The 6thApplied Economics Colloquium: Dr. Yazhen Gong
On 8thDecember, 2017, we welcome Associate Prof. Yazhen Gong to our Bi-Week AppliedEconomics Colloquium.Prof.Gong delivered a talk titledas The Mortality Impactof Fine Particulate Matter in China. Associate Prof.Yazhen GONG serves asExecutive Deputy Director of Department of Environmentand Resource Economics atSchool of Environment & Natural Resources, RenminUniversity of China. She graduatedfrom University of British Columbia, with adoctoral degree in natural resourceeconomics. Her research interest focuses on resource economics, with a uniquepreference on investigating rural natural resourcemanagement and ruraldevelopment issues in China, with empiricalmicro-econometric methods and fieldexperiment methods. The Colloquium iscoordinated by Associate Prof. Xueying Yufrom School of Economics andManagement at Beihang University.
Duringthe lecture, over 40 scholars and students from the SEMwere involved in discussion.They raised questions about the paper’smethodological framework and empirical strategies,which provokes furtherthinking on the issues from both parties.
