Professor Chen’s areas of expertise include social inequality, research methodology, demography, spatial analysis, applications of remote sensing data and Chinese ethnic studies. She co-manages the Yale G-Econ Project (https://gecon.yale.edu/) with the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Economics, William Nordhaus.
Her research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ASA's Sociological Methodology, the journal Remote Sensing, the journal Spatial Demography, Journal of Economic Geography, the journal Society and Natural Resources, and Asian Ethnicity, amongst other places.
Her research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ASA's Sociological Methodology, the journal Remote Sensing, the journal Spatial Demography, Journal of Economic Geography, the journal Society and Natural Resources, and Asian Ethnicity, amongst other places.
Education
- BA, Renmin University of China
- PHD, Texas A & M University
Organization
- Sociology
Office Location
- College of Arts & Sciences 1 330
Mail Drop
- CL-AC1