Yaohui Zhao is professor of economics at the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University. She received BA and MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1995. Her research focuses on labor market issues in China, including determinants and consequences of rural to urban labor migration, wage differentials, and returns to education. Recently she has begun to conduct research in the economics of health and aging, such as the SES gradients of health, underdiagnosis of chronic diseases among the elderly, labor supply and living arrangements of the elderly, etc. Since 2007 she has been principal investigator of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHALRS), a nationally representative sample of Chinese residents 45 and older.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2010.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14725
forthcoming in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8394
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8230
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 53-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7536
published as 'Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 46-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7535
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 50 - 59,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6489
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(2), 86-121.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5318
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1), 127-156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5152
published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010
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