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Haizheng Li

Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Office: Room 218, Old CE Building

Phone: 404.894.3542

Fax: 404.894.1890

haizheng.li@econ.gatech.edu

Dr. Haizheng Li received his PhD in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the School of Economics in 1997, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Professor in 2010. A specialist in applied econometrics, labor economics, industry studies and Chinese economy, he has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He has received two research grants from Sloan Foundation Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, and a number of grants from China. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank, a Special Research Fellow of Shanghai Development and Reform Commission in China, and is a member of Advisory Board of China Economic Review, and President of the Chinese Economists Society (2006-07). At Georgia Tech, he served as Academic Senate and General Faculty Assembly Representative, Co-director of Georgia Tech-Shanghai Summer Program (2005-07), and Director of Information Technology in the School of Economics. His teaching includes econometrics, economic forecasting, labor economics, and microeconomics.

Selected Publications

"“Human Capital in China, 1985-2008” (with Barbara M. Fraumeni, Yunling Liang, Zhiqiang Liu and Xiaojun Wang)"

Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming 2012
"“Economic Transition, Higher Education and Worker Productivity in China” (with Belton Fleisher, Yifan Hu, and Seonghoon Kim)"

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 94, No.1, pp 86-94, 2011.
"Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China"

(with Belton Fleisher and Min Qiang Zhao)

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2010.
"High Education in China--Complement or Competition to US Universities"

(edited by Charles T. Clotfelter)

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) invited book chapter, American Universities in Global Competition, University of Chicago Press, Chapter 8, pp. 269-304, 2010
"“Labor Supply in Urban China” (with Jeffrey Zax)"

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 795-817, 2003
"“Economic Transition and Returns to Education in China”"

Economics of Education Review, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 317-328, 2003.

Selected Working Papers

"Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment"

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"Symmetrically Censored GMM Estimation for Tobit Models with Endogenous Regressors"

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