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Xuezheng Qin is a professor of economics at Peking University, where he serves as the deputy dean of the School of Economics and the Institute for Global Health and Development. His research interests include health economics, economics of human capital, and applied econometrics. Professor Qin’s research is funded by national and international agencies such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the International Development Research Center in Canada. He has published more than 70 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Comparative Economics, Health Economics, and Health Policy and Planning. He is also the author of several books, including Applied Econometrics with Eviews and SAS Examples (2016), Migrant Workers in China’s New Health Insurance System (2017), and Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission and Its Impact on Economic Growth (2023). Professor Qin serves as an associate editor for China & World Economy,and a guest editor for several journals including China Economic Review, Inquiry, and Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. He was elected as the president of China Labor Economist Forum and a Distinguished Professor of Beijing Higher Education, and has gained other recognitions for his research and teaching. Chee-Ruey Hsieh is a retired scholar and now serves as an independent researcher for public policies, including health care, long-term care and pension system. Before his retirement, he had appointment in several prestige universities and research institutes, including the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2017-2020), Duke University and Duke Kunshan University (2014-17), and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinca, Taiwan (1990-2014). He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1990. Since then, health economics has become the central focus of his research career. His past research has covered several diversified areas in the field of health economics and applied microeconomics, including medical malpractice, the economics of health behavior, the demand for medical care, the determinants of health, health insurance, healthcare expenditure, the labor supply of physicians and nurses, physician incentives, hospital competition, and the economics of the pharmaceutical industry. He is the co-editor of three previous books on the economics of health care. He is also the co-author of the textbook on health economics published by MIT Press. 

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