Haizheng Li
Associate Professor
IT Director, School of Economics
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
- Office: Room 206, Habersham Building
- Phone: 404.894.3542
- haizheng.li@econ.gatech.edu
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Dr. Haizheng Li is Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1997. His research focuses on applied econometrics, primarily in the areas of labor economics, industry studies, and the Chinese economy. In the labor area, his research interests include labor market issues such as labor supply, migration, wage determination and human capital, focusing on the evolving labor markets in China. In industry studies, he has mainly worked on the pulp and paper industry. He has received two large research grants from the Sloan Foundation Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, and one large grant from the 985-Project of the Ministry of Education of China via the Hunan University. He has served as the President of the Chinese Economists Society (2006-07), a member of Advisory Board of China Economic Review, a consultant for the World Bank, a Special Research Fellow of the Shanghai Development & Reform Commission in China, a Special Term Professor/Chief-985 Economist at Hunan University in China, and an expert witness in court in Atlanta, USA. At Georgia Tech, he is Director of Information Technology in the School of Economics, and served as Co-Director of the Georgia Tech-Shanghai Summer Program (2004-07). He has supported a number of graduate students through his research grants. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate econometrics, economic forecasting, labor economics, and microeconomics.
Recent Publications
- “Political Freedom, Economic Freedom and Income Convergence: Do Stages of Economic Development Matter?” (with Zhenhui Xu), Public Choice, accepted, October, 2007.
- “Industry Consolidation and Price in the U.S. Linerboard Industry,” (with Jifeng Luo), Journal of Forest Economics, forthcoming (2008).
- “Economic Convergence in Seven Asian Countries” (with Zhenhui Xu), Review of Development Economics, 11 (3), pp. 531-549, August, 2007.
- Market Development and Inequality in China: Prospects for the 21 Century (with Belton Fleisher and Shunfeng Song), ISBN 978 1 84542 851 8, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, August, 2007. Buy the Book
Selected Working Papers
- “Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment”
- “Inventory, Price, and Output in the Linerboard Industry”
- “Economic Transition, Higher Education and Worker Productivity in China*”
- “Industry Consolidation and Price-Cost Margins — Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry”
- “Regional Disparity of Industrial Development and Productivity in China”