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Xiaobo Zhang

Xiaobo Zhang

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
66
Citations
19801
World Ranking
566
National Ranking
18

Overview

Xiaobo Zhang is affiliated with Peking University in China and has contributed extensively to interdisciplinary research spanning environmental science, social sciences, and medicine. Their work frequently addresses topics linked to health impacts and socioeconomic changes, combining quantitative methods and policy analysis across various contexts.

The primary fields of study in Xiaobo Zhang's research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization consist of:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Ecology

The main research topics explored in their work are:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Xiaobo Zhang has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Yufeng Zhou
  • Xiaoyan Dong
  • Libo Wang
  • Renjie Chen
  • Jianguo Hong

Common venues for Xiaobo Zhang's publications are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Nature Food
  • China Economic Review

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Xiaobo Zhang include:

  • "The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from two-wave phone surveys in China," 2021, China Economic Review
  • "The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar," 2021, Food Policy
  • "Potential heterogeneity of urban ecological resilience and urbanization in multiple urban agglomerations from a landscape perspective," 2023, Journal of Environmental Management
  • ""Moving Umbrella": Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China," 2021, Journal of Development Economics
  • "The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes: the case of China," 2020, Journal of Population Economics

Best Publications

  • The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China

    Shang-Jin Wei;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness

    Ravi Kanbur;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995☆

    Ravi Kanbur;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Rural China: The Role of Public Investments

    Shenggen Fan;Linxiu Zhang;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?

    Xin Zhang;Xiaobo Zhang;Xi Chen

  • Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural-Urban and Inland-Coastal Inequality in China, 1983-1995

    Ravi Kanbur;Xiao-Bo Zhang

  • Spatial inequality in education and health care in China

    Xiaobo Zhang;Xiaobo Zhang;Ravi Kanbur

  • What Difference Do Polarisation Measures Make? An Application to China

    Xiaobo Zhang;Ravi Kanbur

  • China has reached the Lewis turning point

    Xiaobo Zhang;Jin Yang;Shenglin Wang

  • Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality

    Xiaobo Zhang

  • Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China

    Shenggen Fan;Xiaobo Zhang

  • How Does Globalisation Affect Regional Inequality within A Developing Country? Evidence from China

    Xiaobo Zhang;Kevin Honglin Zhang

  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China

    Xiaobo Zhang;Shenggen Fan;Linxiu Zhang;Jikun Huang

  • PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, GROWTH, AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN RURAL UGANDA

    Shenggen Fan;Xiaobo Zhang

  • From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

    Shang-Jin Wei;Zhuan Xie;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Reforms, Investment, and Poverty in Rural China*

    Shenggen Fan;Linxiu Zhang;Xiaobo Zhang

  • China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy

    Shenggen Fan;Ravi Kanbur;Xiaobo Zhang

  • The Rapid Rise of Cross-Regional Agricultural Mechanization Services in China

    Jin Yang;Zuhui Huang;Xiaobo Zhang;Thomas Reardon;Thomas Reardon

  • Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture

    Xiaobo Zhang;Jin Yang;Reardon Thomas

  • Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance

    Cheryl Long;Xiaobo Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan China Agricultural University
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University
Shang-Jin Wei
Shang-Jin Wei Columbia University
R. A. Briere
R. A. Briere Carnegie Mellon University
Yi Zhang
Yi Zhang Nanyang Technological University
Xiang Zhou
Xiang Zhou Wuhan University
Erwin H. Bulte
Erwin H. Bulte Wageningen University & Research
Linxiu Zhang
Linxiu Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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