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Contributors
Qiulin Chenis Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, People’s Republic of China (PRC). He received his PhD in economics in 2010 from Peking University and earned a BA in business administation in 2001 from Nanjing University, PRC. He worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the School of National Development at Peking University from 2010 through 2012, as well as in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia- Pacifi c Research Center of Stanford University in 2011. His current research interests are health economics and policy, economics of demographic change, and public fi nance.
Karen Egglestonis Center Fellow and Director of the Asia Health Policy Program, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia- Pacifi c Research Center of Stanford University. She earned her PhD in public policy from Harvard University in 1999. She has MA degrees in economics and Asian studies from the University of Hawaii, and earned a BA summa cum laude (valedictorian) from Dartmouth College in 1988. She studied in the PRC for two years and was a Fulbright scholar in the Republic of Korea. A Stanford faculty member teaching in the East Asian studies program, her research focuses on comparative healthcare systems and health reform in Asia, especially in the PRC; government and market roles in the health sector; payment incentives; healthcare productivity; and the economics of the demographic transition.
Gemma Estradais Economics Officer at the Economics and Research Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She has been with the ADB since 2001, initially as a local consultant for various research projects. In 2006, she became Economics Officer at the Macroeconomics and Finance Research Division of the Economics and Research Department, ADB. Prior to her work in the ADB, she was Head of the Monitoring Division at the Agricultural Credit Policy Council. At the ADB, she has been involved in various research studies, covering areas such as labor markets, structural change, economic integration, fi nancial development, and Asian pension reform. She has also been actively involved in the annual publication of the Asian Development Outlook.