Oct. 2022 – Now               Associate Professor (with tenure), Institute for Economic and Social Research,

                                           Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Aug. 2016 –  Sep.2022      Assistant Professor, Institute for Economic and Social Research,

                                           Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Aug. 2014 – July 2016       Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lusk Center for Real Estate,

                                           Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

June 2011 – Dec. 2012      Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

  Ph.D., Economics, Syracuse University, May 2014

 Advisors: Stuart S. Rosenthal, Eleonora Patacchini, John M. Yinger

  M.A., Economics, Syracuse University, December 2011

  B.S., Economics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, June 2009

Journal Articles 

   Shimeng Liu, 2015. “Spillovers from Universities: Evidence from the Land-Grant Program,” Journal of Urban Economics 87, 25–41.

   Qianqian Cao and Shimeng Liu, 2016. “The Impact of State Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Laws on Higher-Risk Lending: Evidence from FHA and Subprime Mortgage Originations,” Journal of Real Estate Research 38:4,       505–538.

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   Shimeng Liu, 2017. “Agglomeration, Urban Wage Premiums, and College Majors,” Journal of Regional Science 57:4, 611–630.

   Shimeng Liu, Weizeng Sun and John Winters, 2019. “Up in STEM, Down in Business: Changing College Major Decisions with the Great Recession,” Contemporary Economic Policy 37:3, 476-491.

   Shimeng Liu and Xi Yang, 2020. “Property Tax Limits and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Bust,” Journal of Housing Economics 50, 101714.

   Shimeng Liu, and Xi Yang, 2021. “Human Capital Externalities or Consumption Spillovers? The Effect of High-skill Human Capital across Low-skill Labor Markets”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 87,103620

   Shimeng Liu, and Sisi Zhang, 2021. “Housing Wealth Changes and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Urban China,” China Economic Review 69, 101656

   Jing Li, Liyao Li, and Shimeng Liu, 2022. “Attenuation of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from  the Universe of Chinese Manufacturing Firms”, Journal of Urban Economics 130, 103458

   Yufei Guo, Shimeng Liu, and Weizeng Sun, “The Unintended Consequences of Special Economic Zones  on Crime”, Journal of Economic Geography, forthcoming

   Shimeng Liu, Hangtian Xu, Wenqin Zhang, and Wenzhuo Zheng, “A Car for Recognition: The  Heterogeneous Market Responses to the Emergence of Electric Vehicles”, Canadian Journal of  Economics, forthcoming

Journal Articles in Chinese (*Corresponding Author)

   Sisi Zhang and Shimeng Liu, 2017. “Housing Policies: What Have We Learnt from U.S. Experience?”, Journal of Translation from Foreign Literatures of Economics 4.《经济资料译丛》

   Weizeng Sun, Hanxiong Li* and Shimeng Liu, 2021. “Housing Price Growth and Education Choice: Wealth Effect or Employment Shock?”, Economic Science 3, 136-149.《经济科学》

   Shimeng Liu, Yifei Wang and Jingliang Lu*, 2021. “The Impact of Human Capital Agglomeration on Urban Wages and Employment Growth: Evidence from Major Cities in China”, Studies in Labor Economics 9:1, 27-49.《劳动经济研究》

   Shimeng Liu and Yifei Wang*, 2023. “How Does Human Capital Agglomeration Promote Employment Growth of Cities: Mechanism Decomposition from Perspectives of Productivity and Quality of Life”,  Economic           Science 5, 219-240.《经济科学》

   Weizeng Sun, Shimeng Liu*, Hanxiong Li and Lu Li, 2025. “City Commute, Family Time Allocation,  and Married Women’s Labor Force Participation”, Journal of Zhejiang University                         (Humanities and  Social Sciences) 55(05):145-160.《浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版)》

  Research Grants