Sen Zeng

I am a 5th-year economics Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, I am also affiliated with the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell.

My research interests lie in the intersection of industrial organization and econometrics, with applications primarily in health economics.
Topics: (1) Demand estimation, discrete choice models; (2) The economics of tobacco regulation, application of discrete choice experiments.
Methods: Structural Model; Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Field Experiment.

I am supervised by Professor Francesca Molinari, Professor Levon Barseghyan, and Professor Colleen Carey.

E-mail: sz626@cornell.edu

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Working Papers

Understanding the Demand-Side of an Illegal Market: Prohibition of Menthol Cigarettes
Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Grace Phillips, Revathy Suryanarayana, Hua Wang, Sen Zeng
Revise & Resubmit at Health Economics
[PDF][NBER WP][Media: CATO]

Just What the Doctor Ordered? The Benefits and Costs of E-Cigarette Regulation in Australia
Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Grace Phillips, Revathy Suryanarayana, Hua Wang, Sen Zeng
Revise & Resubmit at Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
[PDF][NBER WP]

Fear or Knowledge? The Impact of Graphic Cigarette Warnings on Tobacco Product Choices
Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Grace Phillips, Revathy Suryanarayana, Hua Wang, Sen Zeng
[PDF][Online Appendix][NBER WP][Media: VoxEU]

Work in Progress

Aggregate Discrete Choice Demand Models with Unobserved Choice Sets

Demand for Stigmatized Products: The Case of Fukushima Rice
(with Satoru Shimokawa)

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Tobacco Regulations: Quantifying Internalities
(with Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios)

Consumer Preferences for Cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products in Japan: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
(with Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Grace Phillips, Revathy Suryanarayana, Hua Wang)

Attention and Consideration in Discrete Choice Experiments
(with Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Hua Wang)

Publications

The Effect of Health Information on Smoking Intensity: Does Addiction Matter?
Sen Zeng, Satoru Shimokawa. (2019)
Applied Economics

Partial Smoking Ban and Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Japan
Sen Zeng, Haruko Noguchi, Satoru Shimokawa. (2019)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health