Dr Rong Zhu

Position/s:Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Phone: +61 8 82013472
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Location: Social Sciences North (3109)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Rong joined NILS as a research fellow in September 2011. Prior to that, he was employed as a tutor and an economic research officer at the University of New South Wales.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of New South Wales, 2011

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Labour economics, applied econometrics, health economics

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Chambers, G.M., Hoang, V.P., Zhu, R., & Illingworth, P.J., 2012. A reduction in public funding for fertility treatment: an econometric analysis of access to treatment and savings to government. BMC Health Services Research, (forthcoming).

Magnani, E. & Zhu, R., 2012. Gender wage differentials among rural-urban migrants in China. REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, (forthcoming).

Zhu, R., 2012. The impact of major-job mismatch on college graduates' early career earnings: evidence from China. Education Economics, (forthcoming).

Zhu, R., 2011. Individual heterogeneity in returns to education in urban China during 1995-2002. Economics Letters, 113(1), 84-87.

Professional and community engagement

Referee for Applied Economics, Education Economics, Journal of Development Economics



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