Hi!  Welcome to my website. I completed my PhD in Economics at UCLA in June 2008.  I am currently an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Prior to my doctoral studies, I received my B.A. in international economics and M.A. in economic history at Peking University in 2000 and 2002, and M.A. in economics at UCLA in 2004.

          My research interests lie at the intersection of economic history, development economics, and macroeconomics. My research focuses on the processes and consequences of economic growth and development. I am particularly concerned with changes in real income, standards of living and inequality, and with the role that technological changes, globalization and human capital accumulation play in generating these trends.

          In my ongoing research projects, I am putting together the data of prices and wages in modern and pre-modern China to study the changes in the real wages and wage inequality in those eras. With these empirical findings, I am studying, from theoretical perspectives, the factors driving the changes in real wages and wage inequality, such as factor-biased technological changes, economic openness and globalization, and educational investments. While mainly focusing on historical or long-run economic issues, I also have strong interests in contemporary economic issues and policies in China as well as in other developing economies.

          I have been recently invited to give talks at various universities and conferences, such as Harvard Business School, University of Colorado at Boulder, HKUST, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Cliometrics Conference. I have also received various research grants and dissertation fellowships, such as the National Science Foundation (Grant SES-0433358) and Economic History Association (EHA) Dissertation Fellowship.  

          To be in touch, please send me an email here.