Dr Aijun Wang

Dr. Aijun Wang is a visiting fellow in the GI from Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2015. She is a professor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (in China). She got an economics PHD in Wuhan University (in China) and visited North Carolina State University (U .S.) as a visiting fellow in 2009-2010. Dr Wang has concentrated on gender inequality and women’s poverty for a long time, especially on the study of Chinese rural women’s poverty, migration and gender issues in the social and economic transformation.

Research Interests

• Poverty and gender studies
• Women's employment and migration
• Development economics
• Economic globalization and development
• Economic inequality
• Public policies

Selected Publications

• 'Gender gap and economic development.'  Economic Perspectives, June 2014, Vol.626 No. 6
• 'Agricultural reform policies and women’s production status.'  Journal of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, May/June 2013, Vol.198 No. 3
• 'Rural poverty measurements: A gender perspective.'  Journal of Wuhan University of Technology (social sciences edition) ,Sept./Oct. 2013, Vol.26 No.
• 'Rural female labor migration and poverty in China’s urban economic growth.'  Journal of Shandong Women’s University, May /June 2013, Vol 109 No.3
• 'What made women poorer in China’s rural economic transformation?' Journal of China Women’s University, July/Aug.2013, Vol.120 No. 4
• 'New progress of economic growth and development.'  Scocial Sciences Abroad, Sept./Oct.2011,Vol. 285 No.3
• 'Review of identity economics.' Economic Perspectives, Oct.2011,Vol. 608 No.10
• 'The intergenerational transmission of female poverty.' Finance and Economics, June 2009,Vol.255 No. 6
• 'Household poverty: In the intergenerational transmission perspective.' Journal of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, July/Aug. 2009, Vol.175 No.4
• 'A few questions of household economy in development economics.' Journal of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, may/June 2006, Vol. 156 No.3
• 'The new trends of the development economics.' Economic Perspectives, Jan.2006,Vol. 539 No.1
• 'On the methods of development economics.' Social Sciences Abroad, Jan/Feb. 2006,Vol. 253 No.1
• 'The development and revolution of Bio-Economics.' Social Sciences Abroad, Sept./Oct. 2008, Vol. 269 No.5, with Professor Yang Hutao
• 'Gender mainstreaming and poverty reduction mechanism.' Guangming Daily Review, December 28,2012