Zhong Zhao

Research Fellow

Renmin University of China

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Zhong Zhao is an associate dean and a professor of economics at the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Renmin University of China and a doctorate degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins University. Before joined the Renmin University of China, he had worked for IZA as a Senior Research Associate. He also held faculty position at Peking University. His main areas of interest are labor economics, applied microeconometrics, social program evaluation and economy of China. His recent research topics on China include earnings instability and inequality, rural-urban disparity, rural-urban migration, labor relations, and health and health care reform in China. He has published in both international and Chinese economics journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) , Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics Letters, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of Comparative Economics. He is a recipient of the 2013 Kuznets Prize of the Journal of Population Economics.

He continues to maintain close ties to IZA as a Research Fellow after leaving the institute in December 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15857
Women's Education and Fertility in China
Zheyuan Zhang, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15616
Informal Institution Meets Child Development: Clan Culture and Child Labor in China
Can Tang, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14415
One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China
Jun Han, Zhong Zhao
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26(1), 57-84[Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14183
Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China
Xiang Ao, Xuan Chen, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 61, 101734
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14141
Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change
Peng Ge, Wenkai Sun, Zhong Zhao
slightly revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 168 - 190 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12374
Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China
Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 601–631 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11705
Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
Randall K. Q. Akee, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 87-105 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11074
What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Liang Zheng, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 46, 228-248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11029
Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10424
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10295
Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang, Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 101575 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9976
Child Labor in China
Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review,2018, 51, 149-166, [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9746
China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences
Fei Wang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1), 31-68 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9643
Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
Dongshu Ou, Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9621
The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, 53-77 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9397
Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Wang-Sheng Lee, Zhong Zhao
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9350
The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Xiang Ao, Dawei Jiang, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 126-139 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9116
The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 155-192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7251
Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Hong Liu, Qi Sun, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7160
Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Junfu Zhang, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6768
Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
Hong Liu, Zhong Zhao
published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6565
Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers
Jochen Kluve, Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
revised version published as 'The impact of training duration on employment outcomes: Evidence from LATE estimates' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (3), 487-490 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6528
Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
Hong Liu, Hai Fang, Zhong Zhao
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (3), 294–309 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5846
Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Hong Liu, Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2014, 31, 303-319 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5446
Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Junfu Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development.2015, 4:4 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5421
Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2014, 6(2), 316 - 334, [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3910
Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3659
Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition
Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3284
Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
Olivier Bargain, Sumon K. Bhaumik, Manisha Chakrabarty, Zhong Zhao
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55(1), 562-587 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3270
Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006
Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3255
Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (2), 587-617 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2975
The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
Richard W. Evans, Yingyao Hu, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2520
Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals: Evidence from Australia
Jian Wang, Zhong Zhao, Amir Mahmood
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2375
Matching Estimators and the Data from the National Supported Work Demonstration Again
Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1877
Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach
Zhong Zhao
published in: Zeng Yi et al. (eds.), Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions, 2008, Berlin et al. [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1873
Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications
Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 309-319 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1835
Health Determinants in Urban China
Zhong Zhao
substantially revised version (http://ftp.iza.org/dp1835_new.pdf) published as 'Health Demand and Health Determinants in China' in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, 6 (1), 77-98 [Details & Download]
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