Ting Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Director & Assistant Professor

Ting Zhang is an Associate Director of the Jacob France Institute, Assistant Professor of the Department of Finance and Economics, Merrick School of Business and a Faculty Fellow at Schaefer Center for Public Policy of University of Baltimore. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include entrepreneurship and aging, workforce development, education and labor, welfare-to-work, business and employment dynamics, and regional economy. She has been a PI or co-PI for multiple workforce related local, state and national projects. Dr. Zhang is a published author of multiple books and a number of academic journal articles. She is a referee for multiple renowned academic journals. Her book Elderly Entrepreneurship in an Aging Economy: It’s Never Too Late was favorably reviewed by The Gerontologist. Dr. Zhang recently in 2015 won again a prestigious research grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to conduct research on boomer entrepreneurship. In the summer of 2015, she was invited by the University of Lisbon to give a keynote speech on later life entrepreneurship. In 2013, she gave an invited speech at the National Press Club. Dr. Zhang’s research was quoted by Time magazine, the Bloomberg Businessweek, Newswise, the Baltimore Sun, and the Baltimore Business Journal, and she was interviewed by the NPR-WEAA station. She was previously a winner of the national Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Award, finalist title in the international Charles Tiebout Prize for Regional Science, US Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration Research Fellowship Award, Public Policy Paper Competition by Virginia Department of Transportation, and several other research awards. Before joining University of Baltimore, she conducted research at George Mason University, the World Bank, the Urban Institute, and the Council of Graduate Schools, and taught at UMBC. Dr. Zhang’s recent work includes health and later life entrepreneurship, housing variability and regional economy, skill gap and mismatch, location impact on welfare-to-work propensity, profiling Maryland employment and business dynamics, examining recession impacts, tracking worker placement, exploring geographic dynamics of Maryland economy and its impact on public policy, diagnosing data quality using administrative records, and conducting researches using linked longitudinal administrative records.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Books

Zhang, T. and Stough, R. (2013) (Eds). Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in China. New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. Cited by 9 as of April 1, 2018.

Zhang, T. (2008), Elderly Entrepreneurship in an Aging U.S. Economy: It’s Never Too Late . New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-281-449-4, 981-281-449-3. Reviewed by Wassel, J., “Older Entrepreneurs as the New Economic Frontier.” The Gerontologist, 2010, 50 (6), the review is available at the World Wide Web http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/6/863.extract Cited by 51 for three versions as of April 1, 2018.

Zhang, T . (2008), Aging in the “Knowledge Economy”: Crises or Opportunities?. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM. ISBN: 978-3-639-07612-7.

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles in the Ranked Journal List

Kang, Y.,Tzeng, H.M., and Zhang, T. (2019). Rural Disparities in Hospital Patient Satisfaction: Multilevel Analysis of the Massachusetts AHA, SID, and HCAHPS Data. Journal of Patient Experience. First published online on September 23, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/2374373519862933

Gaynor, G., Korb, P., Gerlowski, D. and Zhang, T. (2019). “An alternate state in mind: the effect of CPA exam credit-hour requirements and economic competitiveness on state-level exam candidate pools and pass rates,” Accounting Education, online first on Sep 25, 2019 at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09639284.2019.1670685?needAccess=true . .

Zhang, T . and Acs, Z. (2019). “Does generation matter for entrepreneur types: Four generations of entrepreneurs”, Southern Economic Journal, Online first on April 4, 2019. ABDC List Ranked “A”, MSB Tier 3. DOI: 10.1002/soej.12350.

Zhang, T. (2019) “Eight Types of ‘Baby Boomer’ Entrepreneurs”, Australian Journal of Career Development. 28(1). Published online Feb 19, 2019. ABDC List Ranked “B”, MSB Tier 2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1038416218810220 .

Zhang, T. (2019) “Workforce Training for Older Workers: Toward a Better Understanding of Older Worker Needs After the Great Recession,” Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations. Vol 25, Submitted on May 4, 2017, R&R on Sept 2, 2017, resubmitted on Nov 30, 2017. Accepted on Jan 29, 2018. ABS List Ranked “1”, MSB Tier 1.

Zhang, T . and Acs, Z. (2018). “Age and Entrepreneurship: Nuances from Entrepreneur Types and Generation Effects”, Small Business Economics, Springer, 51(4), pages 773-809. December. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0079-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0079-4 . https://rdcu.be/3fLs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-018-0079-4 . Online first on 20 July 2018. (Submitted on Oct 19, 2017. R&R on Dec 20. 2017 and May 14, 2018. Resubmitted on Feb 17, 2018, and then June 25, 2018. Accepted on June 25, 2018). ABDC List Ranked “A”, MSB Tier 3.

Zhang, T. and Gerlowski, D. (2018). “Welfare to Work Propensities: Administrative Record Evidence”, Applied Economics Letters, 25(20), pages 1458-1462. accepted on Jan 14, 2018; published online: 29 Jan 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1430309 . ABDC List Ranked “B”, MSB Tier 2.

Kang, Y., Miller, N., Tzeng , H. and Zhang, T. (2018). “Racial and Mental Disorders’ Impact on Older Patients’ Nursing Home Admissions upon Hospital Discharge,” Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 79(2018), 269-274, available online 5 July 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.07.003 . Elsevier, Impact factor 2.241.

