Christina Jenq
Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics
Economics
Shanghai University
China
Biography
Christina Jenq is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies. She holds a PhD from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Harvard College. Professor Jenq’s research interests are Gender, Discrimination, Labor Economics, and Chinese Economic History.
Research Interest
Labor Economics, Gender Inequality,Human Capital
Publications
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Jenq, Christina. “The Relationship Between Cohort Sex Ratios and Relative Female Educational Attainment in post-1949 China.†Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2014.
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Jenq, Christina. “Sampling Bias in the China Population Censuses since 1982.†Working Paper, 2015.
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Jenq, Christina. “Privatization, Retirement Policy, and Labor Market Gender Gaps in Urban China, 1990-2005.†Working Paper, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, 2015.
