Sisi Zhang

EDUCATION

FIELDS OF INTERESTS

• Instructor for Statistics EC 151, Department of Economics, Boston College Fall 2007, Spring 2009
  
• CSWEP Visiting Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Summer 2007
  
• Research Assistant For Professor Peter Gottschalk, Department of Economics, Boston College, Fall 2004 to Summer 2007
• Instructor for Labor Economics (distance study), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario Summer 2004
• Teaching Assistant for Applied Econometrics (Honors), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario Fall 2003
  

• How Do Wage Shocks Affect the Labor Supply Decisions of Married Couples? (Job market paper)
• Recent Trends in Household Income Dynamics for the United States, Germany and Great Britain
• Does Work Change Welfare Recipients' Attitudes?
• Women's Income and Child Nutritional Status in China

• Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, Fall 2008
• Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, Boston College, Spring 2008
• Travel Grant for Workshop on "Gender and the Labour Market", Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, March 2008
• Travel Grant, International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics, Xiamen University, China, December 2007
• CSWEP Summer Fellowship, Summer 2007
• Travel Grant, Department of Economics and Graduate Student Association, Boston College, 2007, 2008
• Summer Research Award, Department of Economics, Boston College, Summer 2005, 2006
• University Fellowship and Scholarship, Boston College, 2004-present
• Special University Scholarship and International Graduate Student Scholarship, University of West ern Ontario, 2002-2004
• Distinguished Graduate of the Year, Wuhan University, 2002
• University Fellowship, Wuhan University, 1998-2002

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Green Line Macroeconomics Workshop, Boston College and Boston University, September 2008
• The Society of Labor Economists Thirteenth Annual Meeting, poster session, NYC, May 2008
• Workshop on "Gender and the Labour Market", Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, March 2008
• 2008 Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2008
• 2007 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics,Xiamen, China
• 41st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Halifax, Canada, June 2007
• Dissertation Workshop, Boston College, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
  

INVITED SEMINARS

• Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Boston College, November 2008
• Luojia Young Scholars Seminar on Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, December 2007
• Research Department seminar, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, August 2007
  

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

• Discussant, 41st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Canada, June 2007
• Third European Workshop on Labour Markets and Demographic Change at University of Rostock, April 2008. Paper accepted with full travel grant
• 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Population Economics, June 2008. Paper accepted and selected as one of the ten graduate students who waived registration fee

REFEREEING: The Economic Journal

Statistical and Mathematical Packages: STATA, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS
Datasets: SIPP, PSID, CPS, IPUMS, CHNS, NEWWS, CNEF

 

Citizenship: P.R. China (F-1 Visa)
Languages: English (Fluent), Mandarin (Native)