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Journal of Population Economics

International Research on the Economics of Population, Household, and Human Resources

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Journal of Population Economics - About the Editors

Editor-in-chief

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Global Labor Organization (GLO), UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlandsklaus.f.zimmermann@gmail.com

President, Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (em.); Honorary Neuer InhaltProfessor, Maastricht University, Free University of Berlin and Renmin University of China, Beijing;Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, and Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences. Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA).Previous positions: Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Past-President, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). University affiliations: Macquarie University, University of Melbourne, Princeton University, Harvard University, Munich University, Dartmouth College, Kyoto University, University of Pennsylvania and CORE/Louvain-la-Neuve.Honors: Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank. Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017; Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, Australia; EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society.
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Managing Editor

Madeline Zavodny

Madeline Zavodny is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Florida. Her research concentrates on economic issues related to immigration and theNeuer Inhalt economic and demographic effects of immigration policies. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Migration Review and has served as co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal and a board member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in economics from Claremont McKenna College.
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Editors

Xi Chen

Xi Chen is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Yale University, and an Editor of the Journal New Content Itemof Population Economics. His research focuses on health economics and economics of aging, such as issues surrounding life course health, pension, retirement, and health policy evaluations. He is a research fellow at the IZA and GLO, and has consulted for the United Nations and the World Bank. His work has been funded through large research grants, recognized with numerous awards, published in major economics, science, public health journals, and widely covered in global media. He holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Cornell University.
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Shuaizhang Feng

Shuaizhang Feng is a Professor of Economics, the Dean of the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the Jinan University, and EditNeuer Inhaltor of the Journal of Population Economics. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. Previously, he was a Professor at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research interest is focused on labor economics and the Chinese economy, including issues related to human capital, income inequality, migration and the labor market. He has frequently published in journals like the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Population Economics.
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Alfonso Flores-Lagunes 

Dr. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes is a Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study oNew Content Itemf Labor (IZA), an international network of researchers around labor market research and policies since 2008. Dr. Flores-Lagunes has held faculty appointments at the State University of New York at Binghamton, the University of Florida, and the University of Arizona. He has been a visiting fellow in both the Industrial Relations Section and the Department of Economics of Princeton University, and visiting scholar and lecturer at Cornell, Ohio State, CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg), and the Central Bank of Mexico. He holds a B.A. in economics from Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) in Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from The Ohio State University. 
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Oded Galor

Oded Galor is the founder of Unified Growth Theory. He has contributed to the understanding of process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transitioNeuer Inhaltn from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe. Moreover, he has pioneered the exploration of the impact of human evolution, human genetic diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence. His interdisciplinary research has redirected research in the field of economic growth to the exploration of the long shadow of history and to the role of biogeographical forces in comparative economic development. It has spawned the influential literatures studying the impact of inequality on the process of development, the interaction between human evolution and economic development, the transition from stagnation to growth, and the impact of human diversity on comparative economic development. Oded Galor has led the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics and he is a Research Fellow of the CEPR and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER and CESifo, a Sackler Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow of the Economics Department at the Hebrew University. Furtheromre, he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, Co-Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Economic Inequality.
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Terra McKinnish

Terra McKinnish is a Professor of Economics and FacultNew Content Itemy Associate of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is also the Director of the Center to Advance Research and Training in the Social Sciences (CARTSS).  Her research focuses on topics in population economics and labor economics, with particular interest in marital sorting, marital quality and women’s labor market outcomes.
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Milena Nikolova

Milena Nikolova is an Associate Professor and RosalindNeuer Inhalt (this opens in a new tab) Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen. Before joining the University of Groningen, Milena was a Research Associate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), where she is now a Research Fellow. Nikolova is also a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel and the Brookings Institution and a Fellow at the Global Labor Organization. Milena holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Maryland, College Park (2014). Milena’s main areas of research include subjective well-being, job quality, transition and development economics, and entrepreneurship.
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Gregory Ponthiere

Gregory Ponthiere is a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics, UCLoNew Content Itemuvain, and an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. Before joining UCLouvain, he held permanent positions at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the University Paris XII, and was an Associate Researcher at the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on relations between economic and demographic outcomes, from a positive perspective (rationalization of stylized facts) and a normative perspective (design of a fair Welfare State). His publications include three books and articles in journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, the International Economic Review, Social Choice and Welfare and the Journal of Public Economics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
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Kompal Sinha

Kompal Sinha is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics within Macquarie Business Neuer InhaltSchool, Macquarie University, Australia. She is a member of the College of Experts at the Australian Research Council, Canberra. She is affiliated with the Health Economics Study Group at University of York (UK) and Global Labor Organisation (GLO) where she leads the research cluster “Health, Development, Inequality and Behavior”. Dr. Sinha is a member of the International Health Economics Association where she is serving as a member of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Promotion and Monitoring Group. She is also serving on the Health Economics Service Panel of Australian Government Department of Health for the NSW Government. Her research focusses on economics of health and development, especially issues relating to health inequality, intrahousehold bargaining, behaviour, retirement, nutrition and pricing of alcohol. Her interdisciplinary research applies econometrics and machine learning techniques to study causal impact of economic policy on health, alcohol demand and labor market outcomes. Dr. Sinha’s research has also devised methods to measure and analyse health related quality of life (Australian Quality of Life (AQoL-8D)); dynamic multidimensional deprivation; sub-national purchasing power parities. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including Health Economics, American Journal for Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Social Science and Medicine, Energy Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Income and Wealth, Economics and Human Biology, Value in Health, Quality of Life Research, British Medical Bulletin, Economic Record among others. Dr. Sinha was previously appointed at the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics and Centre for Health Economics at Monash University (Melbourne). She received her PhD in Economics from The Australian National University, MPhil (IGIDR) and BSc (Mathematics and Statistics) from University of Rajasthan.
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