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Please e-mail me at q.zhang@federation.edu.au for a copy of any of the articles not available online.
Working Papers
Persistent and Transient Inefficiency in China’s Provincial Energy Demand: A Four-component Stochastic Frontier Model
Medical Corruption and Health Crises: Evidence from the Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria
Fine Particles and Attention Drift: Evidence from One Million Online Lecture Records
Selected Journal Articles
2026. Household Adaptation to Economic Transformation: The Role of Financial Inclusion in Enhancing Welfare. Review of Economics of the Household.
2026. Water stress and industrial firm productivity (with R. Smyth, Y. Yao and X. Yu). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 138: 1-38.
2025. Riding the asset wave: The stock and house price relationship in the G7 (with S. Churchill, K. Ivanovski and K. Mintah). International Review of Economics and Finance, 104:1-16.
2024. Entrepreneurship and subjective wellbeing in China: Exploring linkages and potential channels (with I. Koomson and K. Prakash). Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21:1-10.
2023. Social R&D: Does Academic Freedom Contribute to Improved Societal Outcomes? (with A. Posso). Information Economics and Policy. 63: 1-12.
2023. The impact of financial development on house prices (with S. Churchill, K. Ivanovski and K. Mintah). The World Economy. 46(10): 3154-3181.
2022. R&D intensity and income inequality in the G7: 1870-2016 (with S. Churchill, B. Peng and R. Smyth). Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 69(3): 263-282.
2022. Social capital inequality and subjective wellbeing of older Chinese (with R. Smyth, S. Churchill and S. Appau). Social Indicators Research, 160: 541-563.
2021. Transport infrastructure and house prices in the long run (with S. Churchill, K. Baako and K. Mintah). Transport Policy. 112: 1-12.
2021. Adverse shocks, household expenditure and child marriage: Evidence from India and Vietnam (with T. Trinh). Empirical Economics, 61(3): 1617-1639.
2021. Energy poverty, children’s wellbeing and the mediating role of academic performance: Evidence from China (with S. Appau and P. L. Kodom). Energy Economics. 97, 105206.
2021. When Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Weather and Air-Conditioning (with C. Guven, H. Yuan and V. Aksakalli). Energy Economics, 98, 105216.
2021. The determinants of bank branch location in India: An empirical investigation (with R. Arora and S. Colombage). International Journal of Bank Marketing, 39(5): 856-870.
2020. Income inequality and subjective wellbeing: Panel data evidence from China (with S. Churchill). China Economic Review, 60: 1-10.
2019. Thinking inside the box: A closer look at financial inclusion and household income (with A. Posso). Journal of Development Studies, 55(7): 1616-1631.
2019. Banking in the shadows: A comparative study of China and India (with R. Arora). Australian Economic History Review, 59(1): 103-131.
2017. Does microfinance reduce poverty? Some international evidence. The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 17(2): 1-13.
Supervisor Projects
3 PhD current supervision
Supervisor Interests
Development Economics, Applied Micro-econometrics; Public Policy, Inequality, the Economy of China