Fangxu Duan

Hi, I’m Fangxu Duan.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Boston College, on the 2025–26 job market.

My research sits at the intersection of migration and fertility in labor economics. 

My job market paper estimates how fertility constraints shape households’ dynamic migration patterns, combining a difference-in-differences design with a dynamic joint discrete-choice model.

More broadly, I study how fertility decisions shape women’s and households' behaviors, as well as how different policy regimes affect labor mobility. My prior work includes a capstone project on Indonesian female migrants and a six-month appointment with the World Bank’s Migration & Remittances Team.

CV: CV_FangxuDuan.pdf JMP: JMP_FangxuDuan.pdf

References: Joanna Venator, Arthur Lewbel, Hanno Foerster

Contact: 📩 fangxu.duan@bc.edu or 🔗 LinkedIn