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Overview

Albert Francis Park is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, general health professions, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and safety research.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Albert Francis Park has coauthored frequently with several researchers including Piotr Lewandowski, Yasuyuki Sawada, Shu Cai, Rhea Molato-Gayares, and Kristina Butaeva.

The venues where Park's work has been published most often include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The World Bank Economic Review
  • International Journal of Educational Development
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Albert Francis Park include:

  • "Reducing single-use cutlery with green nudges: Evidence from China's food-delivery industry," published in Science in 2023
  • "Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data," published in The World Bank Economic Review in 2022
  • "Towards conceptualization and quantification of the digital divide," published in Information Communication & Society in 2022
  • "Microfinance Can Raise Incomes: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in China," published in SSRN Electronic Journal in 2020
  • "School entry age and educational attainment in developing countries: Evidence from China's compulsory education law," published in Journal of Comparative Economics in 2021

In addition to journal publications, Park has contributed to book publications, including a title in the Working Paper Series called "The global distribution of routine and non-routine work," published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001

    Junsen Zhang;Yaohui Zhao;Albert Park;Xiaoqing Song

  • Migration and rural poverty in China

    Yang Du;Albert Francis Park;Sangui Wang

  • Education and poverty in rural China

    Phil H. Brown;Albert Francis Park

  • The Chinese Labor Market in the Reform Era

    Fang Cai;Albert Francis Park;Yaohui Zhao

  • Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis

    Albert Francis Park;Dean Yang;Xinzheng Shi;Yuan Jiang

  • Regional poverty targeting in China

    Albert Francis Park;Sangui Wang;Guobao Wu

  • Microfinance with Chinese Characteristics

    Albert Francis Park;Changqing Ren

  • What is China's true unemployment rate?

    John Giles;Albert Francis Park;Juwei Zhang

  • Tests of Financial Intermediation and Banking Reform in China

    Albert Francis Park;Kaja Sehrt

  • How has Economic Restructuring Affected China’s Urban Workers?*

    John Giles;Albert Francis Park;Fang Cai

  • China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and implications for China’s workers

    Mary Gallagher;John Giles;Albert Francis Park;Meiyan Wang

  • Distributional Consequences of Reforming Local Public Finance in China

    Albert Francis Park;Scott Rozelle;Christine Wong;Changqing Ren

  • Market Emergence and Transition: Arbitrage, Transaction Costs, and Autarky in China's Grain Markets

    Albert Francis Park;Albert Francis Park;Hehui Jin;Hehui Jin;Scott Rozelle;Scott Rozelle;Jikun Huang

  • Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

    John Strauss;Xiaoyan Lei;Albert Park;Yan Shen

  • China's poverty statistics

    Albert Francis Park;Sangui Wang

  • School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India

    Abhijeet Singh;Albert Francis Park;Stefan Dercon

  • Bureaucrat to Entrepreneur: The Changing Role of the State in China's Grain Economy

    Scott Rozelle;Albert Francis Park;Jikun Huang;Hehui Jin

  • Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

    Albert Park;Sangui Wang

  • A better vision for development: Eyeglasses and academic performance in rural primary schools in China

    Paul Glewwe;Albert Francis Park;Meng Zhao

  • The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market

    Albert Park;Fang Cai

  • Power and wealth in rural China: The political economy of institutional change.

    Albert Francis Park

Frequent Co-Authors

John Giles
John Giles World Bank
Yaohui Zhao
Yaohui Zhao Peking University
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Paul Glewwe
Paul Glewwe University of Minnesota
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Chang-Tai Hsieh University of Chicago
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Loren Brandt
Loren Brandt University of Toronto
Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
Dean Yang
Dean Yang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hongbin Li
Hongbin Li Stanford University

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