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Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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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 in 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, and the Journal of Health Economics. Currently, she is working on peer-to-peer lending, drug withdrawals, and parental disciplline of adolescents. She has been faculty research fellow of NBER since 2005 and co-editor of Journal of Econmics & Management Strategy and International Journal of Industrial Organization since 2008. She teaches in empirical industrial organization and applied econometrics.
Areas of Interest:
industrial organization, health economics, and the economics of family
Published Papers
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| -- | 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). |
| -- | 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) forthcoming Economic Inquiry. |
| -- | 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 |
|---|---|
| January 15, 2009 | Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors (with Pradeep Chintagunta and Renna Jiang), under reivew. |
| November 19, 2008 | Do Social Networks Solve Information Problems for Peer-to-Peer Lending? Evidence from Prosper.com (with Seth Freedman) |
| -- | Matchmaking for Children: Are There Agency Costs? (with Lixin Xu), under revision. |
| -- | The Market for Online Drug Information: The Role of Organic and Sponsored Search with Chesnes, Matthew coming soon |
Teaching - Fall 2009
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 424: Computer Methods in Economics | ||
| ECON 664: Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization |
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