Yi Zhou (周羿) | Center for Social Research <br> Peking University

About Me

I am an associate professor (tenured) at the Center for Social Research and the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

Academic Positions

Guanghua School of Management & Center for Social Research, Peking University

Associate Professor (tenured), Aug. 2023–Present
Assistant Professor, Jul. 2017–Jul. 2023

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Demography, 2017
Advisors: Ronald Lee (chair), Alan Auerbach, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, and Charles I. Jones
M.A. in Demography, 2012
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Visiting Ph.D. Student, 2013–2014
Peking University
M.A. in Economics, National School of Development, 2011
B.A. in Management (Accounting Track), Guanghua School of Management, 2006

Research Interests

Economic Demography
Formal Demography
Family, Aging, and Health
Inequality and Social Change in China

Selected Publications

Huang, Wei, Yinghao Pan^*, and Yi Zhou^*. 2025. “One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss.” Review of Economics and Statistics 107 (5): 1341–55. Link.
Huang, Wei, Yiping Wang, Hantao Wu, and Yi Zhou^*. 2025. “The Motherhood Penalty and Low Fertility in China: A Pseudo-Event Study.” Journal of Population Economics 38: 28. Link.
Chen, Qin, and Yi Zhou^*. 2021. “Whose Trade Follows the Flag? Institutional Constraints and Economic Responses to Bilateral Relations.” Journal of Peace Research 58 (6): 1207–23. Link.
Barnett, William P.^*, Xiao Xiao, and Yi Zhou^*. 2021. “Competitive Exclusion versus Mimetic Isomorphism: An Identified Empirical Test.” Sociological Science 8: 211–29. Link.
Lee, Ronald, and Yi Zhou^*. 2017. “Does Fertility or Mortality Drive Contemporary Population Aging? The Revisionist View Revisited.” Population and Development Review 43 (2): 285–301. Link.
Huang, Wei, and Yi Zhou^*. 2013. “Effects of Education on Cognition at Older Ages: Evidence from China’s Great Famine.” Social Science & Medicine 98: 54–62. Link.
陈沁、夏昕鸣、周羿^*：《人口结构变迁与中国消费转型：从微观数据到宏观趋势》，《中国人口科学》，2026年第1期，第55—71页。Link.

English title: “Population Structure Change and China’s Consumption Transformation: From Micro Data to Macro Trends.”
黄炜、任昶宇、周羿^*：《退休制度、劳动供给与收入消费动态》，《经济研究》，2023年第1期，第141—157页。Link.

English title: “Retirement Institutions, Labor Supply, and the Dynamics of Income and Consumption.”

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Services

Journal of Aging & Social Policy
Associate Editor, 2026–
Center for Social Research, Peking University
Director of the Ph.D. Program, 2020–