BiographyJin Wang is an associate professor of Social Science and a faculty associate of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies both at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was educated at the Tsinghua University of China for her BA and MA in Economics before getting her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research, which mostly has a policy focus, is mainly in the areas of Development Economics, Public Economics and Chinese Economy. She worked on a variety of topics – place-based policies, government hierarchy and incentives, and the labor mobility barriers that are embedded in the hukou household registration system of China. Her work has appeared in a range of economics journals including Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Comparative Economics. She also serves as a referee for the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, and Journal of Comparative Economics.
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2017–present: Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2010–2017: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2013–present: Faculty Associate, Institute for Emerging Market studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ph.D., Economics, London School of Economics, 2010 (Thesis advisors: Oriana Bandiera and Timothy Besley) MRes., Economics with merit, London School of Economics, 2007 M.A., Economics with distinction, Tsinghua University, 2005 B.A., Economics with distinction, Tsinghua University, 2003 Development Economics, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Chinese Economy |