Wenbo Zou (邹文博)
I am an assistant professor at the Smith Lab of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, starting in September 2016.
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 have 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.
Working Papers
The Role of Generative AI in Human Creative Processes: Experimental Evidence [link], by Feng Zhu and Wenbo Zou, submitted.
A united family prospers: Intrahousehold economic discord, household income and child growth in Burkina Faso [Link], by Wenbo Zou, Travis Lybbert, and Stephen Vosti, revise and resubmit at Journal of Development Studies.
Motivated belief updating of norms [Link], by Wenbo Zou and Haiying Qin.
Publications
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.
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.