Dr Rong Zhu
Senior Lecturer Business Economics
College of Business, Government and Law
Dr Rong Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Flinders University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA) and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).
Rong's research areas include labour economics, education economics, and health economics. His research has appeared in Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Economics of Education Review, Health Economics, Labour Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Oxford Economic Papers, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and Social Science & Medicine.
Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/rongzhu.
PhD in Economics, University of New South Wales, 2012
- Honours/Awards: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University (2016); Young Scholar Best Paper Prize, 5th China Education Finance Symposium (2019); College Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University (2021); Honourable Mention, Student Led Teaching Award, Flinders University Student Association (2021); South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2022).
- External Grants: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (2012); Australian Council of Learned Academies Secretariat (2013); National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University (2014); NSW Department of Education and Training (2015); Fair Work Commission (2015); Commonwealth Grants Commission (2016); Commonwealth Bank of Australia (2018); Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2019–2021); Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2023–2025).
Member, National Strategy of Volunteering Research Working Group, Volunteering Australia.
Editorial Board Member, Volunteering Research Papers Initiative, Volunteering Australia.
Assessor, Australian Research Council Discovery Funding Scheme.
Reviewer for: Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Australian Economic Papers, Australian Economic Review, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Australasian Journal on Ageing, China Economic Review, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Papers, Economic Record, Economic Systems, Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Education Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Forum for Social Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of International Development, Journal of Population Ageing, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Oxford Economic Papers, Plos One, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Medicine, Technological Forecasting & Social Change.
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