Professor
School of Economics
UNSW Business School
University of New South Wales
jane.zhang(at)unsw.edu.au
Tel
+61 2 9065 3432
Fax
+61 2 9313 6337
Office
430B UNSW Business School
Mailing Address
School of Economics | UNSW Business School | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052
Bio
I am a Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales. My research examines how preferences and beliefs are shaped by policy, how they interact with incentives, and the role that they play in determining a wide-range of social outcomes. My approach combines the use of tools from the experimental economics field, with the exploitation of natural experiments, field experiments, and controlled lab manipulations to make causal inferences about the determinants of preferences and beliefs. My work has been published in outlets such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review: Insights, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I received my PhD in Economics from U.C. Berkeley and BA in Economics from Stanford University.
Research
Response to Competition: Gender, Domains, and STEM choice (with Fanghua Li)
The Fundamental Determinants of Protest Participation: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Antiauthoritarian Movement (with Davide Cantoni, Louis-Jonas Heizlsperger, David Y. Yang, and Noam Yuchtman)
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 211.
The Competitive Woman: Evolutionary Insights and Cross-Cultural Evidence into Finding the Femina Economica (with Alessandra Cassar)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 197.
Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang, and Noam Yuchtman)
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021, 3(2).
Multiple Switching and Data Quality in the Multiple Price List (with Chi Wai Yu and Xuejing Zuo)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103(1).
Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Authoritarian Movement (with Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang, and Noam Yuchtman)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134(2).
Culture, Institutions, and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from The Communist Experiment in China
Economic Journal, 2019, 129(617).
Instructions (English) Instructions (Chinese) Photo of Experimental Session Risk game (English) Risk game (Chinese)
Curriculum and Ideology (with Davide Cantoni, Yuyu Chen, David Yang, and Noam Yuchtman)
Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125(2).
Competing for the Benefit of Offspring Eliminates the Gender Gap in Competitiveness (with Alessandra Cassar and Feven Wordofa)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016, 113(19).
Can Experimental Economics Explain Competitive Behavior Outside the Lab?
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