Prof. ZHOU Jin (周瑾)

Visiting address
LAU-9-223
Phone: +852 34426356

Author IDs

Willing to talk to media: yes

Biography

Publications:

1. "A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning," Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy (with James Heckman)

2. ``The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills." ZHOU, Jin; Heckman, James; Lu, Mai; Liu, Bei, June 2024; In: Journal of Labor Economics.

3. ``Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale" Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin, March 2024; In: Journal of Econometrics

4. ``Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program" Zhou, J., Heckman, J. J., Liu, B., Lu, M., Chang, S. M. & Grantham-McGregor, S., 1 May 2023, In: Pediatrics. 151, e2023060221I.

5. ``Early childhood learning patterns for a home visiting program in rural China" Zhou, J., Heckman, J., Wang, F. & Liu, B., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Community Psychology. 51, 2, p. 584-604

6. ``The economics of investing in early childhood: Importance of understanding the science of scaling" Zhou, J., Baulos, A., Heckman, J. J. & Liu, B., 27 May 2021, The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It. Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 76-97

7. ``Identifying agent's information sets: An application to a lifecycle model of schooling, consumption and labor supply" Navarro, S. & Zhou, J., 1 Apr 2017, In: Review of Economic Dynamics. 25, p. 58-92

 

Working papers:

  1. "Measuring Knowledge and Learning," under review (with James Heckman), NBER/IZA/BFI Working Paper 

  2. "Social Networks as Investment: Rural-Urban Migration in China," under revision 

  3. "Nonparametric Tests of Dynamic Complementarity," Revised and resubmitted American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with James Heckman)