Welcome! My name is Junchao and I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Japan. I graduated with a PhD in Economics from Yokohama National University in March 2017. My research interests include but not limited to labor economics and applied microeconometrics.
Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Yokohama National University, March 2017
Research Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
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Email: ztempest0218[at]gmail.com
Email: zhang[at]ism.ac.jp
1. “Identifying the Causal Effect of Marriage on Women's Labor Force Participation in the Presence of Chinese Superstition”, with S. Zhang, Economics Bulletin, 35(2), 986-997, April 2015.
2. “A Dilemma of Fertility and Female Labor Supply: Identification Using Taiwanese Twins”, China Economic Review, 43, 47-63, April 2017.
3. “School Starting Age and Academic Achievement: Evidence from China's Junior High Schools”, with S. Zhang and R. Zhong, China Economic Review, 44, 343-354, July 2017.
4. “The Impact of 9-year Compulsory Education: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Taiwan”, Applied Economics, 50(45), 4866-4878, May 2018.
5. “Estimates of the Returns to Schooling in Taiwan: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design”, Applied Economics Letters, 27(7), 533-538, March 2020.
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.)
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.
経済データ分析2（理科大、2019春）
経済学(ミクロ)（東洋大、2019春〜）
経済学(マクロ)（東洋大、2019秋〜）
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