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    LIANG Wenquan

    Associate Professor

    Department: Public Administration

    +86-1521 6655 378 

    liang_wenquan@tongji.edu.cn

    Address: Room 1133, Tongji Building A, Siping Road 1500, Shanghai, 200092

    Website: https://liangwenquan.weebly.com/

     

    Wenquan Liang is associate professor at School of Economics and Management, Tongji University.

    His research focuses on the causes and consequences of labor spatial distribution, with particular interest in migration, human capital, and urban development. He has published nearly 20 papers in leading international journals such as American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,International Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and China Economic Review, as well as top-tier Chinese journals including Social Sciences in China,Economic Research Journal,Management World, and China Economic Quarterly.

    His work has been recognized with several awards, including The Best Paper Award of China Economic Quarterly, and The Shanghai Outstanding Research Achievement Award for Young Economists.

    He has also served as principal investigator for projects funded by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program and General Program) and The Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (General Program).

    EDUCATION EXPERIENCE TEACHING AND RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDS/RECOGNITION

    Fudan University, Ph.D. Economics, 2015

    Xiamen University, M.A. Economics, 2012

    Hohai University, B.A. Mathematics, 2009

    Tongji University
    Associate professor, 2025-present
    Jinan University 
    Associate 2019–2025; Assistant 2017–2019
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Post doctor, 2015-2017

    Publication (In English)

    1. Khanna, Gaurav, Wenquan Liang, Mushfiq Mobark, Ran Song, “The Productivity Consequences of Pollution Induced Migration in China”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025,17(2): 184-224.
    2. Xunyong Xiang, Wenjie Luo, Bin Li, Wenquan Liang, Decentralized Government and Firm Pollution Discharges: Evidence from China’s Province-Managing-County Reform, Economic Modelling, 2025,144, March, 107005.
    3. Minhee Chae, Wenquan Liang, Sen Xue, 2025, Pandemics and Intergenerational Mobility of Education: Evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic in China, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 230, 106907
    4. Liang, Wenquan, Ran Song, Christopher Timmins, “Frictional Sorting: The Impacts of Dual Constraints on Mobility and Housing Supply in China”, International Economic Review, 2024, 65(4)：1747-1776.
    5. Xu, Hongwei, Wenquan Liang, and Kuanhu Xiang, The Environmental Consequences of Place-based Policies in China: An Empirical Study Based on SO2 Emission Data, China & World Economy, 2022, 30,4, 201-229.
    6. Freeman, Richard, Wenquan Liang, Ran Song, Christopher Timmins, Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 94,188-216.
    7. Liang, Wenquan and Ming Lu, Growth Led by Human Capital in Big Cities: Exploring Complementarities and Spatial Agglomeration of the Workforce with Various Skills, China Economic Review, 2019, 57,101-113.
    8. Liang, Wenquan, Ming Lu and Hang Zhang，Housing Prices Raise Wages: Estimating the Unexpected Effects of Land Supply Regulation in China，Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 9(33),70-81.

     

     Publication (In Chinese)

    1. Li, Mengqing, Wenquan Liang, jianhua Jiao, Impact of Gender Equality Awareness on Female Employment: An Empirical Analysis Based on Newspapers in China in the 1930s, Economic Science, 2024, 5, 220-240.
    2. Liang, Wenquan and Ruiting Zhong, The Gender Wage Gap within City: How Does Child Affect Maternal Job Spatial Location, China Economic Quarterly, 2023, 23, 5, 2042-2060.
    3. Liu, Xiuyan, Kejin Ni, Wenquan Liang, City Size， Communication Frequency， and Human Capital Externalities, Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2023, 5, 12-23.
    4. Ni, Kejin, Xiuyan Liu and Wenquan Liang, Digital Access and Local Government Trust: Is Contact an Effective Way to Improve Trust, China Journal of Economics, 2022 ,9,4, 216-242.
    5. Xiong, Ruixiang, Qian Wan, Wenquan Liang, On foreign-invested enterprises’ exit: economic development or labor market price regulation?, China Economic Quarterly, 2021, 21, 4, 1391-1410.
    • Reprint in China Economic Quarterly International, 2022, 2,9, 215-226.
    1. Liang, Wenquan, No Settlement, No Consumption: Why Depressing the Immigration Would Decrease the Wage of Native Residents?, Management World, 2018,1, 78-87.
    2. Liang, Wenquan and Ming Lu, Cities in the Post-industrial Economy: How City Size Affects Human Capital Externality in Service Industry?, Economic Research Journal, 2016,12, 90-103.
    3. Lu, Ming, Hang Zhang, Wenquan Liang, How the Bias toward Central/Western Land Supplies Boosts Wages in the East, Social Sciences in China, 2015, 5, 59-83.
    4. Liang, Wenquan and Ming Lu, The Divergence of Skill Composition: Exploring the Complementarity and the Agglomeration of Labors. Comparative Economic & Social Systems, 2015, 3, 185-197.
    5. Zhao, Xiliang, Wenquan Liang, Shi Li, Can Growing Housing Prices Explain High Household Saving Rates in Urban China? An Empirical Analysis Using CHIPs Data, China Economic Quarterly, 2013, Vol.13(1), 81-102.

    Referee

    China Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review for Economic Inquiry, The Annals of Regional Science, The World Economy, Urban Studies

    The Best Paper Award of China Economic Quarterly, 2013-2014

    The Shanghai Outstanding Research Achievement Award for Young Economists, 2019

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