Dr Rong Zhu

Senior Lecturer Business Economics

College of Business, Government and Law

+61 8 82012544

rong.zhu@flinders.edu.au

Law & Commerce (3.67)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Rong Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at Flinders University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

Rong's research has appeared in Economic Journal, 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.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of New South Wales, 2012

Honours, awards and grants

Honours/Awards: Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University (2016); Young Scholar Best Paper Award, 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); Elsevier China Economic Review Best Paper Award (2023).

External Grants: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (2012); Australian Council of Learned Academies Secretariat (2013); National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (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); Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant (2023–2024); Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2023–2025); Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (2024).

Topic coordinator

BUSN2043 Managerial Economics

BUSN9115 Quantitative methods

BUSN2022 The Australian Economy

BUSN9233 Data Analysis for Decision Making

Supervisory interests

Education economics

Health economics

Labour economics

Professional engagement

Research Working Group Member, "National Strategy of Volunteering 2023–2033" (Establishment Phase), Volunteering Australia, 2024.

Research Working Group Member, "National Strategy of Volunteering 2023–2033" (Development Phase), Volunteering Australia, 2021–2022.

Editorial Board Member, Volunteering Research Papers Initiative, Volunteering Australia, 2022.

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, Economica, Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Education Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Health Economics, 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 Economics of the Household, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Medicine, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and World Bank Economic Review.