Contact
China Center for Economic Research Email: ddzhang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
National School of Development Office: (+86)10-6275-9779
Peking University
Beijing, 100871, China
Academic Positions
09/2012-present Assistant Professor
National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China
07/2009-12/2011 Post-doc Fellowship
Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
07/2003-07/2005 Assistant Professor
Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
Qualification
07/2005-12/2009 Ph.D. in Economics
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dissertation: Essays on Rural-to-Urban Migration and Its Consequences in Urban China
09/2000-07/2003 M.A. in Economics
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China
09/1996-07/2000 B.A. in Social Sciences
Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R.China
Research Fields
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Current Research Interests
Migration, Crime, Inequality, Gender Issues, Health, Chinese Labor Market
Main Publications
“China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity?”, Economic Journal, forthcoming (with Lisa Cameron, and Xin Meng)
“Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions”, Economic Journal, forthcoming (with Alison Booth, Elliott Fan, and Xin Meng)
“Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China’s Rural Elders”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1):70 - 88 (with Rachal Connelly, Michael Iannotti, and Margaret Maurer-Fazio)
“Education Inequality between Rural and Urban China, Migrants’ Children Education and Some Implications”, Asian Development Review, 2015, 32(1):1-29 (with Xin Li and Jinjun Xue)
“The Determinants of Migrant’s Crime: An Empirical Study Based on a Prison Survey” (in Chinese), China Economic Quarterly （《经济学（季刊）》）, 2014, 14(1):83-112. (with Ye Wang, Xin Meng and Lisa Cameron)
“Public investment in agricultural R&D and extension: an analysis of the effects on Australian broadacre productivity”, China Agricultural Economic Review, forthcoming (with Chunlai Chen and Yu Sheng)
“Economic Development, Energy Market Integration and Energy Demand: Implications for East Asia”, Energy Strategy Review, 2013, 30: 1-7. (with Yu Sheng and Xunpeng Shi)
“Chapter 9: Wage assimilation of rural migrant workers and gender differentials” (in Chinese), in L. Zhang, F. Du, and X. Dong (eds), Gender and Development: Empirical Research Methods, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2012, 200-227
“The Global Financial Crisis and Rural-urban Migration”, in Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), China Update, Brookings Institution Press, 2010, 241-268 (With Xin Meng and Tao Kong)
“A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority”, International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2): 138-162 (With Margaret Maurer-Fazio and James Hughes)
“Impact of Economic Slowdown on Migrant Workers”, in Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), China Update, Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 233-260 (With Xin Meng and Tao Kong)
“An Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China”, Feminist Economics, 2007, 13(34): 125-153 (With Margaret Maurer-Fazio and James W. Hughes)
Working Papers
“最低工资、流动人口失业与犯罪”， 北京大学国家发展研究院讨论稿系列，No.C2015009, Dec. 2015 (with Lixing Li and Chen Tong)
“The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8068, March 2014
“Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers”, IZA Discussion Paper, No. 5288, November 2010 (With Xin Meng)
“The Dynamic Change of Wage Gap between Urban Residents and Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities”, Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network - PMMA Working Paper 2010-03, February 2010
Selected Presentations and Seminars
Seminar at Jinan University (12/17); Seminar at Zhejiang University (12/17); Seminar at Shanghai Finance and Economics University (11/17); IZA/Volkswagen Foundation Workshop: Preferences, Personality Traits and the Labor Market (10/17); AEI-Five Joint Conference (05/17); Seminar at Capital Normal University (12/16); Seminar at Fudan University (04/16); Seminar at Renmin University (04/16); Nagoya International Workshop (10/15); The 17th NBER-CCER Conference (06/15); the 12th CWE International Workshop (06/15); Seminar at the Central University of Finance and Economics (06/15); AEI Joint Workshop (03/15); the 6th Workshop on the Economics of Health and Wellbeing (02/15); The Asian Development Review Conference 2014 (08/14); Seminar at the Nagoya University (07/14); ADB and NSD joint workshop on the New Phase of Chinese Reform and Growth (04/14); the 15th NBER-CCER Conference; IZA AM2 (06/13); Seminar at the Central University of Finance and Economics (03/13), College of Business and Economics Seminar at ANU (02/14, 07/13, 05/12)
Teaching
Intermediate Econometrics (Undergraduate level); Labor Economics (Postgraduate level)
Research Grant
“Research on Education and Health of Rural Migrant Children: Based on a Subjective Measure in Human Capital” granted by the Natural Science Fund –Youth Fund Project (国家自然科学基金委 青年科学基金项目) (No.71403009) 2015-2017
“Rural-to-Urban Migration and Crime in China” funded by the Australian National University and the Monash University, 2013-2016
“The role of cultural heritage on economic preferences in China and Taiwan” granted by the Australian National University, 2015
“The Legacy of Culture on the Economic Preferences of Men and Women in China” funded by the Australian National University and the Monash University, 2015-2017
