Philip H. Brown
Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics
Affiliated Department(s):
East Asian Studies
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Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan (2003)
M.A., Economics, University of Michigan (1999)
M.I.I.M., Sustainable Development, School for International Training (1996)
B.A., International Political Economy, Colorado College (1993) |
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| Areas of Expertise: |
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- Microeconomic development
- Labor economics
- Demography
- Empirical microeconomics
- Survey research
- The Chinese economy
- Poverty and inequality
- The economics of education and health
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| Professional Information |
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Philip H. Brown has been Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College since 2003. He is concurrently Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society, a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, and a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute. He is also listed on the Fulbright Specialists Roster.
Professor Brown holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.I.I.M. from the School for International Training. His research emphasizes microeconomic issues in economic development – particularly health, education, gender, environment, poverty, and inequality. Much of his research uses primary source data collected in rural China to understand how China’s rapidly changing economic environment affects the behavior of poor, rural households. He also works extensively in Chile and other low poverty/high inequality countries.
His research has been supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange as well as fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. It has been published in the Journal of Human Resources, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Health Economics, the Review of Income and Wealth, the Review of Development Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Socio-Economics, the China Economic Review, the China Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary China, the Journal of Environmental Management, and numerous other peer-reviewed journals.
At Colby, Professor Brown teaches classes on the Chinese economy, economic policy in East Asia, economic development, economic demography, and econometrics.
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(* denotes Colby student co-author)
Agostini, Claudio A. and Philip H. Brown. 2009. "Inequality at Low Levels of Aggregation in Chile." Forthcoming, Review of Income and Wealth.
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Brown, Philip H. and Thomas Huff*. 2009. "Willingness to Pay in China's New Cooperative Medical System." Forthcoming, Contemporary Economic Policy.
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Brown, Philip H. and Po Yin Wong*. 2009. "Does the Type of News Coverage Influence Donations to Disaster Relief? Evidence from the 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar." Forthcoming, Journal of Disaster Research.
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Brown, Philip H. and Yilin Xu*. 2009. "Hydropower Development and Resettlement Policy on China’s Nu River." Forthcoming, Journal of Contemporary China.
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Agostini, Claudio A. and Philip H. Brown. 2008. "Local Distributional Effects of Government Cash Transfers in Chile." Forthcoming, Review of Development Economics.
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Brown, Philip H., Alan de Brauw, and Yang Du. 2008. "The New Cooperative Medical System: Does it Help Farmers with Health Shocks Maintain Living Standards?" Forthcoming, China Labor Economics.
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Brown, Philip H. and Caroline Theoharides*. 2009. "Health-Seeking Behavior and Hospital Choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System."Health Economics 18(S2): S47-S64.
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Brown, Philip H., Desiree Tullos, Bryan Tilt, Darrin Magee, and Aaron Wolf. 2009. "Modeling the Costs and Benefits of Dam Construction from a Multidisciplinary Perspective." Journal of Environmental Management 90(S3): S303-S311.
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Brown, Philip H. 2009. "Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from China." Journal of Human Resources 44(1): 25-46.
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Brown, Philip H., Alan de Brauw, and Yang Du. 2009. "Understanding Variation in the Design of China's New Cooperative Medical System." The China Quarterly 198: 304-329.
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Brown, Philip H. and Brian Tierney*. 2009. "Religion and Subjective Well-Being Among China's Elderly Population." Journal of Socio-Economics 38: 310-319.
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Brown, Philip H., Darrin Magee, and Yilin Xu*. 2008. "Socioeconomic Vulnerability in China's Hydropower Development." China Economic Review. 19(4): 614-627.
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Brown, Philip H. and Jessica H. Minty*. 2008. "Media Coverage and Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami." Southern Economic Journal 75(1): 9-25.
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Agostini, Claudio A., Philip H. Brown, and Diana Paola Góngora. 2008. "Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Chile." Estudios de Economía 25(1): 79-110.
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Agostini, Claudio A. and Philip H. Brown. 2007. "Spatial Aspects of Inequality in Chile."
Revista de Análisis Económico 22(1): 3-31.
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Brown, Philip H. 2006. "Parental Education & Child Learning: Human Capital Investments in Time and Money." Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(4).
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Brown, Philip H. 2005. "Do Human Capital Investments Help to Explain the Relationship Between Parental Education and Child Learning in China?" China Labor Economics 2(2): 60-74.
