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 and a faculty associate of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies both at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was educated at the Tsinghua University of China for her BA and MA in Economics before getting 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 (Special Economic Zones), government hierarchy and incentives, and the labor mobility barriers that are embedded in the hukou household registration system of China. She serves as a referee for the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, and Journal of Comparative Economics.
SELECTED PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
- Pei Li, Yi Lu and Jin Wang (2016), "Does Flattening Government Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from China", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 123, page 18-37.
- Jin Wang (2013), “The Economic Impact of Special Economic Zones: Evidence from Chinese Municipalities”, Journal of Development Economics, vol.101, page 133-147.
- Mingzhi Li and Jin Wang (2009), "China's Telecommunications Industry: Transformation and Challenges", in Peter Wilson (ed.), Policies and Social Welfare in the 21st Century: Challenges and Responses for China and Thailand, Singapore: Cengage Learning Asia.
- Yi Lu, Jin Wang and Lianming Zhu (2018), “Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China’s Economic Zone Program”, Forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
- L. Rachel Ngai, Christopher Pissarides and Jin Wang (2018), “China’s Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations”. Forthcoming at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
