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MS. DAN LI
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16 Keswick
St.
Cell Phone: +1 (617) 319-4158
Boston
MA
02215 Office
Phone: +1 (617) 353-3743
USA Fax:
+1 (617) 353-4449
Web site:
http://people.bu.edu/danli/
Email:
danli@bu.edu
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Economic History,
Urban Economics and Regional Science,
Development, Applied
Econometrics
DOCTORAL STUDIES
Ph.D.,
Economics, Boston University, Boston, MA
Dissertation:
Three Essays on the Economic History in Modern China
Committee Chair: Robert
A. Margo
Date of Completion: May
2008 (expected)
PRE-DOCTORAL STUDIES
M.A.,
Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2003
B.A., Economics, Beijing
University of Posts & Telecom, Beijing, China, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Ho,
Chun-Yu and Li, Dan, "Rising
Regional Income Inequality in China: Policy Regimes and Structural
Changes,"
forthcoming
in Papers in Regional Science.
Ho, Chun-Yu and Li, Dan,
"The Nexus of Income and Size Distribution of Chinese Cities, 1984-2003,"
forthcoming
in
Applied Economics Letters.
Li, Dan,
"Interregional
Productivity Variations in Chinese Manufacturing and Mining Industry,"
forthcoming
in Applied Economics Letters.
Lakshmanan,
T.R., Anderson, William P. and Li, Dan (2005)
"Growth of
U.S. Trade and Industrial
Competitiveness:
The Role of Transportation,"
A
Report Prepared for U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office
of Policy Analysis.
WORKING PAPERS
The Economic Effects of Civil Wars: Evidence from
Chinese National Railroads from 1906
to 1923 (Job
market Paper)
The
Evolution of City Income Distribution in China,
(with C.Y. Ho), 2007.
Evaluating the Welfare
Gain of
Economic Reform: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
(C.Y. Ho and W.Y. A. Ho), 2007.
Are
ETFs Good Index Trackers? (with Jack
Aber), 2007
An Empirical Analysis of
Household Choices on Housing and Travel Mode in Boston (with W.P. Anderson, C.Y.
Ho and T.R. Lakshmanan), 2005.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Transportation
Improvements and Land Values in Pre-War of Republic of China
Railroads,
Wars and Urbanization in Pre-communist China
On the cause of Civil Wars during the "warlord" period in China
CONFERENCES
AND PRESENTATIONS
2008 American
Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, LO
2007
Northeast Universities Development Consortium
Conference,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Empirical Microeconomics Lunch, Boston University, Boston, MA
Economic History Association Meetings
(Poster), Austin, TX
National Bureau of Economic
Research--Development of the American
Economy Program Meeting (Poster), Cambridge, MA
Harvard Economic History Tea, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
Economic & Business Historical Society
Conference 2007, Providence, RI
Association for Asia Studies Annual
Meeting 2007, Boston, MA
2006 Harvard
Economic History Tea, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Far
Eastern Meeting of Econometric Society 2006,
Beijing, China
Chinese
Economists Society Annual Conference 2006, Shanghai,
China
Conference
on Social Inequality in a New Century, UMASS,
Boston, MA
The
45th Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Graduate
Dissertation Fellowships,
Economic History
Association, 2007
Research Fellowships,
School of Management, Boston University, 2007
Graduate Research Abroad
Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Science, Boston University, 2006
Research Fellowships,
School of Management, Boston University, 2006
Travel Grant, Department
of Economics, Boston University, 2006
Rosenstein-Rodan
Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Development Economics, Institute of
Economic
Development, Boston University,
2006
Summer
Research Fellowship, Center for Transportation Studies, Boston University, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant,
Microeconomics, Boston University, Fall 2007
Instructor,
Microeconomics, Boston University, Summer 2007,
Teaching
Evaluation: 4.25/5.00 (Top 15%)
Instructor, Microeconomics,
Lasell
College, Spring 2006
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research
Assistant for Prof. Jack Aber, Boston University,
2006-2007
Research Assistant for
Prof. T.R. Lakshmanan and Prof. William Anderson,
2004-2006
Research Assistant for
Prof. Ning Yang, Beijing University of Posts &
Telecom, 1998
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Transportation
Planning Research Intuition, Department of Communications of the
People's Republic
of China,
Beijing,
China--Summer 2006
China
Mobile,
Wenzhou
Branch,
Wenzhou,
China -- Summer 2000
REFEREE EXPERIENCE:
Explorations in Economic
History
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