Curriculum Vitae (Sample)

Curriculum Vitae
Binzhen Wu
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 100084, P.R.China
Tel: 8610-62772371
Email: wubzh@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
Webpage: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/wubzh
Education：
Year 2006
Ph.D. in Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.
Year 2001
Master in Economics
Peking University, China
Year 1998
Bachelor in Nuclear Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Employment and Academic Affiliations:
2012.12-present, Associate Professor, Economics Department, Tsinghua University
2007.2-2012.12, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Tsinghua University
2010.1-present, Research Fellow, China Data Center, Tsinghua University
2008.5-present, Research Fellow, National Institute for Fiscal Studies, Tsinghua
University
Research Field： Public Economics, Development Economics, Applied Micro.
Teaching： Public Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics
Research Projects/Grants
National Science Fund, 2014.1-2018.12, project: “The Dynamic Relationship
between Income Inequality and Consumption Inequality”
National Science Fund, 2010.1-2012.12, project: “Financial aid, price control, and
quantity control, which is more efficient and fairer?”
Xiao Lin Shi Research Fund, 2009.1-2010.12, project: “The effects of competition
and regulations on the price and quantity of health care.”
Major participant: Scientific Programming Project by Ministry of Education, Project:
“Household after-school educational expenditure,” 2009.07-2012.12.31.
Publications:
Journal Papers:
“Linear regression with an estimated regressor: applications to aggregate indicators
of economic development,” (with Lingsheng Meng, Zhaoguo Zhan), accepted by
Empirical Economics.
“Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: Macro-level Evidence from China between 1997
and 2008,” (with Qiao Xue, Qiong Zhang), accepted by Journal of the Asia Pacific
Economy.
“Retirement Puzzle in China,” (with Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi), forthcoming in May
2015 issue of the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
“Railways and the Local Economy: Evidence from Qingzang Railway,” (with Yang
Wang) Economic Development and Cultural Change, April, 2015.
“Unequal Access to College in China: How Far Have Poor, Rural Students Been Left
Behind?” (with Hongbin Li, Prashant Loyalka,Scott Rozelle, Jieyu Xie), China
Quarterly, 2015.
“College Admissions Mechanism and Matching Quality: An Empirical Study in
China,”(with Xiaohan Zhong), Games and Economics Behavior, 84, pp. 196-215,
2014.
“Health
Insurance,
Trust, and
Precautionary Saving:
Evidence
from
New
Cooperative Medical Scheme,” (with Chong-En Bai), Journal of Comparative
Economics, 42(2), pp. 450-469, 2014.
“Poverty in China’s Colleges and the Targeting of Financial Aid,” (With Hongbin Li,
Lingsheng Meng, Xinzheng Shi), China Quarterly, 216, pp. 1-23, 2013.
“The End of Cheap Chinese Labor,” (with Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Yanyan Xiong), Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 26 (4), pp. 57-74, 2012.
“Does Having a Cadre-Parent Pay? Evidence from the First Job offers of Chinese
College Graduates,” (With Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Xinzheng Shi), Journal of
Development Economics, 99(2), pp. 513–520, 2012.
“Does Attending Elite colleges Pay in China,” (With Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng,
Xinzheng Shi), Journal of Comparative Economics, 40, pp.78-88, 2012.
“Income Inequality, Consumption, and Social-Status Seeking,” (with Ye Jin, Hongbin
Li) Journal of Comparative Economics, 39, pp.191-204, 2011.This paper won the
4th McKinsey China Economics Award.
Book Chapters:
“Social Insurance and Household Consumption in China,” (With Chong-En Bai), in
Masahiko Aoki (Eds.) "Approaches to the Evolving World Economy: The proceedings
of the 16-th World Congress of the International Economic Association."
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.
“Saving Rates of Urban Households in China,” (with Agar Brugiavini, Guglielmo
Weber), in Gomel, G.; Marconi, D.; Musu, I.; Quintieri, B. (Eds.) “The Chinese
Economy: Recent Trends and Policy Issues,”Springer, 2013.
Working Papers:
“The Retirement Consumption Puzzle Revisited: Evidence from the Mandatory
Retirement Policy in China,” (with Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi).
“Labor Market Experience and Returns to Education in Rapidly Developing
Economies”(with Hongbin Li, James Liang).
“Scientific Personnel Allocation and Firm Innovation: Evidence from China’s
Expansion of Higher Education” (with Zhao Rong).
“Matching Mechanisms, Matching Quality, and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from
China”(with Mingming Ma, Xiaohan Zhong), presented at “Public Finance Issues in
China” 2012; China Economics Summer Institute, 2013.
“Tax Reduction and Consumption and Investment Behavior in Rural Area,” (with
Xiang Ma) presented at the annual conference of “Public Finance Issues in
China,”2011； Chinese Economists Society annual conference 2010.
“Payroll Tax and Consumption,” (With Chong-En Bai), presented at NBER-CCER
annual conference 2011, Asian meeting of the econometric society 2011, and East
Asia seminar on economics 2011.
“House Prices and Household Saving Rate: Evidence from China,” (With Jieyu Xie).
“Missing Women in Science and Engineering” (With Hongbin Li, Sai Luo)
“Education Inequality: Evidence from College Applicants and Admissions,”(with
Hongbin Li, Xinzheng Shi) presented at International Labor Conference, 2010; 2011
International Symposium on the Economics of Education.
“College Enrollment Expansion and Education Inequality” (with Wenlan Luo)
presented at the annual conference of “Public Finance Issues in China”2011.
“Long-term Effect of In Utero Exposure to Land Reform on Academic Performance in
China” (with Douglas Almond, Hongbin Li, Shuang Zhang), presented at “Public
Finance Issues in China” 2012.
“Individual Income Tax and Consumption” (with Xin Wang) presented at the annual
conference of “Public Finance Issues in China” 2011.
“Who Are China's Future Leaders? Evidence from a College Student Survey,” (with
Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Xinzheng Shi) presented at China Economics Summer
Institute, 2011.
“Health Insurance and Subjective Health Status”(With Carine Milcent), presented at
International Economic Association (IEA) 16th world congress 2011; Tsinghua
International Conference in Econometrics 2011.
“Financial Aid Policies and Household Saving Behavior – the evidence from the 1992
Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act,”(With Hau Chyi).
“Why Do Families Borrow So Much for Higher Education?,” presented at Society of
Labor Economists (SOLE) fourteen Annual Conference,2009; and American
Education Finance Association (AEFA)’s 34th Annual Conference.
“The Effects of the Health Insurance Availability on the Demand-side: An Impact
Evaluation of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme,” presented at The 11th
International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, 11.16, 2008.