Education
PhD in Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
MEcon, University of Hong Kong
PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of London
BSc in Economics, University of London
Dip in Economics, University of London
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research interests
Applied Microeconomics: Human Capital, Family and Labour Economics, Sports Economics
Publications
An Economic Analysis of Tiger Parenting: Evidence from Child Developmental Delay or Learning Disability (with Yanyan Xiong and Junsen Zhang), Labour Economics, 2022
Gender Difference in Suicide, Household Production and Unemployment, Applied Economics, 2009
Working papers
To work or not to work: my child ranks dead last in school!
Physical Attractiveness and Gender Differences in Drug Taking (with Junsen Zhang) R&R at Canadian Journal of Economics
Parent-child Age Gap and Physical Punishment (with Junsen Zhang)
Why Beautiful Gamers are Rare? An Economics Analysis (with Daniel Hamermesh, Carl Singleton, Zhengxin Wang and Junsen Zhang) Preliminary
Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions (with Carl Singleton, Adrian Bell, James Reade and Andrew Urquhart)
Ongoing research projects
Native-immigrant earning gap (with Carl Singleton and Giovanni Razzu)
Home tiger in football (with James Reade and Carl Singleton)
Parenting style (with Junsen Zhang)
Child development (with Junsen Zhang)
Administrative roles
School Director of Recruitment and Admissions, School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Undergraduate Admission Tutor, Department of Economics
2023-2024 modules
Introductory Mathematics for Economics I (undergraduate)
Econometrics I (postgraduate)
Past modules at UoR
Money and Banking (undergraduate)
Microeconometrics II (postgraduate)
Microeconomic Policy (postgraduate)
Hobbies and interests
Traveling, watching (but not playing) football, reading history books, playing video games, playing Gundam model kits...
