Associate Teaching Professor, Economics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Email: bingma@umbc.edu
Office: Public Policy 339
Phone: 410-455-8039
Research Interests:
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics.
Working Papers:
“Does Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy Matters to Infants Birth Outcomes?” (with Esra Yavuz Erdem)
“Is the Long Run Effect of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition Gender Neutral? A Case of the Great Chinese Famine”
“Women’s Career Path and Family Behaviors: A Discrete Choice Panel VAR Approach” (with Chunming Yuan).
“The Occupation, Marital Status and Fertility Choices of Women: A Life-Cycle Model”.
“Do Expectation and Realization of Women’s Fertility Match across Occupations? Evidence from NLSY79”
“Why Don’t Women Major in Economics?” (with Lisa Dickson).
Recent/Selected Publications:
“Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Gradient over Age: New Evidence from China”, Frontier of Economics in China, Volume 7, Number 1, 2012 , pp. 70-93(24)