Anson Zhou
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong.
My research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Family Economics.
Before joining HKU in Fall 2023, I was a postdoc fellow in Long-Term Fiscal Policy at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (HCEO) since 2021.
CV You can find my CV here
Contact: zhouls [at] hku.hk
WORKING PAPERS
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of family policies in a heterogeneous-agent OLG economy featuring the quantity-quality trade-off and Social Security.
New! Asymmetric Fertility Elasticities, with Sam Engle and Chong Pang [This version: April 2024] (slides)
Is it more difficult for policymakers to raise fertility than to reduce it? If so, what could be the micro-foundations and what are the macro implications?
Teachers and the Evolution of Aggregate Inequality (under revision) [This version: January 2024]
With endogenous human capital formation, what are the dynamic impacts of teacher selection on inequality and intergenerational mobility?
PUBLICATIONS
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)
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Inequality, Human Capital, and Marketization of Home Production
DISCUSSIONS
"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