TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Focusing: Intermediate Econometrics (undergraduate, 48), Advanced Econometrics (PhD, 48), Frontiers in Applied Econometrics (PhD, 32)

Research Areas: Population, Labor, and Development Economics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor (with tenure), Wuhan University, December 2020 – present

Associate Professor (without tenure), Wuhan University, April 2019 – November 2020

Assistant Professor, Wuhan University, September 2017 – March 2019

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapter

Rufei Guo, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang. 2022. “The Child Quantity-quality Trade-off.” In Zimmerman, K. (Ed.). Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.

Journal Articles

Rufei Guo, Junsen Zhang, and Minghai Zhou, “The Demography of the Great Migration in China,” Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103235.

Rufei Guo, Junsen Zhang, and Ning Zhang, “How Does Birth Endowment Affect Individual Resilience to an Adolescent Adversity?,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 196, pp. 251-265.

Rufei Guo, Qian Wang, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang, “Housing Prices and Son Preference: Evidence from China’s Housing Reform,” Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2021.

Zhen Yu, Xiaoling Wu, Meng Li, and Rufei Guo, “Import Competition and the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China,” China Economic Review, 2021, 69, 101689.

Rufei Guo and Junsen Zhang, “The Effects of Children’s Gender Composition on Filial Piety and Old-Age Support,” Economic Journal, 2020, 130(623), pp. 2497-2525.

Rufei Guo, Lin Lin, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang, “The Cross-spousal Effect of Education on Health,” Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, 102493.

Rufei Guo, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang, “Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from China,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46(1), pp. 145-156.

Rufei Guo, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang, “Family Size, Birth Order, and Tests of the Quantity-Quality Model,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(2), pp. 219-224.

Sheng Wang and Rufei Guo, “Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-through and Monetary Policy in Open Economy,” Annals of Economics and Finance, 2016, 17(1), pp. 33-53.

Sheng Wang and Rufei Guo, “Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-through and Optimal Monetary Policy,” Economic Research Journal (in Chinese), 2012, S2, pp.131–143.

RESEARCH GRANTS

National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, "From Childbearing Motives to Fertility Rates: Price Theory, Structural Estimation, and Counterfactual Policy Analysis," Principal Investigator, 2024-2027.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund, "The Marital Returns to Education: Measurement and Analysis based on China's Birth-Control Policy," Principal Investigator, 2019-2021.