Research interests/expertise

• Economic Growth and Demographic Changes
• Economic Development and Labour Migration
• Total Factor Productivity and Human Capital

Academic Awards and Distinctions

• The Chinese Economist Association (UK), Best PhD paper, 2008, Cambridge, U.K.
• The Chinese Economist Society, Chow Best Paper Honourable Mention, 2008,Tianjin, China.

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

• Zheng WEI and Rui HAO (2011), “The Role of Human Capital in China’s Total Factor Productivity Growth: A Cross-Province Analysis”, The Developing Economies, Vol. 49 (1):1-35.
• Marco G. ERCOLANI and Zheng WEI (2011), “An Empirical Analysis of China’s Dualistic Economic Development: 1965-2009”, Asian Economic Papers, MIT press, Vol. 10(3):1-29.
• Zheng WEI and Rui HAO (2010), “Demographic Structure and Economic Growth: Evidence from China”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 38 (4): 472-491.
• Rui HAO and Zheng WEI (2010), “Fundamental Causes of Inland-coastal Income Inequality in Post-reform China”, The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 45(1):181-206.
• Rui HAO and Zheng WEI (2009), “Sources of Income Differences across Chinese Provinces during the Reform Period: A Development Accounting Exercise”, The Developing Economies, Vol. 47(1):1-29. 
• Rui HAO and Zheng WEI (2009), “Measuring Inter-provincial Income Inequality in China: A Sensitivity Analysis”, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies‏, Vol. 7(1): 55-75.

Book Chapters

• Zheng WEI, Marco G. ERCOLANI and Rui HAO, “Understanding China’s Dualism Economic Growth over 1965-2009” Chapter 4 in Cai Fang, Yang Tao and Huang Yiping (eds.), Has China Passed through the Lewis Turning Point?  Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press of China, forthcoming. (in Chinese)
• Rui HAO and Zheng WEI (2009). “Understanding the income inequality between inland and coastal China: A systematic perspective”, Chapter 9 in Liu X. and Zhang W. (eds.), China’s Three Decades of Economic Reforms, London and New York: Routledge.

Teaching

• CRWF8000: Government, Markets and Global Change
• IDEC8011: Masters Research Essay