Jian Zou (pronounced: Jee-en Zoh)

I am a postdoctoral associate (labor & education) at Cornell ILR School (Future of Work Fellowship Q&A), and a research affiliate at IZA@LISER. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

My PhD dissertation studies human capital formation = f (peers, peer parents, teachers, school finance), and I am currently working on the teacher labor market, returns to higher education, and the Chinese economy in the 2010s (see the papers below).