Zhuan Pei

Associate Professor
Economics, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy/College of Arts and Sciences/ILR School

Contact Information

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Zhuan Pei

Associate Professor
Economics, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy/College of Arts and Sciences/ILR School

Expertise

Labor economics, applied microeconomics, public policy

Current Research Interest

Data visualization and visual inference; labor market returns to further education among unemployed workers; effects of social security disability insurance payment on mortality; long-run impacts of cash welfare policies on welfare recipients and their children; method to understand who benefits from policy intervention in experiments and quasi-experiments

Distinction

Jain Family Institute, Brooks School Faculty Fellow
Cornell Institute of Social Sciences Faculty Fellow
Albert Rees Dissertation Prize

Selected Publications

Korting, Christina, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, and Yi Shen. “Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs.” Quarterly Journal of Economics (March 2023). Online publication.

Card, David, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei, and Andrea Weber. “Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design.” Econometrica 83, no. 6 (2015): 2453–2483.

Cornell Research Website Article

Seeing the Difference a Dollar Makes