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Biography
Professor Ginger Zhe Jin received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in 2000. Her primary fields of research are industrial organization, health economics, and the economics of family. Most of her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. The applications she has studied include restaurant hygiene report cards in Los Angeles, rating of health care organizations, advertising and learning of prescription drugs, online trading, and the intrafamilial interaction between parents and children. Her research has been published in the Quaterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. Currently, she is working on peer-to-peer lending, research misconduct, inspector behavior in regulatory enforcement, and several projects related to China's economic development, health insurance, and air quality . She is a Research Associate of NBER and a co-editor of Journal of Econmics & Management Strategy. She teaches in empirical industrial organization and applied econometrics. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Net Institute, and the Sloan Foundation.
Areas of Interest:
industrial organization, health economics, the economics of family, and China
Published Papers
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| January 15, 2009 | Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors (with Pradeep Chintagunta and Renna Jiang), Quantitative Marketing and Economics, December 2009, 7(4): 399-443. |
| -- | Competition and Disclosure Incentives: An Empirical Study of HMOs RAND Journal of Economics, Spring 2005, Vol 26, 93-113 . |
| -- | Direct to Consumer Advertising and Prescription Choice (with Toshiaki Iizuka) Journal of Industrial Economics 2007, Notes and Comments, published at http://www.essex.ac.uk/jindec/notes.htm. |
| -- | Dividing Online and Offline: A Case Study (with Andrew Kato) Review of Economic Studies, July 2007, 74(3): 981-1004. |
| -- | Drug Advertising and Health Habit (with Toshiaki Iizuka) forthcoming at the series of Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Volume Communication Games, Elsevier. |
| -- | Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers (With Lingxin Hao and V. Joseph Hotz) Economic Journal, April 2008 118(528): 515-555. |
| -- | Impact of Restaurant Hygiene Grade Cards on Foodborne Disease Hospitalizations in Los Angelse County (with Phillip Leslie, Paul Simon, Grace Run, Roshan Reporter, Arturo Aguirre and Jonathan E. Fielding) Journal of Environmental Health, March 2005, Vol. 67, 32-36. |
| -- | Information and Consumer Choice: The Value of Publicized Health Plan Ratings (with Alan Sorensen) Journal of Health Economics, March 2006, 25(2): 248-275. |
| -- | Price, Quality and Reputation: Evidence from An Online Field Experiment (with Andrew Kato) RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2006, 37(4). |
| -- | Quality Disclosure and Certification (with David Dranove), forthcoming the Journal of Economic Literature. Also available as NBER WP #15644. |
| -- | Reputation Incentives for Restaurant Hygiene (with Phillip Leslie) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2009, 1(1): 237-67. |
| -- | That's News to Me! Information Revelation in Professional Certification Markets (with John A. List and Andrew Kato) Economic Inquiry, January 2010 48(1): 104-122. |
| -- | The Case in Support of Restaurant Hygiene Grade Cards (with Phillip Leslie) Choices, 2nd Quarter 2005, 20(2), 97-102. |
| -- | The Effects of Information on Product Quality: Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene Grade Cards (with Phillip Leslie), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2003, 118(2), 409-51. |
| -- | The Effects of Prescription Drug Advertising on Doctor Visits (with Toshiaki Iizuka) Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Fall 2005, 14(3): 701-727. |
Working Papers
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| February 19, 2010 | Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com (with Seth Freedman) |
| -- | Does the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China (with Yuyu Chen), working paper. |
| -- | Love and Money by Parental Match-Making: Evidence from Chinese Couples (with Fali Huang and Lixin Xu), under review. |
| -- | Peer Migration in China (with Yuyu Chen and Yang Yue), under review. |
| -- | Platform Pricing at Sportscard Conventions (with Marc Rysman), working paper. |
| -- | The Market for Online Drug Information: The Role of Organic and Sponsored Search coming soon |
Teaching - Spring 2013
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | ||
| ECON 664: Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization |
Teaching - Fall 2012
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis |  |
Teaching - Spring 2012
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | |
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| ECON 878: Workshop in Labor Economics |
Teaching - Fall 2011
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | |
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| ECON 664: Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization | |
Teaching - Spring 2011
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | |
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| ECON 664: Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization | |
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| ECON 878: Workshop in Labor Economics |
Teaching - Fall 2010
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 326: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | |
Teaching - Fall 2009
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
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| ECON 424: Computer Methods in Economics | ||
| ECON 664: Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization |
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