Anna Zhu

Research Fellow

RMIT University

anna.zhu@rmit.edu.au

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Research Interests

Anna Zhu is a lecturere of economics at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Anna’s research uses econometric techniques combined with national survey and administrative datasets to investigate issues on child development, the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage, relationship dynamics and employment. Her recent work uses machine learning tools to provide predictions and causal estimations.

She has conducted some of this research under partnerships with government agencies and as a research fellow of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence’s Life Course Centre.

Anna joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2016 and became an IZA Research Fellow in November 2021.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16285

Welfare Reform and Migrant's Long-Term Labor Market Integration

Johannes S. Kunz, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14665

Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing

Silvia Mendolia, Agne Suziedelyte, Anna Zhu

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14377

Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients

Dario Sansone, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12102

The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants

Abraham Chigavazira, Hayley Fisher, Tim Robinson, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11070

Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10614

Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David C. Ribar, Anna Zhu

published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10253

Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes

Chris Ryan, Anna Zhu

published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yerokhin (eds.), Critial Perspectives on Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10243

The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering

Hayley Fisher, Anna Zhu

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (623), 2833 - 2866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9686

Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1315 - 1352