Huang Zibin
Associate Professor
Personal Website
https://www.zibinhuang.com/
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, USA, 2021
Advisor: Ronni Pavan (Main), Lisa Kahn
M.A. in Economics, University of Rochester, USA, 2018
M.A. in Economics, Vanderbilt University, USA, 2015
B.S. in Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, China, 2013
Publication
1. Migration, Housing Constraint, and Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis of China, with Min Fang, Labour Economics, October 2022, Volume 78: 102200
2. Fertility and Delayed Migration: How Son Preference Protects Young Girls against Mother-Child Separation, with Xu Jiang and Ang Sun, Journal of Development Economics, January 2024, Volume 166: 103191
3. Biting the Hand That Teaches: Unraveling the Economic Impact of Banning Private Tutoring in China, with Yinan Liu, Mingming Ma and Leo Y. Yang, Journal of Comparative Economics, Accepted
4. 人口流动与县域高中发展：基于县级教育财政数据的实证研究，合作者：郭小琳，杨宇，张子哲，赵楠，世界经济，2025年第6期
Working Paper
1. School Restrictions, Migration and Peer Effects: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Children's Human Capital in China, with Junsen Zhang
2. Fertility, Child Gender, and Parental Migration Decision: Evidence from One Child Policy in China, with Lin Lin and Junsen Zhang (Revise and Resubmit at Quantitative Economics)
3. Place-based Land Policy and Spatial Misallocation: Theory and Evidence from China, with Min Fang, Libin Han, Ming Lu and Li Zhang (2nd Round Revise and Resubmit at International Economic Review)
4. Place-based Land Policy and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China's Eastern-Inland Regional Border, with Min Fang, Libin Han, Ming Lu and Li Zhang
5. Pandemic, Parental Migration, and Education Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, and Junsen Zhang
6. Defensive Innovation: US-China Trade War and College Major Choice, with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Lei Li, and Mengyuan Wang
7. Foreign Direct Investment and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China, with Jianpeng Deng, Qing Shi, and Xin Zhao (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
8. Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market, with Min Fang, Yushi Wang, and Alan Yu Yang
9. Growing without Divergence: The Impact of Innovation on Low- and High-skilled Migration
in China, with Suqin Ge, Naijia Guo, Junsen Zhang, and Li Zhang
Work in Progress
1. What Do Alibaba Data Tell Us about Price and Quality in China?
with Mark Bils, Min Fang and Tianchen Song (Granted by Alibaba Huoshui Research Plan)
2. Offshoring of Jobs in Multinational Companies: Evidence from Online Job Postings in the U.S. and China
with Qin Chen, Lisa Kahn, Lindsay Oldenski and Geunyong Park
Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards
1. Doctoral Fellowships, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2020
2. Roe L. Johns Student Travel Grants from Association for Education Finance and Policy, 2020
3. River Campus Library Data Grant, 2019
4. Best Fifth Year Paper in Empirical Economics, University of Rochester, 2019
5. Alibaba Huoshui Research Plan, Alibaba Group, 2019
6. Conibear Prize for Best Third Year Paper, University of Rochester, 2018
7. Summer Research Grant, University of Rochester Summer 2016, 2017
8. Graduate Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2015-2020
9. Most Outstanding Student of GPED, Vanderbilt University, 2015
10. James S. and Rosemary Worley Award for First Year Master Student, Vanderbilt University, 2014
Grants
National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72403152), 2024
Leading Young Talent Program of Shanghai, 2023
Shanghai Education Science Research Program (Grant No. C2023077), 2023