Rachel Fung

Rachel Fung is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri, where she is affiliated with the Health Policy Lab. She earned her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2024 and conducts research at the intersection of health, labor, and public policy.

Her research focuses on applied microeconomic questions, particularly how public policies influence health and labor market outcomes. Key areas include access to contraception, social security, sex education, fertility decisions, early cigarette bans, and insurance coverage for hearing aids. She uses rigorous empirical methods to evaluate the long-term impacts of such policies in the United States.

Dr. Fung’s scholarly contributions are emerging in the fields of health and labor economics, with ongoing projects examining critical public health interventions and their socioeconomic consequences. Though her publication record is not detailed in the current text, her research agenda is policy-relevant and data-driven.

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Dr. Fung is actively involved in research mentoring and collaborative projects within the Health Policy Lab. While formal advisees are not listed, she contributes to academic training and policy analysis. She has not received any grants explicitly mentioned in the text.

She is part of the Health Policy Lab in the Department of Economics, a research group focused on evaluating health-related policies using economic methodologies and large-scale data analysis.