Publications (*=Corresponding Author)
1. Zhang, Wenjie, Xianqiang Zou*, Chuliang Luo & Lulu Yuan. (2024). “Hukou Reform and Labor Market Outcomes of Urban Natives in China.” Journal of Population Economics, 37:50.
2. Zhang, Chuanchuan*, Wenjie Zhang, Nan Li & Rudai Yang. (2021). “The Long-run Impacts of China’s Treaty Ports: Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade (清末开埠通商的长期影响：外商投资与进出口贸易).” The Journal of World Economy (《世界经济》), 44(11):27-48. CSSCI (in Chinese).
3. Luo, Chuliang & Wenjie Zhang*. “Living Arrangements and Happiness in Rural Chinia (农村居民居住安排与主观幸福感).” Studies in Labor Economics (《劳动经济研究》), 2025, 13(03): 71-105. CSSCI (in Chinese).
4. Luo, Chuliang & Wenjie Zhang, “Achieving Shared Prosperity by Improving Income Distribution (完善收入分配机制推进共同富裕)”. Zhejiang Social Sciences (《浙江社会科学》), 2025, (04): 19-30+156. CSSCI (in Chinese).
Working papers
1. Mao, Kaixian, Yaping Gong & Wenjie Zhang*. “Unmasking CEO Foreign Experience: Driving Firm Innovation or Bribery?” Organization Science (UTD24), Under Review.
2. Zhang, Chuanchuan, Haochen Zhang & Wenjie Zhang. “God Bless Me: The Emerging Propertied Classes and Religious Popularity in Post-Reform China”, Working Paper.
3. Zhang, Wenjie, & Xianqiang Zou*. “Fertility and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from China.” Working Paper.
4. Luo, Chuliang & Wenjie Zhang*. “The Long-Term Impact of Left-Behind Experience on Educational Attainment (早期留守经历对个体教育水平的长期影响).” Nankai Economic Studies (《南开经济研究》), CSSCI, Under Review. (in Chinese).
5. Yan, Di, Chuliang Luo & Wenjie Zhang*. “Health and Labor Supply Behavior of Urban Younger Elderly (健康与城镇低龄老年人劳动供给行为).” submitted. CSSCI (in Chinese).
6. Zhang, Wenjie & Liping Lu. “Did SOEs Deleveraged? An Analysis Based on Listed Companies’ Capital Structure.” Working Paper. (in Chinese).
Projects
Project Manager, Postgraduate Research Fund Project of Renmin University of China (No. 22XNH083),
Title: “Labor Mobility and Welfare of Urban Natives—Evidence from Hukou reform in China”, 2022-2024, finished.
2. Project Manager, Research and Innovation Fund Project (2018) for Postgraduates in Central University of Finance and Economics (No. 20181Y007)
Title: “The Research on the Long-run Impacts of China’s Treaty Ports on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade”, 2018-2019, finished.
3. Participant, Research on Promoting Common Prosperity through High-Quality, Sufficient Employment: Pathways and Policy Strategies, National Social Science Foundation Project (23VRC010), 2023-, work in progress.