age Law, Marriage Delay, and Earnings," Journal of Population Economics

2005-2006 Vibhooti Shukla Fellowship, University of Texas at Dallas

2002-2005 Graduate Assistantship, University of Texas at Dallas

Research Interests

Labor: Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Immigration, Discrimination, Family

Public: Environmental Policy, Immigration Policy

Publications

1. "Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival" (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cristina Borra) Journal of Population Economics, 37:22, 2024. [link]  

2. “Immigration Enforcement and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Magnus Lofstrom), ILR Review, 75:5, 1189-1214, 2022.  [link] 

3. "Immigrant Entrepreneurs", (with Magnus Lofstrom), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. 2022. [link]

4. “Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo), Journal of Public Economics, 190, 104242, 2020. [link] 

5. “Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self-Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.38:4, 944-977,  2019.  [link]

6. "September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants" (with Magnus Lofstrom), Eastern Economic Journal,  46: 5–33, 2020    [link]

7. “Immigrants and Entrepreneurship” (with Magnus Lofstrom), 2019, IZA World of Labor [link]

8. "Knot Yet: Minimum Marriage Age Law, Marriage Delay, and Earnings" (with Le Wang),  Journal of Population Economics, 30:3, 771-804, 2017 [link]  2018 Kuznets Prize winner

9. “The Impact of 9/11 on Self-Employment Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Immigrants”, International Migration Review, 52:430-457, 2018 . [link]

10. “Do EPA Regulations Affect Labor Demand?  Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry”, (with Merve Cebi, Wayne Gray, and Ronald J. Shadbegian), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68:1, 188-202, 2014.[link]

11. "Employer-Provided Health Insurance and  Labor Supply of Married Women" (with Merve Cebi), Eastern Economic Journal, 39, 493-510, 2013. [link]

12. “The Effects of 9/11 on Intermarriage between Natives and Immigrants to the U.S.” (with Le Wang),  Review of Economics of the Household, Vol.10, No.2, pp.171-192, 2012. [link]

13. “Language Skills and the Earnings Distribution among Child Immigrants” (with Le Wang), Industrial Relations, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 297-322, 2011. [link]

14. “Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership” (with Magnus Lofstrom), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 29, pp.197-227, 2009. [link]

15. “Did 9/11 Affect Hispanic-Americans’ Self-Employment Entry and Exit Decisions” (with Magnus Lofstrom), International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 30 No. ½, pp.176-87, 2009 [link]

16. “Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints” (with Magnus Lofstrom), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2007. [link]

Grant

"The Uncertain Future of DACA and its Impact on Program Beneficiaries" (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), UCLA Latino Applied Policy Research Award, 2023-2024, $25,000.

Select Working Papers and Work in Progress

1. "Intermarriage Amid Immigration Status Uncertainty: Evidence from DACA and its Termination Threat" (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes). IZA Discussion Paper No. 16548. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

2. “Self-Employment and Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrants 1980 – 2016” (with Magnus Lofstrom).

3. "The Growth of Hispanic Entrepreneurship and Undocumented Immigrants" (with Le Wang).

4. “The Uncertain Future of DACA and its Impact on Program Beneficiaries” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes). 

5. “Assessing the Heterogeneous Causal Impact of Immigration on Natives' Wages: A Machine Learning Approach” (with Le Wang). 

6. “The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Business Dynamics in Houston, Texas” (with Simon Parker and Danny Chung).

7. "Minority and Gender Bank Loan Mispricing" (with William Bradfod and Magnus Lofstrom).