Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at HKU Business School.
My research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Family Economics.
CV You can find my CV here
Contact: zhouls [at] hku.hk
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
Asymmetric Fertility Elasticities, with Sam Engle and Chong Pang [This version: February 2025] (slides)
The Autumn of Patriarchy [This version: February 2025] (slides)
The Fertility Race Between Technology and Social Norms, with Xican Xi [This version: March 2025] (slides)
Teachers and Inequality: A General Equilibrium Perspective [This version: April 2025]
Bounding Fertility Elasticities
Economics Letters, Volume 228, July 2023 (link to Working paper version)
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 129, 1-20, July 2022 (link to NBER Working Paper)
Staying at Home: Mobility Effects of COVID-19, with Sam Engle and John Stromme
Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 4, 86-102, April 2020 (link to County-level data, VoxEU article)
Inequality, Human Capital, and Marketization of Home Production
Information Frictions and Population Growth
"Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany" (PHBS, December 2023)
by Sebastian Findeisen, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, Tommaso Porzio, Wolfgang Dauth