Wei Kong
Office Address
Department of Economics Email: [email protected]
University of Missouri Alternative Email: [email protected]
14 Professional Building Phone: +1(573)818-5476
909 University Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Missouri, May 2018 (Expected)
M.A., Economics, University of International Business and Economics, June 2013
B.S., Economics, Qufu Normal University, June 2011
Dissertation
“Essays on Empirical Models of Retirement”
Dissertation Supervisor: Professor Shawn Ni
Areas of Specialization
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Policy, Economics of Education
Awards and Honors
The Norman Bowers Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2017
Professional Presentation Travel Award, University of Missouri, 2017
Summer Research Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2017
Clay J. Anderson Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2016
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2012
Publications
Wei Kong (with Yanhui Fan and Yang Chen), “Analysis of Driving Factors of Short-term Foreign Debt Growth in China’’, 2014, Journal of International Trade (国际贸易问题), 113-124 (in Chinese)
Working Papers
Peer Effects on Public School Teachers’ Retirement Decisions, 2017
Effects of Pension Rule Changes on Timing of Retirement Decision, 2017
Work in Progress
Wei Kong (with Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Weiwei Wu), Pension Rule Changes and Teachers’ Retirement: An Analysis on Missouri Administrative Data
Wei Kong (with Shawn Ni), A Sequential Probit Model for Employees’ Retirement Decisions
Wei Kong (with David Kaplan), Statistical Discrimination and Employers’ Learning for Productivity of Young Economics Faculty in Public Universities
Conference Presentations and Seminars
Asian Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Hong Kong, June 2017
“Peer effects on Public School Teachers’ Retirement Decisions”
China Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Wuhan, June 2017
“A Sequential Probit Model for Employees’ Retirement Decisions”
Teaching Assistant
Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
Principles of Macroeconomics, Spring 2014 – Fall 2015, Fall 2016
Research Assistant
A Project on Statistical Discrimination and Employer Learning for Publication (Under supervision of Professor David Kaplan), Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Research Assistant at the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center (EPARC), University of Missouri, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Software Skills
FORTRAN, STATA, SAS, Matlab, R, LaTeX
Reference
Professor Shawn Ni (Advisor)
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 882-3161 University of Missouri
Professor Michael Podgursky
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 884-7741 University of Missouri
Professor David Kaplan
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 884-8005 University of Missouri
Department of Economics Email: [email protected]
University of Missouri Alternative Email: [email protected]
14 Professional Building Phone: +1(573)818-5476
909 University Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Missouri, May 2018 (Expected)
M.A., Economics, University of International Business and Economics, June 2013
B.S., Economics, Qufu Normal University, June 2011
Dissertation
“Essays on Empirical Models of Retirement”
Dissertation Supervisor: Professor Shawn Ni
Areas of Specialization
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Policy, Economics of Education
Awards and Honors
The Norman Bowers Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2017
Professional Presentation Travel Award, University of Missouri, 2017
Summer Research Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2017
Clay J. Anderson Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2016
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2012
Publications
Wei Kong (with Yanhui Fan and Yang Chen), “Analysis of Driving Factors of Short-term Foreign Debt Growth in China’’, 2014, Journal of International Trade (国际贸易问题), 113-124 (in Chinese)
Working Papers
Peer Effects on Public School Teachers’ Retirement Decisions, 2017
Effects of Pension Rule Changes on Timing of Retirement Decision, 2017
Work in Progress
Wei Kong (with Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Weiwei Wu), Pension Rule Changes and Teachers’ Retirement: An Analysis on Missouri Administrative Data
Wei Kong (with Shawn Ni), A Sequential Probit Model for Employees’ Retirement Decisions
Wei Kong (with David Kaplan), Statistical Discrimination and Employers’ Learning for Productivity of Young Economics Faculty in Public Universities
Conference Presentations and Seminars
Asian Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Hong Kong, June 2017
“Peer effects on Public School Teachers’ Retirement Decisions”
China Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Wuhan, June 2017
“A Sequential Probit Model for Employees’ Retirement Decisions”
Teaching Assistant
Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
Principles of Macroeconomics, Spring 2014 – Fall 2015, Fall 2016
Research Assistant
A Project on Statistical Discrimination and Employer Learning for Publication (Under supervision of Professor David Kaplan), Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Research Assistant at the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center (EPARC), University of Missouri, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Software Skills
FORTRAN, STATA, SAS, Matlab, R, LaTeX
Reference
Professor Shawn Ni (Advisor)
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 882-3161 University of Missouri
Professor Michael Podgursky
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 884-7741 University of Missouri
Professor David Kaplan
Email: [email protected] Department of Economics
Phone: (573) 884-8005 University of Missouri