Rate My Professor Bing Jiang

Dr. Bing Jiang is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Virginia Military Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University in 2013, an M.A. from the University of Mississippi, another M.A. from Emory University, and a B.A. from South-Central University for Nationalities in China. Her career at VMI includes progression from assistant professor to associate professor, culminating in promotion to full professor in 2025. Dr. Jiang specializes in behavioral and experimental economics, with additional interests in public economics and microeconomics. Her scholarly output includes peer-reviewed publications such as “Do Pledges Lead to More Volunteering? An Experimental Study” with C.M. Capra and Y. Su in Economic Inquiry (2022), “An Anger Premium: An Experiment on the Role of Counterpart Emotions in Coordination” with X. Pan in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2023), “Green Self-image Boosts Online Volunteering for Environmental Causes: Experimental Evidence” with C.M. Capra and Y. Su in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2024), “Remembering the Other Fellow: Experimental Insights into Prosocial Preferences on Two Unique US Campuses” with S.K. Allen in Applied Economics Letters (2024), and “To Be a Blood Donor or Not to Be? Investigating Institutional and Student Characteristics at a Military College” with S.K. Allen in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2019). She also contributed to “Can Personality Type Explain Heterogeneity in Probability Distortions?” with C.M. Capra, J.B. Engelmann, and G.S. Berns in Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics (2013).

Dr. Jiang's contributions have earned her the VMI Jackson-Hope Prize for Excellence in Published Scholarly Work in 2024, the Honorary Paper Award at the 2012 International Association for Research in Economic Psychology Conference, and the Graduate Student Award at the 2012 Southern Economic Association Meetings. She has secured grants including the VMI Jackson-Hope Faculty Development Leave Grant and four VMI Faculty Grants-in-Aid of Summer Research. In teaching, she offers courses such as EC 201 Principles of Microeconomics, EC 300 Intermediate Microeconomics, EC 420 Behavioral Economics, EC 308 International Trade, and EC 303 Statistics. Professionally, she serves on the editorial board of Journal of Economic Science Research, referees for journals like Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Managerial and Decision Economics, organizes Economic Science Association sessions at Southern Economic Association meetings, and acts as liaison for the American Economic Association's CSWEP Committee. Her memberships include the American Economic Association, Economic Science Association, and Southern Economic Association.