ZHU Mengbing

Education

• 2014.09-2017.07 Ph.D. in Labor Economics, Beijing Normal University
• 2014.09-2017.07 Ph.D. in Labor Economics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
• 2011.09-2014.07 Master in Labor Economics, Beijing Normal University
• 2007.09-2011.07 Bachelor in Economics, Beijing Normal University

Work Experience

• 2018-present Assistant Professor, Beijing Normal University, BeijingChina
• 2017-2018, post-doctor Stanford University

Research Interests

• Labor Economics
• Development Economics
• Economics of Education

Courses Taught

• Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate)
• Labor Economics (Graduate)

Publications

Main Journal Articles

·“Changes in income inequality in China during the last 40 years”[J].with Shi Li, Management World ,2018,34(12). (In Chinese)

·“An analysis of the Targeting Effect of the Rural Subsistence Allowance Policy” [J], with Shi Li, Social Science in China , 2017(9). (In Chinese)

·“Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Dibao) Program in China”, with Nanak Kakwani, Shi Li, and Xiaobing Wang, China Economic Review , 2018.

·“Assortative Mating and Income Inequality: A decade Review of Research” [J], Economic Perspectives ,2017(6). (In Chinese)

·“Evolution of Consumption Inequality in Rural China》[J], Journal of Beijing Technology and Business University ,2018(1). (In Chinese)

·“Redistributive effects of social security system in China” [J], with Shi Li and Peng Zhan, Social Security Review) ,2017. (In Chinese)

·“Poverty Alleviation should focus on Precision”, Chinese Social Science Today , 2017(10). (In Chinese)

·“Assortative Marriage: An integrative review”, Teahouse for Economists, 2017(78). (In Chinese)

Books

·Book Chapter “Wealth Effects on Consumption in China, 2002-2013”, in The Research on Income Distribution in China, Oxford University Press, 2018.

·Book Chapter “The Gender Gap and Gender Discrimination of Migrant Workers” in The Economic Status of Rural and Urban Migrant Workers, The Chinese Workers' Publishing Press, 2016. (in Chinese)

·Book Chapter “Regional Income Inequality in China” in The Empirical Analysis on Income Inequality in China, Social Science Academic Press, 2014. (in Chinese)

·Book Chapter “Regional Wage Inequality in China” in The Empirical Analysis on Income Inequality in China, Social Science Academic Press, 2014. (in Chinese)

Conference Papers/Presentations

Migration and Reshaping of Consumption Patterns, Nottingham, England, September 2017.

The 8th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Beijing, China, December 2016.

The 65th Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Nancy, France, June 2016.

Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée (JMA), Besançon, France, May 2016.

The Frontier of Economic Theory and the Development Economics, Nanjing, China, November 2016.

< Targeting Performance of China’s Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee >

The 4th China Forum on Social Science, Hangzhou, China, September 2016.

< Wealth effects on consumption in China, 2002-2013>

7th Annual SEBA-GATE Workshop, Beijing, China, August 2016.

Working Papers

·“Assortative mating and income inequality in China:1988-2013”, with Quheng Deng, Under review of Economic Research Journal . (In Chinese)

·“Why Are Some People Poor: Relative Deprivation and Social Groups in China”, with Nanak Kakwani, Xiaobing Wang, and Shi Li.

·“Social Opportunity Function and Equity in Opportunity in China”, with Nanak Kakwani, Xiaobing Wang, and Shi Li.