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Wei Sun
Department of Economics
Boston College
Cell: (419) 378-1575
Office: (617) 552-6746
Email: wei.sun@bc.edu
Homepage: www2.bc.edu/~sunwc

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Economics, Boston College, 2005 - present (expected May 2010)
         Dissertation: Essays on the Economic Decisions Faced by Elderly Households
M.A., Economics, Bowling Green State University, 2003-2005
M.S., Applied Statistics, Bowling Green State University, 2003-2005
B.A., Finance, University of International Business and Economics, China, 1999-2003

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Financial Economics

DISSERTATION

PUBLICATIONS

WORKING PAPERS

  • "How Do Time-Use Constraints Influence Retirement Transitions?''
    2008, Working Paper, Center for Retirement Research, WP#2008-17 (with Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb)
  • "Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefit So Early? Ignorance, Caddishness or Something Else," 2007, Working Paper, Center for Retirement Research, WP#2007-17 (with Steve Sass and Anthony Webb)

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • "The Impact of Medical Costs on the Value of Annuitization" (with Anthony Webb)

RESEARCH BRIEFS

  • "How Much Do Older Workers Value Employee Health Insurance?"
    2008, Issue in Brief, Center for Retirement Research, IB#8-9 (with Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb)
  • "When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?" 2008, Issue in Brief, Center for Retirement Research, IB#8-4 (with Steven Sass and Anthony Webb)
  • "An Annuity People Might Actually Buy," 2007, Issue in Brief, Center for Retirement Research, IB#7-10 (with Guan Gong and Anthony Webb)
  • "Will Reverse Mortgages Rescue the Baby Boomers?'' 2006, Issue in Brief, Center for Retirement Research, IB#54 (with Andrew Eschtruth and Anthony Webb)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • "The thoughts of Financial Innovation," 2002, Hebei Finance, 9:15 (in Chinese, with Gang Xiao)
  • "Analysis of Individual Consumption Credit Situation and Foreground," 2002, Hebei Finance, 1:22-23 (in Chinese, with Gang Xiao)

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Research Assistant, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, MA, Fall 2005 to present
  • Intern, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, Summer 2008
  • Research Assistant, Center for Regional Development, Bowling Green State University, OH, Fall 2004 to Summer 2005
  • Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, OH, Fall 2003 to Spring 2004
  • Intern, Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commission, Shijiazhuang, China, Summer 2002
  • Intern, The People's Bank of China, Shijiazhuang, China, Summer 2001

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • H. Michael Mann Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, 2009
  • Dissertation Fellowship, Social Security Administration, 2008
  • Tuition Scholarship, Department of Economics, Boston College, Fall 2005 to present
  • Department Fellowship, Department of Economics, Boston College, Fall 2005 to Fall 2007
  • Tuition Scholarship, Department of Applied Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Fall 2004 to Spring 2005
  • Tuition Scholarship, Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, Fall 2003 to Spring 2004

COMPUTER SKILLS

Statistical and Mathematical Packages: MATLAB, STATA, SAS, SPSS, Minitab, S-PLUS
Datasets: HRS (including Restricted Data), SCF, SIPP, ATUS, CPS

Last updated: November, 2009