Eddy (Weijian) Zou
Welcome!
I am an MRes/PhD Student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Research Scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
From September 2022 to August 2023, I was a Research Economist at the IFS.
You can reach me at w.zou2@lse.ac.uk
Publications
Is a UK Government commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals good for the economy and business in general? (with Brooklyn Han, Sally Yang, and Patrick Leitloff) pdf
Brown University Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 2022, vol. 3 Issue2
2020 UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) Renaissance Prize
Working Papers
Resource Cursed? The Short- and Long-run Effects of Coal Mining on Human Capital Accumulation in Indonesia [in submission]
Best Performance in LSE Quantitative Thesis (EC331) in 2022
Presentations: The 21st Carroll Round at Georgetown University (2022), University of Sydney SSEAC Emerging Scholars Conference (2022), 2023 University of Oxford Centre for Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference, 2023 Nordic Development Conference, 2023 German Development Conference
Public WASH Programs, Long-Run Child Development, and Intergenerational Mobility in China (with Dongqin Wang) [submitted]
Winning Paper, 2024 Asian Development Bank-IEA Innovative Research Award
Asian Development Institute WP: ADBI WP 1396 WP
Presentations: 2024 Japanese Association for Development Economist Conference, 2023 Asian Development Bank Conference, Applied Young Economist Webinar, Hongkong Economics Association Annual Meeting, WASH Econ Conference, Singapore Meeting of Econometric Society (Declined)
Ethnic Earnings Gaps among University-Educated Men in England (with Ben Waltmann, and Jack Britton)
Presentations: 2023 Sheffield Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Conference, 2023 York Workshop on Labour and Family Economics
Dynamic Effects of Health on Employment among Older Workers (with Richard Blundell, Jack Britton, Monica Costa Dias, and Eric French)
Michican Retirement Centre Working Paper WP
Resting Papers
Understanding Heterogeneous Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Liberalisation in India (with Bhargavee Das, and Ella Jenke) Draft embargoed
Can decentralisation be a force for bad? New evidence from environment clearances in India (with Brooklyn Han, Visheshika Baheti, Chloe Chong, and Naomi Sanders) SSRN
Presentations: LSE Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference (2021), University of Oxford MPhil Novel Ideas Seminar (2022)
Other Writings
Covid And The City: Intra-Hospital Transmission of Covid-19 (with Brooklyn Han, Stefanus Phan, and Callum Renton).