Dr. Hyeran Chung is an Assistant Professor in the Woody L. Hunt College of Business at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is an applied economist specializing in health economics and the economics of aging. Her research explores how early-life factors shape later-life outcomes, including education, financial decision-making, and health. She actively collaborates on interdisciplinary projects with economists, sociologists, and public health scholars. Prior to joining UTEP in 2024, she completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

• Rising STARs Program Award - The University of Texas System (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)

• Ph D in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022)

• Does Health Drive Retirement or Retirement Drive Health? Oxford University Press (in press), Hyeran Chung, Sita Slavov.
• Racial, ethnic, and urban/rural differences in the transition into diabetes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey biomarker and self-reported data Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(1) 5 (2022), Hyeran Chung, Mary Arends-Kuenning.
• Do Foreign-educated Nurses Displace US-educated Nurses? IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10(1) (2020), Hyeran Chung, Mary Arends-Kuenning.
• Maternal cancer and time investment in children Consumer Interests Annual Proceedings, American Council on Consumer Interest (2020), Hyeran Chung, Yilan Xu.

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• UTEP FIRST: United Toward Equity and Progress - Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (09/01/2024 - 05/31/2027) National Institutes of Health (NIH)