Chaoran Chen

Associate professor of economics at York University

[Dirk Krueger @IERJournal]

Why are married women less likely than men to leave agriculture, when single women aren’t? Couples specialize: wives absorb home production, leaving too few market hours to justify the fixed cost of a non-farm job. A Roy model on China matches the 12pp married-worker gap.

[Dirk Krueger @IERJournal]

The International Economic Review has just published an exciting new paper by Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen and Xican Xi on Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change. It is available through @WileyEconomics here: https://t.co/7zmHE1UiBk

[Dirk Krueger @IERJournal]

Insurance coverage has a “health premium”: the insured are more likely to maintain good health. A macro-health model shows insurance substantially impacts health and income inequality. Universal health coverage would narrow health gaps, with mixed effects on income distribution.

[Dirk Krueger @IERJournal]

The International Economic Review has just published a new exciting paper by Chaoran Chen, Zhigang Feng and Jiaying Gu on HEALTH, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND INEQUALITY. It is available through @WileyEconomics here: https://t.co/R2JOeuuhWZ

[Chaoran Chen @ChaoranChen]

@jj_eugene_tan So sorry to hear that you are sick. Get well soon!

[Rafael Domenech | @BBVAResearch & @UV_EG @rdomenechv]

Contrasting U.S. and European Job Markets during #COVID19
J.B. Eyméoud, N. Petrosky-Nadeau, R. Santaeulàlia-Llopis and E. Wasmer
The labor market implications will depend on how much labor reallocation is required to meet the demands of a changed economy
https://t.co/3bXj4sC5gw

[Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac]

Interesting preprint demonstrating Omicron having more environmental stability compared to other variants & maintaining infectivity for longer.

Air matters, but maybe more fomite transmission with Omicron than previously thought?

Handwashing still (read: always) important.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

A (very small) win for consumers.

[Tristan Imgrund @tristan_sudbury]

⭐️⭐️ BREAKING NEWS ⭐️⭐️: @WesternU students, staff and faculty will be required to demonstrate proof of vaccination.

They join @uOttawa and @SenecaCollege as higher education institutions making higher education decisions.

What’s taking so long @uofg?!?

[Chaoran Chen @ChaoranChen]

@yorkuniversity

[Tristan Imgrund @tristan_sudbury]

Seneca is the first Ontario post-secondary institution to make vaccination a condition of participating in in-person learning.

With their leadership on this issue now on the books, hope all the other institutions jump on it this week and make it happen.