Ming-ang Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, and an Associate Researcher at the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance (CIDEG) at Tsinghua University. His main research areas include development economics and environmental economics. He has published numerous papers in journals such as Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Work Experience
2025-Present:
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Associate Researcher, Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University
2022-2025: Associate Professor, School of Public Finance and Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics
2020-2022: Assistant Professor, School of Public Finance and Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics
Educational Background
2015-2020: Ph.D. in Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
2018-2019: Visiting Scholar, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
2011-2015: Bachelor's Degree in Economics, School of Business, Nanjing University
Research Interests
Human Capital and Economic Development, Environmental Governance and Green Transition, Labor and Factor Allocation
Selected Publications in English (#Co-first author, *Corresponding author)
1.Li Han, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang#. “Ignorance is Whose Bliss: The Repeal of Compulsory Premarital Health Examinations and Marital Outcomes in Rural China”, forthcoming at Journal of the European Economic Association.
2.Yu Luo, Nan Wu, and Ming-ang Zhang#. “Environmental Regulation, Labor Income Share, and Implications for Inequality”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Published online. doi: 10.1086/741162
3.Hai Huang, Wei Huang, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang#*. “Gender Composition, Social Contexts, and Academic Performance in High-stakes Examination”, Journal of Development Economics, 2025: 176, 103509.
4.Jidong Chen, Xinzheng Shi, Ming-ang Zhang#*, and Sihan Zhang. “Centralization of Environmental Administration and Air Pollution: Evidence from China”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024: 103016.
5.Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang#*. “Waste Import and Air Pollution: Evidence from China's Waste Import Ban”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023: 102837.
6.Jidong Chen, Yukun Wang, Ming-ang Zhang#, and Xingyu Zhou. “On the Political Consequences of Local Deliberative Governance in China”, Political Science Research and Method, Published online 2025:1-21. doi:10.1017/psrm.2025.10037
7.Jidong Chen, Tainpei Ren, Lei Wang, and Ming-ang Zhang. “Understanding the Dynamics of ESG Rating Divergence: A Comparative Perspective from Social Credit Policy”, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2026: 28(1), 103-122.
8.Siwei Guo, Zhaopeng Qu, Weizeng Sun, and Ming-ang Zhang#*, “Special Economic Zones and Infant Mortality: Evidence from China”, Health Economics, 2024, 33(8), 1660-1681.
9.Ming-ang Zhang, Shuling Lu, Sihan Zhang, and Yanfeng Bai. “The Unintended Consequences of Minimum Wage Hikes: Evidence Based on Firm’s Pollution Emission”, Energy Economics, 2023: 106857.
10.Sihan Zhang, Ming-ang Zhang*, and Weizeng Sun, “Administrative Division Adjustment and Housing Price Co-movement: Evidence from City-County Mergers in China”, China & World Economy, 2022, 30(4).
11.Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang*, “How does Historical Trauma Affect Political Participation? Evidence from the Send-down Movement in China”, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 28(1): 3-43, 2020.
