Market structure, tariff passthrough and household welfare in urban china, with jun han, runjuan liu, and junsen zhang, journal of international economics, 100, 2016, 220232. Zhang works in the field of environmental and resource economics. Because the onechild policy applies only to the han chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the onechild policy on the increase in sex ratios by using a differenceindifferences dd estimator. Public housing, school segregation, and childrens education. Technology and gender in the manufacturing sector, with. Crossley european university institute verified email at. The mit press is a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts. His research both theoretical and empirical has focused on the economics of family behaviour, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers, marital transfers, gender bias, and oldage support pensions. We find an increasing pattern in intergenerational income persistence across chinas transitional period. Chapter in nber book the economic consequences of demographic. I am a professor of economics at clark university, specializing in urban and regional economics. Midterm 312 and final 425 exams are both inclass and opennotes. Junsen zhang is a professor of economics at the chinese university of hong kong.
Dennis tao yang, junsen zhang, and shaojie zhou dennis tao yang is professor of business administration at the university of virginia. Junfu zhang professor of economics at clark university. To enable a smooth transition, his position was already filled earlier this year by appointing shuaizhang feng jinan university. Curriculum vitae personal information university of. Labour market transitions in urban china, junsen zhang principal investigator. The evolution of chinas onechild policy and its effects. Comments should be addressed by email to the authors. Junsen zhang the chinese university of hong kong verified email at cuhk.
First, we consider a field experiment conducted by swedens monopoly alcohol retailer and find that moving purchases from behind the counter to selfservice disproportionately increases the sales of difficulttopronounce products. This pdf is a selection from a published volume from the. For supplementary materials such as appendices, datasets, and author disclosure statements, see the article page at. Estimating the effect of the onechild policy on the sex.
Zhang, jie and zhang, junsen 2005 the effect of life expectancy on fertility, saving, schooling and economic growth. We find that the birth rate has a negative impact on economic growth. Junsen zhang is currently wei lun professor of economics in the department of economics, chinese university of hong kong. Although studies on economic inequality and intergenerational mobility have gained traction in the last decade, little is known about the temporal changes in the intergenerational association of economic status, especially in developing and transitional economies. Human development research paper 200927 inequality and.
Douglas almond, lena edlund, hongbin li, junsen zhang. Rosenzweig, junsen zhang, do population control policies induce more human capital investment. Shaojie zhou is assistant professor in the school of public policy and management at tsinghua university. The scarcity of women and the competition for highincome men in chinese cities. Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Analysis of chinese macroeconomy is a book written by fengbo zhang, a leading chinese economist. Economic returns to schooling in urban china, 1988 to. Junsen zhang department of economics chinese university of. Junsen zhang department of economics chinese university of hong kong shatin, n. Occupational segregation and wage differentials between urban residents and rural migrants in shanghai, journal of. From 1989 to 1990, he was a lecturer of econometrics at the australian. Wing chuen suen faculty of business and economics hku. From 1990 to 1993, he was an assistant professor of economics at the university of western ontario.
Cuhk, 2008 12 graduate labor economics, duke university, 1994 2000 graduate, methods in applied economics, virginia tech, 2006 07 graduate applied microeconomics, virginia tech, 2002 06 m. Books recent books earlier books by decade browse books by series. Professor jie zhang school of economics university of. My research interests include urbanization in china, regional development, entrepreneurship and job creation, hightech industrial clusters, and racial housing segregation. Zhang junsen on economics and society cuhk newsletter. Junsen zhang ideasrepec research papers in economics. Although scarcity of females is commonly believed to be a source of male antisocial. The evolution of chinas onechild policy and its effects on family outcomes junsen zhang is the wei lun professor of economics, chinese university of hong kong, shatin, hong kong. Chapters in edited books \oceans and the energy market, in ivar ekeland. Beyza ural marchand university of alberta department of economics department of economics.
Rosenzweig is the frank altschul professor of economics at the department of economics, yale university. Department of economics research reports economics. Using the 1990 census, we find that the strict enforcement of the one. Demographic age structure and economic development. The quantityquality tradeoff of children in a developing country. Zhang junsen wei lun professor of economics chairman, department of economics fellow of the econometric society why did you switch to economics in graduate school after obtaining a first degree in engineering. Junsen zhang is professor of economics at the economics department of the chinese university of hong kong and. Recent journal of development economics articles elsevier. Cable television and womens status in india, quarterly journal of. Economic returns to schooling in urban china, 1988 to 2001.
Translated into chinese and published by tsinghua university press, beijing. His research program has three distinctive features. In july 2015, he was one of the three economists selected for facetoface dialogue with premier li keqiang in beijing zhang also publishes widely. The effects of gender control on fertility and childrens consumption, james b. We would like to thank janet currie, andrew gelman, hilary hoynes, takatoshi ito, robert. The economic consequences of demographic change in east. After 19 years of dedicated work he moves on to work as one of the coeditors of the journal of human resources.
