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Hui  (Michelle) Wang

Hui Wang completed her Ph.D. in the Family Resource Management Graduate Program at the Ohio State University in December, 1997.

  She is working for E*Trade in California as a statistical modeler (starting Oct. 23, 2000.)  She was a statistical analyst with Milliken in South Carolina until Autumn, 2000.
 

She won the $500 prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper at the Family Economics/Resource Management Preconference of AAFCS in 1995.

 Email: mwang96@hotmail.com
 
 

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Family Resource Management
The Ohio State University
partial responsibility of class "Family Financial Management II" computer section (FRM 560, 4 credits, Fall 1994). Giving instruction and answering students' questions regarding how to use financial management software.

 partial responsibility of class "Seminar in Consumer Economics" computer section (FRM 895.01, 3 credits, Summer 1993). Helping students get familiar with mainframe and SAS program and accessing the consumer expenditure survey data.

Graduate Research Associate, Fall 1992 - present
Department of Family Resource Management
The Ohio State University

 Data analysis (SAS, SPSS PC, SHAZAM) on research projects based on Consumer Expenditure Survey, local time use data, Japanese time use data, local marriage and divorce data, and local shopping bag data by employing basic statistics, logit, probit, tobit, two-stage least square, two-stage tobit and other statistic tools). Developed related code books.

Merged 1990 and 1991 Consumer Expenditure Survey EXPN tape. Merged 1990 and 1991 Consumer Expenditure Survey Interview tape.

Participated in software development of life cycle savings pattern of households by using Power Basic.

 Produced tables and graphic presentations of family extension education program using Quattro Pro and WordPerfect Presentations.

Graduate Research Assistant, September 1990 - July 1992
Department of Consumer Sciences & Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies
The University of Alabama

 Economic model simulation by using Fortran program and analyzed Current Population Survey data with SAS.

 Data analysis using SPSS on research projects

 Lecturer, July 1987 - August 1990
Department of Business Administration
Beijing Polytechnic University

 Sole responsibility for instruction class "Computer application in business management" (Dept. of Business Administration, 4 credits, Spring semesters, 1988, 1989, and 1990; 35 students per semester).

 Sole responsibility for instruction class "Introduction to business management" (Dept. of Business Administration, 4 credits, Fall semesters, 1987 and 1988; 60 students per semester).

 Sole responsibility for instruction class "Specialty English in business management" (Dept. of Business Administration, 4 credits, Spring semester, 1988; 35 students).

 Sole responsibility for instruction class "Financial management" (2 weeks training class for local small business managers organized by Dept. of Business Administration; spring 1988).
 
 

Publications

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 Wang, H. with Lee, J.K., Hanna, S., and Mok, C. F. J. (1997). Apparel expenditure patterns of elderly consumers: a life-cycle consumption model. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 26(2), 109-140.

Wang, H. (1996). Estimates of income and wealth inequality among elderly households. Consumer Interests Annual, v42, 65-72.
Wang, H. (1995). Income and Expenditure Inequality: An Analysis Based on the Gini Coefficient, Family Economics and Resource Management Biennial, 1, 179-184.

 Wang, H., Mok, C. J. & Fox, J. (1995). Food Expenditure Patterns of Elderly Consumers: A Question of Time Allocation, Family Economics and Resource Management Biennial, 185-192

 Finke, M., Ismail, M., Chen, P., Jayathirtha, C., Wang, H., Park, S. & Hanna, S. (1995). How much should consumers be willing to pay for information about quality and price? Implications for cyberspace. Family Economics and Resource Management Biennial, 1, 21-22.

 Wang, H. (1995). Do marital status and presence of children affect women's wage rate? Consumer Interests Annual, 41, 62-68. Hanna, S. & Wang, H. (1995). The adequacy of emergency funds to cover household expenditures Consumer Interests Annual, 41, 224-225.

Hanna, S., Wang, H., & Lindamood, S. (1994). Do elderly households have rational financial plans?: evidence from consumer expenditure data, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 272-288.

 Wang, H. (1994). "Capital gains taxation and personal investment decision," in the Paper Abstracts of the 1994 Academy of Financial Services Eighth Annual Program.

Wang, H., Mok, C. F. J. & Hanna, S. (1994). Are the consumption patterns of elderly households consistent with a life cycle model?, Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research, I, 237-245.

 Wang, H., Mok, C. F. J. & Hanna, S. (1994). Consumption patterns of elderly households: an empirical analysis using a life cycle model, Consumer Interests Annual, vol. 40, 328-335.

 Stafford, K., Wessel, J.A., Jayathirtha, C., Mok, J., Park, S.Y., Sung, J., Wang, H., & Zuiker, V.S., (Invited Paper). (1994). The effects of restructuring in higher education on the mission of family economics resource management. The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Eastern Family Economics and Resource Management Association, 144-152.

Wang, H. and Mok, J. (1994). "Life cycle hypothesis and consumption patterns of elderly households," in the Proceedings of Eastern Family Economics and Resource Management Conference.

Hanna, S., Bae, M., Martin, A. & Wang, H. (1993). Patterns of household spending on major appliances, Proceedings of the International Appliance Technical Conference, 137-146. Won award for "Outstanding Technical Presentation."

 Wang, H., Abdel-Ghany, M., and Sharpe, D. L. (1993). "Consumer expenditure pattern differentials between working-wife and non-working wife families," in the proceedings of 39th Annual Conference of American Council on Consumer Interests.

 Wang, H. with Guan, W. L., et al. (1989). "The renewal factor." China Economic and Finance Publishing House, Beijing PRC.

Wang, H. with Guan, W. L., et al. (1988). "Precis of foreign classics on business management." Jiangxi People's Publishing House, Jiangxi PRC.
 
 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Council on Consumer Interest
American Economic Association
Academy of Financial Service
 
 

REFERENCES

Professor Kathryn Stafford
Department of Consumer Sciences
The Ohio State University
1787 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-4564
Email: stafford.2@osu.edu

Professor Sherman D. Hanna
Department of Consumer Sciences
The Ohio State University
1787 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-4584
Email: hanna.1@osu.edu

Professor Nancy M. Rudd, Associate Provost
Academic Affair (also Department of Consumer and Textile Sciences)
The Ohio State University
203 Brown Hall, Columbus, OH 432110
(614) 292-5881
Email: rudd.2@osu.edu">