About

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dickinson College. I am currently on research leave and visiting the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the spring 2024 semester.

I am co-organizing the Liberal Arts College Public and Labor (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar. The 2024 schedule can be accessed here. If you are interested in receiving the virtual meeting link for the seminar, please sign up here.

In the fall of 2024, I will join the Ness School of Management and Economics at South Dakota State University as an assistant professor.

I received a PhD in economics from University of Kentucky (2020), an MS in economics from Tufts University (2015) and a BS in economics from Chongqing Technology and Business University (2013).

You can reach me via email: dingx@dickinson.edu

Dickinson Students

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    • What's New

  • (May) The Liberal Arts College Public and Labor (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar will kick off on May 3, 2024. If you are interested in receiving the virtual meeting link for the seminar, please sign up here.
  • (January) I will be presenting the school rezoning and welfare paper at the AREUEA-ASSA Conference Urban Inequality session and the EITC and gender norms paper at the LERA-ASSA Conference Early Interventions and Adult Outcomes session in San Antonio.
  • (November) My co-author, Eren Bilen, will be presenting our joint work with Paul Ko, titled Changes in Productivity in Job-to-Job Transitions: Evidence in Labor Mobility in Academia at the SEA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Feel free to stop by Session [3.C.09], Human Capital II.
  • (October) I will be presenting the paper Estimation of Welfare Effects in Hedonic Difference-in-Differences: The Case in School Redistricting at the Urban Economics Association North American Meeting in Toronto.
  • (September) The paper on school redistricting and the timing and extent of capitalization has been accepted at Journal of Regional Science.
  • The Dickinson Economics Research Seminar (joint with International Studies Department) schedule can be accessed here.