Address
9-223, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34426356
Email
Personal Web
https://sites.google.com/site/jinzhouecon/
Public CV
Qualifications
PhD - Economics (University of Western Ontario)
Biography
Jin Zhou's primary fields are Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and Development Economics. She currently focuses on research on the one of the largest early childhood interventions in the world: the China REACH project, especially on understanding the child skill development process, and designing and studying interventions aimed at accelerating the child learning process. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario and worked as postdotoral scholar at the University of Chicago.
Publications
Journal Publications and Reviews
ZHOU, Jin / A Study of Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning. February 2025; In: Journal of Political Economy.
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai / The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills. July 2024; In: Journal of Labor Economics.
Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale. July 2024; In: Journal of Econometrics. Vol. 243, No. 1-2
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai; Chang, Susan M.; Grantham-McGregor, Sally / Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program. May 2023; In: Pediatrics. Vol. 151, No. Supplement 2
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Wang, Fuyao; Liu, Bei / Early childhood learning patterns for a home visiting program in rural China. March 2023; In: Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 584-604
Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Identifying agent's information sets: An application to a lifecycle model of schooling, consumption and labor supply. April 2017; In: Review of Economic Dynamics. Vol. 25, pp. 58-92
Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works
Zhou, Jin; Baulos, Alison; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei / The economics of investing in early childhood: Importance of understanding the science of scaling. May 2021; The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It. pp. 76-97
Journal Article - Reviewing
Heckman, James; ZHOU, Jin / Nonparametric Tests of Dynamic Complementarity. 2023; revised and resubmitted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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