Zejin Shi

I am an Assistant Professor at Wuhan University. I am a labor economist and macroeconomist studying life-cycle decisions, including education, marriage, labor supply, retirement, and fertility. I use structural models and counterfactual analysis for policy evaluation.

Fields: labor economics, macroeconomics, econometrics, computational economics.

Research

Working Papers

Understanding the Evolution of Labor and Marriage Markets from 1968 to 2018

Working paper

Delayed Retirement or More Births? Short-Run Relief and Long-Run Sustainability of China's Pension System

with Jun Nie and Pengwei Guo

Model-Aided Identification of Policy Effects Using RCTs

with Sebastian Galiani and Juan Pantano

Work in Progress

Connected Equilibrium Transitions with Sequential Shocks

Propagation through the Fundamental Surplus

with Lars Ljungqvist, Andrea Papetti, and Thomas J. Sargent

Publication

QuantEcon.py: A Community Based Python Library for Quantitative Economics

with Quentin Batista, et al. Journal of Open Source Software, 2023.