​Chun Kit (Andy) Chung 


Position
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics
University of Reading
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​Education
PhD in Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
MEcon, University of Hong Kong
BSc in Economics, University of London
Dip in Economics, University of London

PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of London

​Background
My path to becoming an economist is quite unconventional. I started formally studying Economics only after entering the workforce, having completed my full-time education in another field. While working a full-time job, I pursued an undergraduate degree in Economics through distance learning from LSE and University of London, and later obtained a master’s degree in Economics part-time at University of Hong Kong. I continued my academic pursuit by earning a PhD in Economics part-time at Chinese University of Hong Kong. After completing my PhD, I continued working in industry for three more years before transitioning to academia as a lecturer at my alma mater in 2019. In 2021, I joined the University of Reading.

I became an applied microeconomist because I enjoy explaining human behaviour through the lens of price theory. I find it fascinating to interpret the world using this approach and am particularly drawn to topics that fall outside the traditional boundaries of Economics. My current research interests include beauty, parenting, child development, household structure, labour earnings, and football (soccer).

Research interests
Applied Microeconomics: Human Capital, Beauty, Family, Labour and Football (Soccer)

Publications​

1. Physical Attractiveness and Gender Differences in Drug Taking (with Junsen Zhang), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming
2. Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions (with Carl Singleton, Adrian Bell, James Reade and Andrew Urquhart), Economics Letters, 2024
3. An Economic Analysis of Tiger Parenting: Evidence from Child Developmental Delay or Learning Disability (with Yanyan Xiong and Junsen Zhang), Labour Economics, 2022
4. Gender Difference in Suicide, Unemployment and Household Production, Applied Economics, 2009

Selected Working papers​

1. Looks and Gaming: Who and Why? (with Daniel S. Hamermesh, Carl Singleton, Zhengxin Wang and Junsen Zhang)  NBER working paper 32809, IZA discussion paper 17191 minor revision at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2. Physical Attractiveness and Couple Formation Strategies: A Bidirectional Analysis (with Junsen Zhang)
3. Football matches and policing: Evidence from London (with Nils Braakmann, James Reade and Gennaro Rossi) 

Selected ongoing research projects

1. Native-immigrant earning gap (with Carl Singleton and Giovanni Razzu)
2. Domestic violence
3. Parenting

Administrative roles at UoR
School Director of Recruitment and Admissions, School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Undergraduate Admission Tutor, Department of Economics

2025-2026 modules
Introductory Microeconomics (with basic calculus; undergraduate)
Econometrics I (postgraduate)

Past modules at UoR
Principles of Economics 1 (undergraduate)
Introductory Mathematics for Economics I (undergraduate)
Money and Banking (undergraduate)
Microeconometrics II (postgraduate)
Microeconomic Policy (postgraduate)

Hobbies and interests
Traveling, watching (but not playing) football, reading history books, playing (some) video games, playing Gundam model kits...

Email: [email protected] 

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​Chinese University of Hong Kong