Zhang, T . ( 2017) “The case for sustained investment in state longitudinal integrated data systems: The value of extended time span coverage”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 38 Issue: 4, pp.614-631, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-02-2016-0037 , published on Aug 2, 2017. ABDC List Ranked “A”, MSB Tier 3.

Zhang, T. Gerlowsk, D, and Ford, D. (2014) “Housing Price Variability: National and Local Impacts,” Applied Economics, Volume 46, Issue 28. Page 3494-3502, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.929628, Published online on July 18, 2014. Tier 3. Cited by 4 as of April 1, 2018. ABDC List Ranked “A”, MSB Tier 3.

Zhang, T. and Carr, D. (2014) “Does Working for Oneself, not Others, Improve Older Adults’ Health? An Investigation on Health Impact of Self-Employment”, American Journal of Entrepreneurship. Volume 7(1). Page 142–180. June, 2014. Cited by 3 as of April 1, 2018. MSB Tier 1.

Acs, Z., Armington, C, and Zhang, T. (2007), “The Determinants of New Firm Survival in Regional Economies: the Role of Regional Human Capital Stock and Knowledge Spillovers,” Papers in Regional Science, Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 86, Issue 3: 367-391. Cited by 174 as of April 1, 2018. ABDC List Ranked “A”, MSB Tier 3.

Zhang, T ., and Gerlowski, D. A. Ownership Stake Diffusion in Entrepreneur Teams. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Submitted on 06/27/2018. Tier 4 journal.

Zhang, T. and Stough, R. (R&R), “Digitization, Age, and Entrepreneur Types,” Technological Forecasting & Social Change. R&R in Aug 2019. Tier 3 journal.

Zhang, T. , Carr, D. and Kang, Y. (R&R). “I am in control now: Health Impact of Self-Employment among Older Workers,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review. R&R in Sep 2019. Tier 4 journal.

Zhang, T. and Stough, R. (invited), “Digitization, Age, and Entrepreneurship,”Annals of Regional Science. Invited and submitted in Sep 2019. Tier 2 journal.

Selected Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Zhang, T. (2019, forthcoming). “Heterogeneous Boomer Entrepreneurs” in Maâlaoui, A. (ed),

Handbook of Research on Elderly Entrepreneurship , Springer. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030133337 . DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13334-4.

eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13334-4, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13333-7. Accepted on Feb 1, 2019.

Zhang, T. and Acs, Z. (2019, Decemberr forthcoming). “Different Age Effects by Entrepreneur Types: An Investigation on U.S. Boomer Entrepreneurs” in Karlsson, C, Backman, M, & Kekezi, O. (eds),

Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Ageing , Edward Elgar. Accepted on Oct 29, 2018.

Zhang, T. (2018). “Data Synthesis,” in Laurie A. Schintler and Connie L. McNeely (Eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data, Springer. Invited on Jan 19, 2017. Accepted on Jan 03, 2018. Published online on Jan 11, 2018. Available at the World Wide Web https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_503-1 .

Zhang, T. (2018, invited). “Probabilistic Matching,” in Laurie A. Schintler and Connie L. McNeely (Eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data, Springer. Submitted on April 19, 2017. Published on March 28, 2018. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_501-1 .

Zhang, T. (2019, forthcoming). “SNAP, Unemployment Compensation and Work for Maryland SNAP Households”, In Stevens, D. and Wiseman, M. (Eds) Helping Together:
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and Unemployment Insurance Programs During the Great Recession and Beyond.
Upjohn Institute Publication. Invited and submitted in November, 2016, now under editor’s final proof.

Zhang, T. (2017). “State Longitudinal Data System,” in Laurie A. Schintler and Connie L. McNeely (Eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data, Springer. Invited in Jan, 2017. Accepted on April 23, 2017. Published on May 08, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_495-1. Available at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_495-1 .

Zhang, T. (2017). “Integrated Data System,” in Laurie A. Schintler and Connie L. McNeely (Eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data, Springer. Invited in Jan, 2017. Accepted on April 23, 2017. Published on May 08, 2017, DOI10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_494-1, Available at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_494-1 .

Zhang, T. (2015) “What Drives Post-Retirement Age Self-Employment? An Investigation of Social, Policy and Individual Factors,” in N. Sappleton and F. Lourenço (ed). Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 978-1-137-39837-6. April, 2015. Cited by 1 as of April 1, 2018.

Zhang, T. and Naylor, L. (2015). Missing Women of China: Persistence of Gender Inequity in China. In Johnson III, Richard Greggory (ed.), China’s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change . Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4331-1616-2 pb. (Softcover), ISBN 978-1-4331-1617-9 hb. (Hardcover). July 29, 2015.

Molinari, C. and Zhang, T., (2015). Long-term Care delivery and management: Workforce Implications.” In Fottler, M. Malvey, D. and Slovensky, D (Eds) Handbook of Healthcare Management, Edward Elgar. ISBN: 978 1 78347 014 3, November 2015.

Zhang, T. (2013). “Culture Matters to Entrepreneurship Policies: Entrepreneurship Policies in the U.S. versus China,” in Zhang, T. and Stough, R. (Ed), Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in China, New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific. January, 2013.

Zhang, T., Stough, R. and Song, C. (2013). “Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in China: Introduction,” in Zhang, T. and Stough, R. (Ed), Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in China, New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific. January, 2013.

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