Chen Liu is an economics Ph.D candidate at UC San Diego, where he focuses on his research on the cause and consequences of globalization. He was a NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellow in High Skill Immigration during 2015-2016. He received his Master's in International Affairs from School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS) at UC San Diego in 2011, and his B.S in Mathematics from Tongji University at Shanghai in 2009.