June 2020 Shuang Zhang Department of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder Email:
[email protected] Website: https://spot.colorado.edu/~shzh6533/index.html APPOINTMENTS 2020- Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University of Colorado Boulder 2013-2020 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder 2012-2013 SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University AFFILIATIONS 2020- Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University, 2012 M.A. in Economics, Fudan University, China, 2007 B.A. in Economics (with distinction), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, 2004 RESEARCH INTERESTS Environment and Energy, Health, Development, China PUBLICATIONS “Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China” (with Koichiro Ito). Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (5): 1627-1672. (Lead Article) “Land Reform and Sex Selection in China” (with Douglas Almond and Hongbin Li). Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (2): 560-585. “The Limits of Political Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability” (with Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Xiao Yu Wang). Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140: 223-241. “Quantifying Coal Power Plant Responses to Tighter SO2 Emissions Standards in China” (with Va- lerie Karplus and Douglas Almond). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115 (27): 7004-7009. “The Effects of High School Closure on Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China”. Economic Development and Culture Change, 2018, 67 (1): 171-191. 1 WORKING PAPERS Reforming Inefficient Energy Pricing: Evidence from China (with Koichiro Ito), NBER WP 26853, 2020. Ambiguous Pollution Response to COVID-19 in China (with Douglas Almond and Xinming Du), NBER WP 27086, 2020.