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Basics
| Name | Juk-Sen Tang |
| Label | Undergraduate Researcher in Agricultural Economics |
| juksen.tang@mail.mcgill.ca | |
| Url | https://juksentang.github.io |
| Summary | Undergraduate student at McGill University pursuing a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics with a minor in Computer Science. Research interests span agricultural economics, environmental and resource economics, and applied econometrics. Published in Agriculture on agricultural productivity and spatial spillover effects, with working papers on carbon pricing and green innovation, causal machine learning for policy evaluation, urban scaling laws, and food safety classification. |
Work
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2025.05 - Present Research Assistant
Key Lab of Urban Agriculture (North China), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
Contributing to research on agricultural productivity and policy analysis for North China urban agriculture.
- Drafted policy briefs for the PRC 15th Five-Year Agricultural Plan, focusing on regional economic coordination and benchmarking Canada's agricultural science and technology innovation systems to inform domestic policy
- Built spatial econometric datasets and analysed TFP-based coordination patterns across Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, identifying technology spillover, efficiency drag, and scale synergy channels to inform regional integration policy
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2024.05 - Present Admissions Agent
International Education College, NUAA
International student recruitment and coordination.
- Coordinate bilingual outreach, interview logistics, and enrollment reporting for international student recruitment
Volunteer
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2023.09 - Present Secretary
Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA), McGill University
Cross-campus communications, budgeting, and event planning for 400+ students
Education
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2025.02 - 2025.06 Beijing, China
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2024.05 - 2024.08 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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2023.08 - 2027.01 Montreal, QC, Canada
Bachelor of Science
McGill University
Agricultural Economics (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences); Minor in Computer Science
- Agricultural Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Environmental Economics
- Computer Science (Minor)
Publications
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2026 Are Food Safety Classifiers Learning Hazards or Memorizing Firms? Entity-Level Leakage in FDA Recall Severity Prediction
Preprint
Authors: LI Peilun, TANG Juk-Sen (Corresponding Author). Benchmarked ML classifiers on 28,448 FDA recall records.
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2026 Scaling Laws, Poverty Traps, and the Urbanization Crossover in Chinese County Economies
Preprint
Author: TANG Juk-Sen (Sole Author). Estimated sector-specific urban scaling exponents for approximately 2,800 Chinese counties (2000–2023).
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2026 Causal Machine Learning Reveals Divergent Effectiveness of Governance Modes for Sustainable Agricultural Transformation
Preprint
Authors: TANG Juk-Sen (Lead), ZHANG Haobo, SHAN Lily, CHEN Junhong. Applied Causal Forest with DML to three policy reforms across 2,700+ Chinese counties.
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2026 Agricultural Productivity and Its Spatial Spillover Effects in China
Agriculture, 2026, 16(5), 543
Authors: TANG Juk-Sen (Lead), LU Hongwei, GONG Tianyi, CHEN Junhong. Estimated provincial agricultural TFP across 31 Chinese provinces (2014–2023) using a novel IV-LP-ACF-SAR framework.
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2025 Carbon Price Certainty and Green Innovation: Evidence from Canada's Federal Backstop Policy
Preprint
Author: TANG Juk-Sen (Sole Author). Exploited Alberta's 2019 backstop adoption as a natural experiment across 1,381 firms.
Certificates
| CATTI International Translator & Interpreter Qualification | ||
| China International Communications Group | 2024-12-01 |
Skills
| Research & Analytics | |
| Spatial econometrics | |
| Total factor productivity analysis | |
| Agricultural policy synthesis |
| Tools & Programming | |
| Python | |
| C/C++ | |
| Stata | |
| R | |
| MATLAB | |
| GeoDa | |
| EconML | |
| scikit-learn | |
| ArcGIS/QGIS |
| Communications | |
| International admissions recruitment | |
| Bilingual translation | |
| Media coordination |
Languages
| Mandarin | |
| Native speaker |
| Cantonese | |
| Native speaker |
| Southwestern Mandarin | |
| Native speaker |
| Hunanese | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Professional, CATTI-certified |
| French | |
| Conversational |
Interests
| Agricultural Economics | |||||
| Agricultural Productivity | |||||
| Total Factor Productivity | |||||
| Governance Modes | |||||
| Sustainable Transformation | |||||
| Environmental Economics | |||||
| Carbon Pricing | |||||
| Climate Policy | |||||
| Green Innovation | |||||
| Sustainability | |||||
| Applied Econometrics | |||||
| Causal Inference | |||||
| Causal Machine Learning | |||||
| Spatial Econometrics | |||||
| Urban Scaling Laws | |||||
References
| Dr. Junhong Chen (陈俊红) | |
| Researcher at Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences. Registered Consulting Engineer (Investment), Master's Supervisor. Research focus on urban modern agriculture and innovation in science & technology systems. Led over 30 research projects including Beijing Social Science Fund and municipal soft science projects. Published over 50 papers in core journals and authored 5 monographs. Email: chenjunhong@baafs.net.cn |