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Prof. ZHOU Jin (周瑾教授)

PhD - Economics (University of Western Ontario)

Associate Professor

Contact Information

E-mail:
Address:	9-223, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building City University of Hong Kong
Phone:	+852 34426356
jzhou269@cityu.edu.hk
Personal Web:
https://sites.google.com/site/jinzhouecon/
CV:

Jin Zhou's primary fields are Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and Development Economics. She currently focuses on research on the one of the largest early childhood interventions in the world: the China REACH project, especially on understanding the child skill development process, and designing and studying interventions aimed at accelerating the child learning process. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario and worked as postdotoral scholar at the University of Chicago.

Research Grant

PI: "New Era of Quantifying Dynamic Complementarity", GRF - Research Grants Council , (2027-2030) , Jin Zhou, Xiaohong Chen, and Kang Zhou
PI: "Understanding Early Childhood Learning through the Urban Early Childhood Intervention in China", GRF - Research Grants Council , (2026-2029) , Jin Zhou, James Heckman
PI: " Measuring Skills and Understanding the Mechanism for Boosting Skill Development through Early Childhood Intervention", ECS - Research Grants Council , (2025-2027) , Jin Zhou

Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews
Heckman, James; Tian, Haihan; Zhang, Zijian; Zhou, Jin / Dynamic Complementarity. August 2026; In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. HECKMAN, JAMES; TIAN, HAIHAN; ZHANG, ZIJIAN; ZHOU, Jin / Measuring the Growth of Skills. May 2026; In: AEA Papers and Proceedings . Vol. 116, pp. 278–283 Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin / A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning. January 2026; In: Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 49-85 Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai / The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills. January 2026; In: Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 119-148 Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale. July 2024; In: Journal of Econometrics. Vol. 243, No. 1-2 Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai; Chang, Susan M.; Grantham-McGregor, Sally / Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program. May 2023; In: Pediatrics. Vol. 151, No. Supplement 2 Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Wang, Fuyao; Liu, Bei / Early childhood learning patterns for a home visiting program in rural China. March 2023; In: Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 584-604 Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Identifying agent's information sets: An application to a lifecycle model of schooling, consumption and labor supply. April 2017; In: Review of Economic Dynamics. Vol. 25, pp. 58-92

Journal Publications and Reviews

Heckman, James; Tian, Haihan; Zhang, Zijian; Zhou, Jin / Dynamic Complementarity. August 2026; In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
HECKMAN, JAMES; TIAN, HAIHAN; ZHANG, ZIJIAN; ZHOU, Jin / Measuring the Growth of Skills. May 2026; In: AEA Papers and Proceedings . Vol. 116, pp. 278–283
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin / A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning. January 2026; In: Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 49-85
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai / The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills. January 2026; In: Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 119-148
Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale. July 2024; In: Journal of Econometrics. Vol. 243, No. 1-2
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai; Chang, Susan M.; Grantham-McGregor, Sally / Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program. May 2023; In: Pediatrics. Vol. 151, No. Supplement 2
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James; Wang, Fuyao; Liu, Bei / Early childhood learning patterns for a home visiting program in rural China. March 2023; In: Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 584-604
Navarro, Salvador; Zhou, Jin / Identifying agent's information sets: An application to a lifecycle model of schooling, consumption and labor supply. April 2017; In: Review of Economic Dynamics. Vol. 25, pp. 58-92

Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works
Zhou, Jin; Baulos, Alison; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei / The economics of investing in early childhood: Importance of understanding the science of scaling. May 2021; The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It. pp. 76-97

Journal Article - Reviewing
Heckman, James; ZHOU, Jin / Nonparametric Tests of Dynamic Complementarity. 2023; revised and resubmitted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.