Updated: 09/08/2024
Personal
- JHU email: h.q@jhu.edu
- Personal email: hanqecon@outlook.com
Position
Economist, Bates White Economic Consulting (2024/9-)
Short-term consultant, World Bank, 2020-21
Education
PhD in Economics, Johns Hopkins University (expected 2024)
BA in Economics, Minor in Mathematics, Peking University (2018)
Research Interest
Labor, Applied Micro, Applied Econometrics
Teaching Interest
- Undergraduate: microeconomics (all levels), game theory, market design, statistics and econometrics (all levels), causal inference, computational economics, labor economics, economics of poverty and inequality, economics of social welfare programs, etc.
- Graduate: topics in labor economics, structural approaches in applied microeconomics, etc.
Research Papers
- “Estimating Labor Market Monopsony Power from a Forward-looking Perspective” [PDF, Online Appendix] (Revised and resubmitted)
- “Human Capital Transferability and Employer Monopsony Power” [Job Market Paper, PDF]
- “Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries” with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang, and Forhad Shilpi [World Bank working paper]
- “Cohort Trends in Women’s Employment: The Role of Family Structure” with Robert Moffitt and Prerna Rakheja [work in progress]
- “Identification and Estimation of a Lifecycle Model on Labor Market Monopsony” [second dissertation chapter, work in progress]
Teaching
| Course | Semester | Role |
| Elements of Microeconomics [evaluation: 4.31/5] | 2021 Summer | Primary instructor |
| Econometrics (PhD) [evaluation: 5.00/5] | 2022 Spring, 2023 Spring | TA / section instructor |
| Econometrics (Undergraduate) | 2023 Fall (ongoing) | TA / section instructor |
| Elements of Microeconomics [evaluation: 4.28/5] | 2020 Spring | TA / section instructor |
| Elements of Macroeconomics [evaluation: 4.48/5] | 2020 Fall | TA / section instructor |
| Economics of Health | 2019 Fall | TA |
| Economics of Poverty and Inequality | 2021 Fall | TA |
| Investments and Portfolio Management | 2022 Fall | TA |
Presentations
9th Conference on Social and Economic Data, Berlin (2023), International Workshop on Establishment Panel Analyses, Nürnberg (2023), Johns Hopkins Applied Microeconomics Seminar (2022, 2023), Bates White, Jinan University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Liaoning University, Eastern Economic Association (2024), Midwest Economic Association (2024)
Awards
- Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University (2020)
- Provost Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (2022)
- Sylvia and Wilifried Prewo Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (AY 2022/2023)
- Merit student, Peking University (2015, 2016, 2017)
- Leo Koguan scholarship, Peking University (2015, 2016)
Services
- Graduate Advisory Council, JHU Economics Department (AY 2022/2023)
- Virtual session chair, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting (2021)
Skills
- Softwares: Stata, MATA, Matlab, Python, Latex, MS Office
- Languages: Chinese Mandarin (native), English (fluent)
References
- Prof. Robert Moffitt (JHU)
- Prof. Yingyao Hu (JHU)
- Prof. Yujung Hwang (JHU)