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Chih Ming Tan

Chih Ming Tan received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. In-between degrees, he served as an economic analyst with the Ministry of Defense in Singapore while completing his military draft requirements. He joined the Department of Economics at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in September of 2004. Tan's primary research interests are in the areas of economic growth and development. His current research employs statistical learning techniques as well as recent developments in sample splitting and threshold regression methods to uncover important causes of economic divergence across countries.
 

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