Research

Working Papers

Raymo, James, Boyan Zheng, Qiang Ren and Yi Zhou. “The Effect of School Closures during the Pandemic on Parental Labor Supply in China.” Accepted, Journal of Labor Economics.
Liu, Wen, James Raymo, and Yi Zhou. “Change in Marital Satisfaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: The Roles of Financial Stress and Housework Burden.” Accepted, Demographic Research.
Zhang, Kexin, Yuxin Tang, and Yi Zhou. “Unequal Summers: Gendered Family Processes and Learning Loss in China.” Revised and resubmitted, Sociology of Education.
Kang, Le, Di Wang, Xu Wei, Xiaoyang Ye, and Yi Zhou. “The Option Value of Later Specialization: Evidence from the Meta Major Reform in China’s College Education.” Revised and resubmitted, Economic Development and Cultural Change. Link
Gao, Tingming, Xiao Xiao, and Yi Zhou. “People Dislike Inflation Only If They Understand It: How Financial Literacy Shapes Money Illusion.” Revised and resubmitted, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
Lei, Zihui, Xiao Xiao, and Yi Zhou.”Can Education Travel Upward? Adult Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Financial Market Participation.” Under review. Link
Yuan, Luoqi, Wei Huang, Xiaoyin Ma, Xiao Xiao, and Yi Zhou. “Financial Literacy and Financial Policy Preferences: Evidence from Small Business Entrepreneurs in China.” Under review.
Gao, Ming, Qingping Zhang, and Yi Zhou. “How Lives Change When Factories Arrive.” Under review.
Gao, Ming, Qingping Zhang, and Yi Zhou. “Factory Relocations, Social Ties, and Innovation.” Under review.
Cai, Weicheng, Lang Luo, and Yi Zhou. “When States Act, Do Foreign Publics Respond? A Natural Experiment from U.S.-China Relations.” Under review.
Gao, Tingming, Yunnan Guo, Le Kang, and Yi Zhou. “Engineering Gender Segregation in China: Interactions Between Individual, Family, and Cultural Mechanisms.” Under review.
Jiang, Xu, Yizhou Liu, Xu Wei, Xiao Xiao, and Yi Zhou. “Ambiguity, Price Informativeness, and Disclosure Quality.”
Ding, Xiangyuan, Wei Huang, Yuqi Ta, and Yi Zhou. “Beyond Money: Time Costs as a Determinant of Healthcare Utilization.”
Yang, Ning, Xiang Liu, Kexin Zhang, Weicheng Cai, Yiqing Xing, and Yi Zhou. “A More Integrated but More Fragile World: The Network Structure of World Politics.”
Tian, Wei, Yang Yao, Miaojie Yu, and Yi Zhou. “Dependency Ratio and International Trade.” Link

Grants

Principal Investigator, “Quantitative Social Science Talent Development Program (Peking University–Princeton University),” Innovative International Cooperation Program for Talent Development, China Scholarship Council, 2026–.
Chinese title: 量化社会科学人才培养计划（北京大学-普林斯顿大学）
Principal Investigator, “Population Structure Change and China’s Consumption Transformation: Micro Mechanisms, Industrial Responses, and Policy Optimization,” General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2025–, RMB 480,000.
Chinese title: 人口结构变迁与中国消费转型：微观机制、产业响应与政策优化
Subproject Principal Investigator, “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Structural Changes in the Labor Market and Policy Responses,” Major Project, National Social Science Fund of China, 2025–.
Chinese title: 人工智能对劳动力市场结构性变迁的影响趋势及政策应对研究
Subproject Principal Investigator, “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technological Change on China’s Economic and Social Development and Policy Responses,” Major Project, National Social Science Fund of China, 2024–.
Chinese title: 人工智能技术变革对我国经济社会发展的影响及对策研究
Principal Investigator, “The Feedback Effects of Children’s Human Capital on Parental Health,” Youth Project (19YJC840064), Ministry of Education of China, 2019–2024, RMB 80,000.
Chinese title: 子女人力资本对于父母健康的反馈效应研究
Principal Investigator, “Consumption in an Aging Society,” Policy Research Project, Development Research Center of the State Council, 2025, RMB 150,000.
Chinese title: 老龄化后的消费
Principal Investigator, “Institutional Innovation for Interdisciplinarity: Quantitative Social Science Development and Cross-Disciplinary Platform Building in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Peking University Special Project for Discipline Development, 2025–, RMB 50,000.
Chinese title: 交叉学科机制体制突破——人工智能时代的量化社会科学发展与跨学科平台建设
Principal Investigator, “Cognitive Health Inequality in the Digital Society: Digital Intervention, Social Networks, and AI Empowerment,” Peking University “Digital and Humanities” Special Project, 2025–, RMB 70,000.
Chinese title: 数字社会中的认知健康不平等：数字介入、社会网络与AI赋能
Principal Investigator, “Population Aging, Life-Cycle Consumption, and the Silver Economy,” Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Thought Leadership Project IV, 2024–, RMB 150,000.
Chinese title: 人口老龄化、生命周期消费和银发经济
Principal Investigator, “Population Aging and China’s Long-Term Growth: A Skill-Based Perspective,” Peking University Liberal Arts Innovation Project, 2023–2025, RMB 100,000.
Chinese title: 人口老龄化与中国长期增长：技能要素的视角
Principal Investigator, “Population Aging and China’s Long-Term Economic Growth,” Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Thought Leadership Project, 2018–2023, RMB 100,000.
Chinese title: 人口老龄化与中国长期经济增长
Co-Investigator, “Marriage and Fertility Intentions among Young People in China’s Megacities under Population Aging,” Beijing Social Science Fund Project, 2024–.
Chinese title: 老龄化背景下我国超大城市青年群体婚育意愿研究
Co-Investigator, “Human Capital Externalities and High-Quality Economic Growth: Phenomena, Mechanisms, and Impacts,” General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023–.
Chinese title: 人力资本外部性与经济高质量增长：现象、机制和影响
Co-Investigator, “The English Translation of Reinventing the Corporation: Financial Markets and the Modern Transformation of Chinese Enterprises,” Chinese Academic Translation Project (22WSHB007), National Social Science Fund of China, 2023.
Chinese title: 《公司的再造：金融市场与中国企业的现代转型》（英文版）
Co-Investigator, “Research on Service Management and Support for Retired Military Cadres,” Research Project, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Veterans Affairs, 2023.
Chinese title: 军休服务管理保障研究