Title: Aging in a Dual Economy: Urban Aging, MassiveMigration, and Agricultural Development

Speaker: Junsen Zhang, Zhejiang University

Time: 2025/11/30 11:30-12:30

Venue: 2F, International Conference Hall, Zeng Xianzi Science Museum

About the speaker:

Junsen Zhang is a globally renowned Chinese economist whose research focuses on labor economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is currently a Senior Professor of Humanities at the School of Economics, Zhejiang University, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of the 17th (2016) Sun Yefang Economic Science Award and the 2020 Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award.

His research focuses on labor economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is dedicated to studying the economics of social issues, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers of payments, gender discrimination, and elderly care. He also specializes in macroeconomic issues related to families, such as population aging, social security, and economic growth.

He has published over 130 papers in internationally renowned journals, including 5 in the Journal of Political Economy, 1 in the Review of Economic Studies, and others in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of International Economics, the International Economic Review, and the Economic Journal.