Research Interests
Labor Economics, Education Economics, Family Economics, Psychology Economics
Selected Publications
Published Papers
Todd, P. E. and Zhang, W. A Dynamic Model of Personality, Schooling, and Occupational Choice, (2020) Quantitative EconomicsFlinn, C. J., Todd, P. E. and Zhang, W. Personality Traits, Intra-Household Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap, (2018) European Economic Review
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
Todd, P., Zhang, W. Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach, (2022) CWPE2265Ran Gu, Cameron Peng and Weilong Zhang The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Portfolio-Choice Approach, (2021) CWPE2130
Chuan, A. and Zhang, W. Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment, (2021) CWPE2177
Behrman, J., Parker, S., Todd, P. and Zhang, W. Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico, (2021) CWPE2178
Flinn, C. J., Todd, P. E. and Zhang, W. Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap, (2020) CWPE2053
Recent Activities
Household Savings and Inequality: from Micro to Macro
The Janeway Institute, ESRC, The Keynes Fund and SHARE will be co-sponsoring a conference on "Household Savings and Inequality: from Micro to Macro", from 23-25th March 2023.
Event Date - Thursday 23rd March 2023 - Saturday 25th March 2023
Keynes Fund Celebrates 10 years
A decade of the Keynes Fund was celebrated with their nineth annual Research Day. Which featured a diverse collection of research papers presented, from funded projects.
Published on - Tuesday 6th December 2022
Early Life Skills and Human Capital Development Mini Conference
Cambridge-INET, the Centre for Macroeconomics and the Cambridge Faculty of Economics are holding a Mini Conference on the "Early Life Skills and Human Capital Development Mini Conference". It will take place on Wednesday 12th May 2021, 2.00pm-5.50pm BST (UK) and will be held online. See the event page for more details.
Event Date - Wednesday 12th May 2021
How Do People React To Lockdown?
Dr. Weilong Zhang and Xiaomeng Li (MPhil Student) have just published a Special Feature on The COVID-19 Economic Research website about "Pandemic Personalities: How do People React to Lockdown?", which explores whether a persons personality traits have an effect on their response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Published on - Friday 26th June 2020
COVID Economics Alumni Webinar Series - Iyer and Zhang
Cambridge-INET and Dr. Meredith Crowley are hosting a series of public lectures for Cambridge Alumni. In the fifth webinar in the series, How do Personal Attributes Affect an Individual's Engagement with Society Under COVID?, Dr Sriya Iyer examined the role of religion in pandemics, and how religiosity might interact with health concerns in the current crisis. Dr Weilong Zhang discussed how people with different personality traits may engage differently in containment measures, and the associations between personality traits and labour market outcomes in a pandemic situation.
Published on - Monday 1st June 2020
Research Grants
Risk Attitude and Portfolio Choice: An Intra-household Perspective (British Academy)
Keynes Fund Sponsored Projects
Zhang, W., Who Wears the Pants? Household Risk Attitudes and Intra-Household Financial Decision-Making (JHUN)
Zhang, W. and Yang, X., Second-Hand Tax: The Impact of Tobacco Tax on Intra-Household Consumption Allocation (JHXD)
COVID-19 Economic Research
Research Blog: Pandemic Personalities: How do People React to Lockdown?
Teaching
PIIA Paper 7 - Signalling, Wages Structure, Unions
PIIB Paper 1 - Contracts & Regulations, Education & Health
PIIB Paper 7 - Topics in Public Economics: Signalling, Job Search and Family Structure
S180 Labour Economics
PhD12 - Topics in Applied Microeconomics