
I am Zihan Hu, a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. I am also associated with the Brooks School of Public Policy (previously the Department of Policy Analysis and Management) at Cornell University.
My research focuses on labor economics and development economics.
I am on the job market for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Email: zh282@cornell.edu
Education
Ph.D., Economics (funded by Brooks School of Public Policy), Cornell University, 2017-present
Master (by Research), Economics, National University of Singapore, 2014-2017.
A.B., Economics, Peking University, 2009-2014.
Awards and Grants
Ernest Liu '64, Ta-Chung and Ya-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2022
Humane Studies Fellowship, Insititute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, 2022
Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship, Graduate School, Cornell University, 2022
Sadov Graduate Student Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 2021
Field of Economics Excellence in Research Fellowship, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2021
Tapan Mitra Economics Prize for 3rd-year paper, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2020
Red Wilson Excellence in Economics Medal, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2019
Small Grants in Labor Economics, Department of Economics, Cornell University, 2019
Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society, 2018