Assistant 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 Assistant 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. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behaviors & Organization and as an executive committee member of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics. Naijia's primary research interests encompass labor economics and family economics, with a specific focus on structural labor. Her research portfolio covers a diverse range of topics including labor supply and migration, intra-household decision-making, and human capital accumulation. Her work has been published (or forthcoming) in Econometrica, the Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Human Resources. She has been invited to the plenary sessions of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) 2024 Conference and the SOLE/EALE/AASLE World Labor Conference in 2025.

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