Native Place: Shaoxing, Zhejiang
Department of Economics
Business School, Beijing Normal University
Beijing 100875, China
Tel:+861058807847 ; Fax:+861058801867
Email: xuhui@bnu.edu.cn
Education
2007.9-2011.9
Ph.D. in Economics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2004.9-2007.7
Master in Economics, East China Normal University
2000.9-2004.7
Bachelor of Arts, South West Jiaotong University
Work Experience
2011-2012
Teaching assistant (ATER), Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.
2010-2011
Teaching assistant (ATER), Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
Research Interests
Migration
Labor economics
Development economics
Experimental economics
Courses Taught
Microeconomics (Undergraduates)
Econometrics (Graduates)
Econometrics (Undergraduates) Professional Societies/Activities 2008- Researcher at GATE Lyon St Etienne, CNRS UMR 5824, France
Research Projects
NSFC Research Grant (China), “The impact of children on the family migration decision” (01/2016-12/2018), Principal investigator. 180.000 RMB.
SEM Research Grant for SRF: “The impact of subjective well-being on migrants’ decision” (04/2015-04/2017), Principal investigator. 25,000 RMB.
NSFC Research Grant (China), “Migration and the reshaping of consumption patterns” (09/2014-08/2017), Participant. 900,000 RMB.
Publications
• Main Journal Articles
"Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam,” with Nguyen, Quang & Villeval, Marie Claire, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Forthcoming.
“Left-behind children and return migration in China”, with Sylvie Démurger, IZA Journal of Migration, 4(10), 2015.
“Interview with Thomas Piketty”, Comparative Studies, 75, 2015.(In Chinese)
“Social identity and work effort in India: an experiment with Punjabi and Bengali in India”, Indian Ocean Economic and Political Review, 3, 2014. (In Chinese)
“Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China”, with Sylvie Démurger, 2011, World Development, 39(10), pp. 1847-1861.
“Return migration, occupational change, and self-employment: the case of Wuwei county”, 2010, China Perspectives, No.2010/4, pp. 71-86. [French version: Mobilité professionnelle et activités indépendantes des migrants de retour]
Book review on ‘Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China’, Rachel Murphy (eds.), 2009, London, Routledge, 2010, China Perspectives, No. 2010/2, pp. 80-83.
• Conference Papers/Presentations
02/2015 OECD Expert Meeting on Perspectives on Global Development, Paris, France.
07/2014 ORF Western-BNU Joint Workshop on Labor Market in China, Beijing, China
12/2013 The 5th international workshop on human capital, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
07/2013 SCERI-CCER Conference, National School of Development, Peking University.
04/2013 4th annual SEBA-GATE workshop, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne, Lyon, France.
12/2012 3rd Annual Xiamen University International Workshop on Experimental Economics and Finance, Xiamen, China.
07-08/2012 Asia Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
11/2011 Association Fran？aise d’Economie Expérimentale-LAMETA < Field Experiments > workshop, Montpellier.
09/2011 4ème Congrès du Réseau Asie et Pacifique, Paris.
05/2011 2nd Behavioural and Experimental Economics (BEE) workshop, Lyon.
04/2011 Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London (UCL), UK.
08/2010 10th Econometric Society World Congress (ESWC), Shanghai, China.
06/2010 2nd AMID Summer School “Empirical methods for development research”, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK.
06/2010 3rd World Conference of the European Association of Labour Economist (EALE) and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), University College London (UCL), UK.
06/2010 24th European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Essen, Germany.
01/2010 6th Graduate Seminar on China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
09/2009 58th Congrès d’Association fran？aise de Science Economique (AFSE), Paris, France.
• Working Papers
“How the economic behavior of the only child differs with child with siblings? Evidence from the lab and field experiments” (in Chinese), with Hoaran He, 2015.
“How disappointment changes the work effort: evidence from lab experiment in India”, with Arijit Das, Jie Liang and Yinxi Liu,2015
“Internal migration, family living arrangements and happiness in China”, with Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li,2015
“Migration and family arrangements in China”, with Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li, 2015
“What motivates charitable giving? Evidence from laboratory experiment”, with Huafang Li, Jie Liang, Yinxi Liu,2015
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