Junsen Zhang

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Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Junsen Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in economics from McMaster University in 1990. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Lecturer of Econometrics at the Australian National University. From 1990 to 1993, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Since 1993 he has been in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong, where he is currently an Chair Professor of Economics. His research has focused on the economics of family behaviour, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers, marital transfers, gender bias, and old-age support (pensions). He also works on family-related macro issues, such as ageing, social security, and economic growth. Using quantitative methods and many data sets from different countries (regions), either micro or macro, he has studied economic issues in Canada, USA, The Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, as well as China. He has published in the leading international refereed economics journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics and International Economic Review, and many leading field top journals such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources and Journal of Population Economics. He is an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and the President of the Hong Kong Economic Association.
Junsen Zhang joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 10519
Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang, Songfa Zhong
forthcoming in: Management Science, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9342
Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8711
Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Junjian Yi, James J. Heckman, Junsen Zhang, Gabriella Conti
published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (588), F347–F371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7293
Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
Yoram Weiss, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
revised version available here; forthcoming in: International Economic Review, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7026
Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Suqin Ge, Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5465
Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?
Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou
published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5149
Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3214
Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy
Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1520-1534.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3012
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang, Yi Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2118
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang, Ning Ma
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