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Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, PhD, is a professor of Gerontology and has held the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar's Chair at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1988.He teaches Economic Issues in Aging Populations, a required course in the Ph.D. program in Gerontology, and Economic Security of the Aged, an elective.For many years he taught at UCLA, where he received a Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award (Economics).Professor Chen is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America (a past chair of the economics of aging interest group and founding editor of its newsletter), a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a member of Sigma Phi Omega (national honor society in gerontology), as well as Omicron Delta Epsilon (international honor society in economics).Serving on the editorial board of Aging Today and of the Journal on Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Income, he has lectured at several universities in Asia and Europe.Born and raised in China and a graduate of National Taiwan University, Professor Chen earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.