Jian Zou (pronounced: Jee-en Zoh)

I am a postdoctoral associate (labor & education) at the Cornell ILR School, working with Michael Lovenheim and Evan Riehl. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

I am an applied microeconomist who specializes in labor and education, working intensively on policy-relevant research.  One of my research agendas on labor/education focuses on human capital formation (e.g., how HC is affected by peers, peer parents, teachers, and school spending); while another agenda on public aims to understand the Chinese economy in the 2010s via studying the effects/consequences of various institutional reforms (e.g., internal migration).

Please check out the pipeline of my research below.