Junchao Zhang

Welcome! My name is Junchao and I am an Associate Professor at Niigata University in Japan. My research interests include but not limited to labor economics and applied microeconometrics.

Junchao Zhang

Associate Professor, Niigata University

Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Yokohama National University, March 2017

Research Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

Referee Services: see my Web of Science

Email: zhang[at]econ.niigata-u.ac.jp

Working Papers

•Under Review

1. “The Effect of Transportation Benefits on Health and Consumption Among the Elderly: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Urban China”, with T. Yin and Z. Yin, RIETI Discussion Paper 18-E-037.

2. “Estimating Average Treatment Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Japan”, available upon request.

3. “Revisiting the Delimma of Fertility and Female Labor Supply: New Evidence and Explanations from Japan”, available upon request
(This work is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K13710.)

•Selected Work in Progress

1. “Immigration and Technology Progress: Evidence from the 1949 Retreat of Kuomintang”, available upon request.

2. “Does Education Matter for Fertility and Abortion? Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Law”, available upon request.

3. “Education and Wage Inequality in Taiwan, 1979-2015”, available upon request.

Lectures

労働経済学(横国 2017春)

コンピュータ・リテラシー(横国 2017春)

経済データ分析2(理科大 2019春)

経済学(ミクロ)(東洋大 2019春〜2021秋)

経済学(マクロ)(東洋大 2019春〜2021秋)

労働経済学I(新潟大 2021春〜)

労働経済学II(新潟大 2021秋〜)

Photography

2020.11@Kerama 2020.11@Ishigaki 2021.07@Sado 2022.05@Sado 2022.05@Sado 2022.06@Small Worlds 2023.03@Sado 2023.03@Sado 2023.07@Aomori

Contact

Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments and questions regarding my research papers.

zhang[at]econ.niigata-u.ac.jp