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Asst Prof Tang Cheng Keat
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
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I received my PhD from the London School of Economics in 2018 and I was a visiting research fellow in University of Southern California from August 2018 - July 2019. I joined Nanyang Technological University in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor in Economics
My research interests include Urban and Housing Economics, Environmental Economics, Transportation Economics and Economics of Crime. In particular, I am interested in evaluating the effectiveness of spatial and regional policies in achieving its intended outcomes with focus on establishing casual inference.
- Beauty Pays for Crime: Evidence from Judicial Sentencing
- Unintended consequences from coal fired power plant closures: Evidence from China
Courses Taught
Housing Economics
Public Finance and Public Policy
Causal Inference in Public Policy
Cost Benefit Analysis
Public Finance and Public Policy
Causal Inference in Public Policy
Cost Benefit Analysis
Supervision of PhD Students
Deng Ruotong (Joint supervision with Yan Jubo)
Eugene Or (Joint supervision with Nick Powdthavee)
Eugene Or (Joint supervision with Nick Powdthavee)