Wenbo Zou (邹文博)

I am a research fellow (equivalent to associate professor) at the School of Economics at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.

My research field was development economics during my Ph.D. study in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis; For my Ph.D. dissertation, I conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment between couples in rural Burkina Faso in west Africa under the advising of Michael Carter and Travis Lybbert. After joining Nankai, I switched my focus to behavioral and experimental economics. I've been working on the social aspects of decision-making, such as interpersonal information transmission and social preferences. More recently, the topics I'm interested in include time and risk preferences, reference dependence, and randomization.

Please email me at joyque.zou[at]gmail.com.

Publications

A united family prospers: Intrahousehold economic discord, household income and child growth in Burkina Faso, by Wenbo Zou, Travis Lybbert, and Stephen Vosti, published online at Journal of Development Studies, May 2025. [Link] [Working paper version]
Measuring welfare and spillover effects of rank information [link], by Wenbo Zou and Wenzheng Gao, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2023), 216, 187-220.
Ingroup bias in a social learning experiment [link], by Wenbo Zou and Xue Xu, Experimental Economics (2023), 26, 7–54.
Online markets and trust [link], by Wenbo Zou, Jinjie Wang, and Jubo Yan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022), 201, 395-412.
Do Tobin taxes help stop stock price bubbles? [Link], by Lucy Ackert, Li Qi and Wenbo Zou, Journal of Financial Economic Policy (2022), 14 (3), 269-282.
Early childhood nutrition, parental growth perceptions and educational aspirations in rural Burkina Faso [Link], by Wenbo Zou, Travis Lybbert, Stephen Vosti and Souheila Abbeddou, Journal of Development Studies (2020), 56 (4), 798-816.
Natural disasters, social protection, and risk perceptions [Link], by Phil Brown, Adam Daigneault, Emilia Tjernström and Wenbo Zou (authors in alphabetic order), World Development (2018), 104, 310-325.

Working papers

Generative AI Adoption in Human Creative Tasks: Experimental Evidence [link], by Wenbo Zou and Feng Zhu, R & R at JEBO.

Permanent working papers

Motivated belief updating of norms [Link], by Wenbo Zou and Haiying Qin. [The study in this working paper has been translated into Chinese and published at 南开经济研究 (see below for the publication in Chinese).]
Risk as Excuses to Postpone Effort-Provision. [New experimental session were conducted, and they can't be reconciled with the experimental results in this working paper under its framework. New work with even more sessions trying to reconcile the contradictory results under a new framework is coming soon!]

Pre-doctoral publications

Economic valuation of health impact of PM10 pollution in Beijing from 2001 to 2006 [link], by Wenbo Zou and Shiqiu Zhang. Chinese Journal of Population and Resources and Environment (2010), 8 (2), 68-74.

中文发表

孟景轶，邹文博 (通讯作者)，秦海英 ; 动机驱动的规范信念更新, 南开经济研究, 2024, 2014(12): 247-264

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