Anson Zhou
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong.
My research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Family Economics.
Before joining HKU in Fall 2023, I was a postdoc fellow in Long-Term Fiscal Policy at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (HCEO) since 2021.
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: December 2024] (slides)
The Autumn of Patriarchy [This version: December 2024] (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)
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 Race between Structural Transformation and Social Norm, with Xican Xi
Inequality, Human Capital, and Marketization of Home Production
Malthus Meets Romer: Population Growth Without Common Knowledge
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