Employment
Assistant Professor, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and School of Economics (SOE), Xiamen University, 2017-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, 2015-2017.
Research Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, 2012-2015.
Education
PhD in Economics, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, USA, 2015.
B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Xiamen University, China, 2009.
Research Fields
Applied Microeconomics
Labor Economics
Economics of Science, Technology, and Innovation
Teaching
Principles of Economics
Labor Economics
Li, Xiaoying, Dongbo Shi, Sifan Zhou*, 2023. "The Minimum Wage and the Locations of New Business Entries in China: Estimates Based on a Refined Border Approach." Regional Science and Urban Economics 99, 103876.
Zhou, Sifan*, Sen Chai, Richard B. Freeman, 2024. "Gender Homophily: In-Group Citation Preferences and the Gender Disadvantage". Research Policy 53(1), 103895.
Bai, John, Wang Jin, Sifan Zhou*. "Proximity and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Introduction of New Airline Routes". Accepted. Management Science.
(*Corresponding Author)
Principal Investigator, the China Ministry of Education (MOE) Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-2025.
Principal Investigator, Young Scientists Fund of NSF of China, 2019-2021.
