Ming Fang
Major Professor: Songqing Jin
Major professor’s email: jins@msu.edu
Expected graduation date: Spring 2023
Degree type: Ph.D.
Areas of specialization: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Agricultural Economics
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/mfang
Job Market Paper: Caste Network and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Rural India
Ming is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University and will be on the job market during the 2022-2023 academic year. He works mainly on topics in Development Economics and Agricultural Economics, with a focus on understanding how rural farmers in developing countries respond to environmental and institutional changes in agricultural production, employment, consumption, educational arrangement, etc., and the implications on social welfare and public policy.