Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and the Wang Yannan Institute of Economic Research of Xiamen University, focusing on labor economics, applied econometrics (causal inference), and China's economy.

      I graduated from the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University in July 2005, majoring in Quantitative Economics, and received Ph.D. degree in Economics. 2009.9-2010.12, I worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Economics, Cornell University, and 2018.9-2019.9, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, USA.       

      I have published more than 30 papers in major domestic and international journals such as Economic Research, Economics (Quarterly), Quantitative and Technical Economic Research, World Economy, China Economic Review, Asian Development Review, Economic Research, Economics (Quarterly), Management World, World Economy, Southern Economy, and so on. World Economy, Southern Economy, Finance and Trade Studies, China Economic Issues and other journals.

PhD students: Undergraduate and graduate students with a good foundation in mathematics, proficiency in R and Python, and an interest in causal inference and labor economics are welcome to apply.

For Foreign Students who are interested in SOE and WISE International Graduate Program.  Please note the following information: 

The acceptance letter is not issued by a single professor. Instead, the program committee has a pre-screening process to give the student who passes the process a conditional offer with an acceptance letter. 

For more information about the pre-screening process, please contact the program coordinator Ms. Min Zeng (zengmin@xmu.edu.cn).