Edlund, lena, hongbin li, junjian yi, and junsen zhang. Economics letters, 2001, 72, 2, 269277 view citations 16 mortality decline and longrun economic growth journal of public economics, 2001, 80, 3, 485507 view citations 116 the identification of unobservable independent and spousal leisure journal of political economy, 2001, 109, 1, 191202 view citations 19 see also working paper. This paper examines the impact of the birth rate on economic growth by using a panel. Motivated by poverty, most people of my generation studied extremely hard when china resumed its college entrance examination system. Using data from the chinese population census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in china. Junsen zhang is professor of economics at the economics department of the chinese university of hong kong, president of the hong kong economics association, email.
The simple model predicts a negative effect of hp on the number of children for a representative household not only through the income effect but also through the compensated substitution effect. Junsen zhang chinese university of hong kong has been one of the editors of the journal of population economics since 2001. The mixed strategy nash equilibrium, value of winning, risk aversion, and the falseconsensus. Over the same period, sex ratios males to females in the crimeprone ages of 1625 years rose sharply, from 1. Human development research paper 200937 brain drain, brain gain, and economic growth in china wei ha, junjian yi. Graduate development economics, virginia tech, 2001. Journal of international economics vol 100, pages 1234. Announcement regarding changes in the way regular issues and volumes are compiled at the journal of international economics page 233 download pdf. Publications books with eugene silberberg the structure of economics. In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in china to quantify the tradeoff between the quality and quantity of. Junsen zhang is the wei lun professor of economics at the chinese university of hong kong. No 2082, iza discussion papers from institute of labor economics iza abstract.
Using the longitudinal structure of earnings to estimate the effect of training programs on earnings. Journal of comparative economics 33 4, 730752, 2005. Author links open overlay panel xin meng a junsen zhang b. The tradeoff between spousal income and spousal height. Recently published articles from journal of development economics. Pdf gender preference, biased sex ratio, and parental. Evidence from hong kong, frontiers of economics in china, higher education press, vol. Jun, runjuan liu, and junsen zhang, journal of international economics, 100, 2016, 220232. Do population control policies induce more human capital. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth order effect. Faculty of science revised course syllabus department of. Zhang, junsen, zhao, yaohui, park, albert, and song, xiaoqingeconomic. Li, and zhang, w384 longterm effects of the 19591961 china famine. Li, gender bias and economic development in an endogenous growth model, journal.
Notes on the microfoundations of monetary economics, david laidler. Do population control policies induce more human capital investment. The first citizen of the peoples republic of china to receive a ph. University of oklahoma, norman, oklahoma, united states email le wang labor economics. This article extends a standard beckerian model of fertility behavior to formulate the effect of house price hp on fertility. He is also a member of special advisory committee to shanghai municipal government. Lets agree that all dictatorships are equally bad, uzi segal. Mit press books and journals are known for their intellectual daring, scholarly standards, and distinctive design. Duke kunshan university, kunshan, china email junjie zhang. The optimal timing of procurement decisions and patent allocations, motty perry and daniel. Jie zhang and junsen zhang, longevity and economic growth in a dynastic family model with an annuity market, economics letters, august 2001 722. The quantityquality tradeoff of children in a developing. D in economics 2017, california institute of technology associate professor of economics, institute for social and economic research, nanjing audit university. Edlund, lena, hongbin li, junjian yi and junsen zhang, sex ratios and crime.
The prediction is confirmed by a cointegration analysis. Nsfrgc earmarked grant, hong kong, 20022006, economic reforms and. Of all published articles, the following were the most read within the past 12 months. Junsen zhang is the wei lun professor of economics at the department of economics, chinese university of hong kong. From 1989 to 1990, he was a lecturer of econometrics at the australian national university. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. Published with an instructors manual by the same authors, new york. He is particularly interested in developing applied econometric models to answer the realworld environmental and resource policy questions. Human development research paper 200937 brain drain. Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs with. The mixed strategy nash equilibrium, value of winning, risk aversion, and the falseconsensus effect, with gahye jeon.
In china, the malebiased sex ratio has increased significantly. Chinese university of hong kong, new territories, hong kong email zheng michael song. Evidence from chinas onechild policy crime rates almost doubled in china between 1992 and 2004. Since china embarked its economic reform starting 1978, the chinese economy has. Hongbin li is a professor of economics at tsinghua university. Zhang is the founding director of the china center for economic studiescces, a shanghaibased thinktank for chinese economy. Fengbo zhang introduced western economics to china and advised top chinese leaders in policymaking. Rising intergenerational income persistence in china. Readings labor economics i economics mit opencourseware. Dominance and achievement on standardized tests in china, with man xie and ruixin wang trophy mates, with yu yang and junsen zhang. Junsen zhang is professor of economics in the department of economics and the institute of economics, the chinese university of hong kong, shatin, n. Thus, the sample averages are reasonably close to those reported in the statistical yearbooks.