Anson Zhou

Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at HKU Business School. 

My research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Family Economics. 

CV You can find my CV here

Contact: zhouls [at] hku.hk

WORKING PAPERS


The Macroeconomic Consequences of Family Policies (under revision) Job market paper  [This version: December 2022] 

Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies


Asymmetric Fertility Elasticities, with Sam Engle and Chong Pang [This version: February 2025] (slides)


The Autumn of Patriarchy [This version: February 2025] (slides)


Teachers and the Evolution of Aggregate Inequality [This version: May 2024] (slides) 

PUBLICATIONS


Bounding Fertility Elasticities

Economics Letters, Volume 228, July 2023 (link to Working paper version)


Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth, with Ananth Seshadri

Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 129, 1-20, July 2022 (link to NBER Working Paper)


Staying at Home: Mobility Effects of COVID-19, with Sam Engle and John Stromme

Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 4, 86-102, April 2020 (link to County-level data, VoxEU article)

WORK IN PROGRESS


The Fertility Tug-of-War: Technology vs. Social Norms, with Xican Xi


Inequality, Human Capital, and Marketization of Home Production


Information Frictions and Population Growth

DISCUSSIONS


"Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany" (PHBS, December 2023)

by Sebastian Findeisen, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, Tommaso Porzio, Wolfgang Dauth