Associate Professor

Department of Economics

916 K.K. Leung Building

The University of Hong Kong

Email:  njguo [at] hku [dot] hk

Research Interest:  Labor Economics, Family Economics

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D in Economics, 2014

Peking University, B.A. in Finance, 2009

Naijia Guo is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Finance from Peking University. Prior to joining HKU, Naijia was an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her primary research interests lie in labor economics and family economics, with a particular focus on structural labor. Her research spans a variety of topics, including labor supply and migration, intra-household decision-making, and human capital accumulation. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Econometrica, the Economic Journal, the International Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behaviors & Organization since 2023 and is scheduled to become co-editor of Labour Economics beginning in January 2026. She also serves as the Secretary of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE). 

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