Academic Employment
Associate Professor with Tenure, Peking University, 2022 -
Assistant Professor, Emory University, 2021 - 2022
President’s Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2017- 2022
Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2016-2017
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2016
M.A. in Economics with distinction, Peking University, 2011
B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Economics with distinction, Peking University, 2008
Academic Affiliations and Other Employment
Editor, Economics of Transition, 2018 - Present
Associated Editor, Journal of Health Economics, 2025 - Present
Associated Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Present
Associated Editor, China Economic Review, 2021 - Present
Guest Editor, China Economic Review, Journal of Asian Economics, 2021
Fellow, China Center for Economics of Human Development, 2018 - Present
Research Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2014 – Present
Board of Directors, The Chinese Economists Society (CES), 2016 – 2017
NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, 2013 – 2014
Inequality Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, 2013 – 2016
Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard University, 2013 – 2015
Student Affiliate at Institute for Quantitative Social Science 2012 – 2016
Grants and Projects
2024 Subproject PI of the Major Social Science Project “Research on the Primary Focus and Policy Support for Accelerating the Formation of New-Quality Productivity” 社科重大项目“加快形成新质生产力的主攻方向与政策保障研究”子课题负责人 (Subproject PI)
2024 Special Project on Digital and Humanities: Digital Economy Empowering Human Capital and High-Quality Economic Development 2024年数字与人文专项课题：数字经济赋能人力资本与经济高质量发展 (PI)
2024 Planned Textbook Econometrics: Applied Micro Perspectives and Chinese Cases 2024年规划教材项目 《计量经济学：应用微观视角及中国案例》 (PI)
2024-2027 Human Capital Externalities and High-Quality Economic Growth: Phenomena, Mechanisms and Impacts, NSFC General Program 自科面上项目: 人力资本外部性与经济高质量增长：现象、机制和影响 (PI)
2024-2025 Peking University Fourth Batch of AI-Enhanced Curriculum Development Project (General Project): Development of an Auxiliary Teaching System Based on Large Language Models 北京大学第四批（2024年）人工智能助推课程建设项目(一般项目): 基于大语言模型的辅助教学体系建设 (PI)
2023-2024 Peking University Tong Shan Education Fund Research Grant Project (Key Project): The Long-Term Individual Impact of the Sino-Japanese War 北京大学桐山教育基金研究资助课题(重点项目): 中日战争的个体长期影响 (PI)
2024-2025 Empowering Digital Economy, Enhancing Human Capital, and Online Shopping Consumption, Peking University Digital Finance Research Center 北京大学数字金融研究中心课题：数字经济赋能、人力资本提升与网购消费 (PI)
2024-2025 ADB-PRC project：Responding to Demographic Pressures by Strengthening the Policy Framework Addressing the Low Fertility Landscape (Team Leader)
2024 Undergraduate Education Reform Project：”Practical Reform of the ‘Economic Research Training’ Course” 北京大学24年本科教改项目-《经济学研究训练》课程实践化改革 (PI)
2023-2026 An Economic Analysis and Public Policy Assessment of China’s Declining Birthrate and Aging Population, NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas) 海外优青项目：中国少子化和老龄化的经济学分析与公共政策评估 (PI)
2023 Undergraduate Education Reform Project： “Exploring the Reform of the ‘Econometrics’ Course” 北京大学23年本科教改项目-《计量经济学》课程改革探索 (PI)
2023-2024 Digital Finance, Retirement Shock, and Asset Allocation among Middle-aged and Elderly, Peking University Digital Finance Research Center 北京大学数字金融研究中心课题：数字金融、退休冲击与中老年资产配置 (PI)
2023-2024 Research on Population Development Strategy: Classification and Estimation of the Cost of Childbearing in China, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (人口发展战略研究——我国生育代价的分类和估算, 卫健委) (PI)
2023 Teaching Project for the Graduate Course “Empirical Strategies” at Peking University 2023年北京大学研究生课程《实证策略》建设立项（CI）
2022-2024 Policy Analysis for Healthy Aging in China, Peking University Start-up Fund 北京大学学科建设项目, 中国健康医疗养老政策实证研究 (PI)
2017-2021 Public Policies, Human Capital, and Social Welfare Outcomes, NUS Start-up Fund (PI)
Honors and Awards
2024 The 9th Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) - Young Achievers Award 第九届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖(人文社会科学)-青年成果奖
2024 ICBC Teaching Award - Outstanding Scholar Award at Peking University 2024年北京大学中国工商银行奖教金-杰出学者奖
2023 Annual Scholar of the China Youth Agricultural Economists Forum 2023年中国青年农业经济学家论坛年度学者
2023 Masahiko Aoki Award for Economics Papers 2023年第四届青木昌彦经济学论文提名奖
2020 Zhang Peigang Award for Young Scholars in Development Economics 2020年第三届张培刚发展经济学青年学者奖
2018 Innovative Leading Talent (Short-Term) Project, Jiangxi Province ‘Double Thousand Plan’ 江西省“双千计划”创新领军人才（短期）项目
2016-2017 NBER Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Economics of an Aging Workforce
2015-2016 NBER Dissertation Fellowship on Economics of an Aging Workforce
2015-2016 Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award, Harvard University
2015 Extraordinary Potential Prize of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Chinese Ministry of Education
2011, 2014 Warburg Research Fund, Harvard University
2014 Poster Session Winner, Population Association of America
2013-2014 NBER Pre-doc Fellowship in Aging and Health Economics;
2013-2014 IQSS Graduate Research and Conference Travel Grant, Harvard University
2012 Cheung Yan Family Research Grant, Harvard University
Referee Activities
American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economics and Education Review, Economics and Human Biology, Economics of Transition, Economic Inquiry, Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research Policy, Science