Jin Wang
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Jin Wang
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Development Economics; Public Economics; Chinese Economy
SHORT BIO
Jin Wang is an associate professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research, which mostly has a policy focus, is mainly in the areas of Development Economics, Public Economics and Chinese Economy. She worked on a variety of topics – place-based policies, government hierarchy and incentives, and the labor mobility barriers that are embedded in the hukou household registration system of China. Her work has appeared in a range of leading economics journals including Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Comparative Economics.
SELECTED PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
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Lin Yang, Yatang Lin, Jin Wang and Fangyuan Peng (2023),“Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology-aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?” Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
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Pei Li, Yi Lu and Jin Wang (2020), “The Effects of Fuel Standards on Air Pollution: Evidence from China”, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 146, 102488.
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L. Rachel Ngai, Christopher Pissarides and Jin Wang (2019), “China’s Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(5):1617–1653.
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Yi Lu, Jin Wang and Lianming Zhu (2019), ”Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China’s Economic Zone Program”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(3): 325–360.