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Brown, Philip H. 2004. "On the Relationship Between Parental Education and Investments in Children's Human Capital." China Labor Economics 1(2): 25-44.
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Brown, Philip H. and Albert Park. 2002. "Education and Poverty in Rural China." Economics of Education Review 21, 523-541.
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Brown, Philip H. 2002. "Parental Investment in Children's Human Capital in Rural China." China Education Forum 3(1): 6-10.
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| A. Working Papers |
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(* denotes Colby student co-author)
Brown, Philip H., Erwin Bulte, and Xiaobo Zhang. 2009. "Positional Spending and Status Seeking in China."
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.
Agostini, Claudio A., Philip H. Brown, and Andrei Roman*. 2008. "Poverty and Inequality Among Ethnic Groups in Chile."
Revise and resubmit, World Development.
Working paper: Social Science Research Network
Agostini, Claudio A. and Philip H. Brown. 2008. "Cash Transfers and Poverty Reduction in Chile."
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Regional Science.
Working paper: Social Science Research Network
Agostini, Claudio A., Philip H. Brown, and Diana Paola Góngora. 2009. "Human Capital, Political Affiliation, and Poverty Reduction in Chile."
Revise and resubmit, Public Budgeting and Finance.
Agostini, Claudio A., Philip H. Brown, and Andrei Roman*. 2009. "Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups by Matching Census and Survey Data."
Under review.
Working paper: William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 932
Tullos, Desiree, Philip H. Brown, Yan Feng, Kelly Kibler, Darrin Magee, Bryan Tilt, and Aaron Wolf. 2009. "Salience and Magnitude of Dam Impacts in Small and Large Hydrodevelopment Scenarios in China."
Under review.
Wong, Po Yin* and Philip H. Brown. 2009. "Natural Disasters and Vulnerability: Evidence from the 1997 Forest Fires in Indonesia."
Under review.
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| B. Research in Progress |
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Brown, Philip H., Darrin Magee, Bryan Tilt, Desiree Tullos, and Aaron Wolf. "Dams as Agents of Change in China."
Agostini, Claudio, Philip H. Brown, Yilin Xu, and Xiaobo Zhang. "Rural Governance and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Gansu, China."
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| C. Survey Projects and Fieldwork |
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Principal Investigator, "Interdisciplinary Research and Methods for Assessing Dams as Agents of Change in China” (2008-2011): Research on evaluating the costs and benefits of large dam construction from a socioeconomic, biophysical, and geopolitical perspectives; includes large-scale survey of households affected by dam construction in western China.
Co-Principal investigators: Darrin Magee, Bryan Tilt, Desiree Tullos, Aaron Wolf
Funding: National Science Foundation
Investigator, "Evaluating the Effect of Dams on Social Dynamics" (2007-2008): Exploratory research to investigate the social dynamics of dam construction in western China.
Principal investigators: Desiree Tullos, Bryan Tilt, Aaron Wolfe
Funding: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator, "China’s NCMS: Economic Implications for Households" (2006-2007): Survey of 1500 households in 30 counties in 2 provinces to study the economic effects of China’s New Cooperative Medical System. Matched survey of county health administrators.
Co-principal investigators: Alan de Brauw, Du Yang, Wang Meiyan, Zhong Funing
Funding: Ford Foundation, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Colby College
Principal Investigator, "Health Care Reforms in Rural China" (2004-2005): Preliminary fieldwork for a household survey on health care reforms in rural China.
Co-principal investigators: Alan de Brauw, Du Yang, Zhong Funing
Funding: Colby College, Williams College, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University
Investigator, "China Rural Poverty Survey II" (2001): Survey of 600 rural households and the villages, schools, medical clinics, and rural financial institutions in four poor counties. Survey of 1000 villages in the same four counties on the provision of local public goods.
Principal investigators: Albert Park, Wang Sangui
Funding: Ford Foundation
Investigator, "Gansu Survey of Children and Families" (2000): Survey of 2000 children aged 9-12 and their mothers, families, homeroom teachers, school principals, and village leaders in 20 rural counties in Gansu. Survey of 1000 teachers in village schools.
Principal investigators: Emily Hannum, Albert Park, Zhang Yanhong
Funding: Spencer Foundation
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