Associate professor
School of Statistics
Beijing Normal University
19 Xinjiekouwai Street
Beijing, China 100875
E-mail: xin.zhang614@bnu.edu.cn
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Peking University 2012-2017
Visiting Scholar, Yale University 2014-2015
B.A. in Economics with distinction, Nankai University 2008-2012
Work Experience
Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University, China 2020-Present
Assistant Professor, Beijing Normal University, China 2017-2020
Research Fields
Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Publications
In English
Lyuxiu Li and Xin Zhang* (corresponding author), 2024, “The causal impact of fetal exposure to PM2.5 on birth outcomes: Evidence from rural China”, Economics & Human Biology, 53: 101380.
Lyuxiu Li, Chao Ma, Wei Xu and Xin Zhang* (corresponding author), 2024, “The impact of ozone pollution on stroke hospitalization”, China Economic Journal, 17(1): 97-115.
Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang, 2024, “Temperature and Low-stakes Cognitive Performance”, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 11(1): 75-96.
Xin Zhang, Xun Zhang, Yuehua Liu, Xintong Zhao and Xi Chen, 2023, “The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China”, Journal of Population Economics, 36: 1269–1292.
Mengyao Li, Susana Ferreira, Travis A. Smith and Xin Zhang, 2021, “Air pollution and noncognitive traits among Chinese adolescents”, Health Economics, 30(2): 478-488.
Xi Chen, Chih Ming Tan, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang* (corresponding author), 2020, “The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes: The Case of China”, Journal of Population Economics, 33: 1263-1302.
Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xi Chen and Xun Zhang, 2020, “Associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China”, Science of The Total Environment, 713: 136472.
Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang, 2018, “The Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 115(37): 9193-9197.
Weina Liu, Hong Sun, Xin Zhang, Qi Chen, Yan Xu, Xi Chen and Zhen Ding, 2018, “Air Pollution Associated with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Chinese Adolescent Students: A Cross-Sectional Study,” Chemosphere, 209: 944-949.
Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen, 2017, “Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 85: 81-94.
Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen, 2017, “Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China,” Ecological Economics, 137: 29-36.
In Chinese
Xun Zhang, Jinghan Kou, Xin Zhang and Guangming Lv, “The Determinants of School District Housing Price Premiums from the Perspective of School Quality” Journal of Financial Research, 2021, 11: 97-116.
Xiaonan Qiao and Xin Zhang, “The Environmental Tax of the Host Country and Cross-border Transfer of Low-carbon Technologies,” China Economic Quarterly, 2012, 11(3): 853-872.
Book Chapters
In English
“The Effect of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Wellbeing in China”, with Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang, Chapter 10 in Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment, edited by David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch, Elgar Press, 2020.
In Chinese
“Air Quality and Subjective Well-being”, with Xiaobo Zhang, Chapter 8 in China Livelihood Development Report 2020-2021, edited by Yu Xie et al., Peking University Press, 2024.
“Income Distribution”, with Xiaobo Zhang, Chapter 2 in China Livelihood Development Report 2016, edited by Yu Xie et al., Peking University Press, 2016.
“Household Management and Self-employment”, with Xiaobo Zhang, Chapter 5 in China Livelihood Development Report 2014, edited by Yu Xie et al., Peking University Press, 2014.
Working Papers
“Gender Disparities in Parental Investment Responses to Fetal Air Pollution Exposure and Its Long-Term Impact on Cognitive Performance”, with Yixuan Wang, Xingyi Hu and Xi Chen.
“Extreme High Temperatures, Firm Dynamics and Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Productivity: The Case of Chinese Manufacturing”, with Xiangyu Shi.
“Air Pollution (Mitigation), Firms, and Spatial Development in China”, with Xiangyu Shi and Zhibo Tan.
“Blowin’ in the Wind: Smog and Suicidal Ideation among School-Age Children”, with Xi Chen, Hong Sun and Yuanjian Yang.
“The dilemma of pollution information disclosure: Evidence from a new data set”, with Jiaowei Gong, Xiangyu Shi and Chang Wang.
“How do extreme high temperatures reshape social dynamics in China: Evidence from a new data set”, with Jiaowei Gong, Xiangyu Shi and Chang Wang.
Research Grants
National Natural Science Foundation of China, 72003014, 2020
The Statistical Science Research Fund, 2019LY51, 2019
The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2018T110057, 2018
The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2017
The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2017M620653, 2017
Honors, Scholarships and Awards
2023 PKU Award Program for Young Scholars in Global Health and Development
2021 Outstanding advisor award of the 7th National Statistical Modeling Contest for College Students
2020 The 8th academy award for outstanding achievements in scientific research (social sciences), the third prize
2019 The 5th China education finance academic seminar youth outstanding paper, the second prize
2016 Best Abstract Award, The China Health Policy and Management Society
Referee Activities
China Economic Review (6 papers); China Economic Quarterly (10 papers); Nature Sustainability (2 papers); Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (4 papers); PLOS One (1 paper); Environmental Research (1 paper); Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2 papers); Environment and Development Economics (1 paper); Environmental and Resource Economics (2 papers); Energy Economics (1 paper); Transportation Research part D (1 paper); Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (1 paper); Nature Aging (1 paper); China Economic Quarterly International (1 paper); Demography (1 paper); Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (1 paper); SSM: Population Health (1 paper); Economic Journal (1 paper); Journal of Happiness Studies (1 paper); Journal of Population Economics (2 papers); Health Economics (1 paper); Ecological Economics (1 paper); Economic Inquiry (1 paper) ; Economics & Human Biology (1 paper)
Conference Presentations and Academic Activities
2023.12 The 6th Future Economists Forum, keynote speech, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing
2023.11 Sustainable Future: Workshop on Environmental Risks and Household Behavior, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu
2023.10 The 6th China Health Economics Forum, Nankai University, Tianjin
2023.01 Economics of Climate Change Forum, Online
2022.11 2022 Fudan University Doctoral Academic Forum, keynote speech, Online
2022.11 The 2nd Frontiers Forum on Environmental Economics, Beijing, China
2022.07 CCER Summer Institute, Beijing, China
2022.06 The 5th International Conference of China Development Studies, Online
2021.03 Economics of Climate Change Forum, Online
2021.03 IESR environmental economics workshop, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
2020.11 Longma Economics workshop, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
2019.12 Environmental Economics workshop, NSD, Peking University, Beijing, China
2019.04 The Energy Economics workshop, Beijing, China
2018.12 The Xiangzhang economic seminar, Chengdu, China
2018.07 NBER Summer Institute, Boston, USA (presented by Xi Chen)
2018.04 The Economics workshop, Remin University of China, Beijing, China
2018.01 ASSA Annual Meeting (Poster session), Philadelphia, USA
2017.10 Health Economics workshop, NSD, Peking University, Beijing, China
2017.10 China Economics Annual Conference, Yinchuan, China
2017.03 The Economics Workshop, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
2017.01 Mini-Conference on Equality among Children and Families: Evidence from China, Japan and the World, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
2017.01 ASSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA (presented by Chih Ming Tan)
2016.12 The Smog Workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2016.12 The Smog Workshop, Peking University, Beijing, China
2016.11 The Economics Workshop, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2016.06 The CES 2016 Annual Conference, Shenzhen, China
2015.08 The 11th World Congress of the Econometric Society, Montreal, Canada
2015.03 The CES 2015 North America Conference, Ann Arbor, USA
Updated April, 2024
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