Resume

Education

[2024/9]- Now

[Hong Kong Institute of Humanity and Social Science, The University of Hong Kong]

[Ph.D. Student]

• Focus:Development Economics/ Economic History / Labor Economics

  Current Topics:

1. Entrepreneurs' network and its role in the latecomer countries'  industrialization (with Sangyoon Park and Shao-yu Jheng)  

2.  The reform of females' inheritance rights, media coverage, and its effect on long-term female empowerment 

3.  Shanxi merchants and Outer Mongolia's rebels (with Zhi Xie) 

4.  Silver inflow and the shock to the Ming Dynasty (With Yuzheng Wang and Junxian Wang)

[ 2020/9 ] - [ 2023/5 ]

[ Korean Development Institute, School of Public Policy and Management (KDI School)] 

[ Master of Development Policy (Global Dual-master Programme) ]

• Focus: Development Economics/Economic History

•  Main Courses: Impaction Evaluation Method, Introduction to Data Science for Policymaking using R， Programming fundamentals using Python, Korea’s Microdata Analytics for Public Policy, Economics Growth in Historical Perspective, Advanced Microeconomics(Ph.D core course)， Advanced Macroeconomics (Ph.D. core course)

• Thesis: Colonial Education and Industrialization: Evidence from the Korean Peninsula in 1930

• The working paper based on the master thesis was selected in the 9th International Symposium on Quantitative History (Shanghai, July 2023) and the Korean Economic History Society Summer Conference(Seoul, August 2023)

Photo Gallery at South Korea and KDI School ~

[2019/9-2020/8]

[ Evans School of Public Policy and Management, University of Washington ] 

[ Master of Public Administration(Global Dual-master Program) ]

• Focus: International Development(Human Capital and Economic Growth) 

• Main Courses: Causal inference， Quantitative Analysis 1 and 2, Economics in Public Policy and Management 1 and 2, Program evaluation, Managing Politics and Policy Processing, GIS and public policy (ArcGIS practice)

Capstone: Birth Order, the Distribution of Parent-children Interaction, and the Early Development of Children – Evidence from Chinese Family Panel Studies 2010-2018 

 Photo Gallery at the University of Washington ~

[ Shanghai Normal University] 

[ Bachelor of Art in Economics]

• The winner of 1st prize at the province-level tournament and the 3rd prize at the national final of the 10th ”Challenge Cup” college student academic research competition

• Minor in Law, East China University of Political Science and Law

Teaching Experience

Business School/Institute of Humanity and Social Science, The University of Hong Kong -- Teaching Assistant

MFWM7002: History of the Family and Family Business Dynasties (2024.9-2024/11)

KDI School - Teaching Assistant

• Introduction of Development Policy (2021.9 – 2021.12)

• Programming Fundamentals using Python (2022.2 – 2022.5)

 My Book "沪港世纪争产战" was published during the CUHK RA period

Academic Working Experiences

[ 2018-2019 ]

[ Research Associate, School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University ]

Job Duty:

• Mainly responsible for the research work assigned by the PI and the daily operation of the entire team Research concerning: Policy analysis and evaluation (China’s innovation-encouraging policy)

•  Conduct the research duty under the supervision of the principal investigator (such as data cleaning, model building, and literature review writing)

• Providing research assistance: Branstetter, L. G., Li, G., Ren, M. (2023). Picking winners? Government subsidies and firm productivity in China. Journal of Comparative Economics

[ 2013-2017 ]

[ Senior Research Assistant，Social and Political Development Research Center, Institute of Asia-pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (HKIAPS, CUHK)

•  Research topics: The litigations about female inheritance rights in the early modern time of China; China’s philanthropy history

•   Accomplishments: Independently complete the study of the Hardoon Family’s case (the most influential inheritance dispute case in the Far East area in the 1930s-40s. It’s the first case to confirm and protect female inheritance rights), publish one book, three articles in the conference proceeding, and many newspaper articles.

Other Activities:

•   Part-time columnist for Hong Kong Economic Journal (cooperating with Professor Terence Tai-Leung Chong from CUHK), The articles mainly focus on the progress of RMB internationalization, public finance, and public policy in Hong Kong SAR

•    Participate in research projects concerning the countries under the "Belt and Road initiatives" and the preparation of international conferences on this topic 

Skills

•  Programming software: Advanced-skill user of Stata and Python; intermediate-skill user of R, ArcGIS

•  Editing Software: Overleaf (Latex), Typora (R markdown)

Languages

• English - Proficient, able to speak fluently, deliver speeches, and good at academic writing

• Other languages and dialects: Japanese and Korean, native speaker of Shanghainese and Cantonese