Encourages deep understanding and curiosity.
Encourages creativity and critical thinking.
Zhaochen He serves as an associate professor of economics at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, located in Luter Hall 223. Born in Beijing, China, he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, earning dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and physics. He subsequently pursued graduate studies at Boston College, where he received his PhD in economics. After completing his doctorate in 2014, Dr. He was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at Lewis and Clark College. He later transitioned to Christopher Newport University, where he advanced to the rank of associate professor. In his teaching role, he offers courses on empirical methods, labor economics, and macroeconomics.
Dr. He's scholarly work concentrates on labor economics and macroeconomics. His methodological expertise encompasses the application of statistical techniques to process large datasets, alongside computational modeling to synthesize concepts from multiple research domains, with the goal of generating studies that influence real-world outcomes. His prominent publications feature 'A census of the green economy: measuring marijuana employment, businesses, and payroll in four states' (co-authored with Travis K. Taylor, Martin Andersen, and Beau Whitney; Applied Economics, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 1056-1069, 2025), 'The Impact of National Culture on Covid-19 Pandemic Outcomes' (International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 313-335, 2022), 'The Contractionary Effect of Bad Economic News' (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1339-1384, 2017), and 'Failing Cities and the Red Queen Phenomenon' (Boston College Law Review, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 600-638, 2017). Additional contributions include co-authorship on 'Political Partisanship, Covid-19 Lockdown Policies, and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence of US Metropolitan Areas' (2023) and 'A semiparametric alternative to the Heckman correction: application with left-censored data on parental leave uptake' (2024). He has also signed the Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends and maintains the choroplethr R package for choropleth mapping.
