Jin Zhou
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong
Jin Zhou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance at the City University of Hong Kong.
Jin’s research mainly focuses on understanding the education impact on individuals’ lifecycle outcomes. Recently there are two main aspects: skill development during the early childhood period and education decisions with location choices. For the early childhood skill development, she recently works, especially on the research about China REACH project, on how to identify the child latent skills, understand the child skill development process, and design and study the intervention to accelerate the child learning process. For the second aspect: education decisions with location choices, which cover how the work location decisions could affect individuals’ education choices and how the parents’ work location decisions influence the children's skill development.
Jin is a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Western Ontario in 2016.
Recent work by Jin Zhou
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Mismeasuring learning: Beware of psychometric test scores
High-frequency data from a large early childhood intervention in China indicates that skills develop through the emergence of qualitatively new abilities and stochastic fluctuations, rather than as higher levels of a fixed trait, challenging the prac...
Published 17.02.26
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Measuring the impact of a home visiting programme on child skills
A home visiting programme substantially improves the language, cognitive, fine motor and socioemotional skills of left-behind children in rural China
Published 28.09.20