Kai Zhao

Subject Areas:

• Macroeconomics, Public Policy, Saving, Health, Inequality, the Chinese Economy.
  

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2011

Honors:

• Grillo Family Award for Excellence in Research (UConn), 2018-2019
• T. Merritt Brown Thesis Prize for best doctoral dissertation in Economics (UWO), 2011

Courses Taught:

• Quantitative Macro (PhD field)
• Macroeconomic Theory (PhD core)
• Quantitative Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergrad)

Selected Publications

“Rising Wealth Inequality: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurship, and the Decline in Interest Rate” (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 127, April 2022, Pages 86-104.

“The Evolution of Health over the Life Cycle” (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Karen Kopecky), Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 45, July 2022, Pages 237-263.

“Household Saving, Financial Constraints, and the Current Account in China” (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu), International Economic Review, Volume 61, Issue 1, February 2020.

“The Chinese Saving Rate: Long-Term Care Risks, Family Insurance, and Demographics” (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 96, June 2018.

“Social Insurance, Private Health Insurance and Individual Welfare“, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 78, May 2017.

“The Impact of the Correlation between Health Expenditure and Survival Probability on the Demand for Insurance“, European Economic Review, Volume 75, April 2015.

“Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending“, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 64, May 2014.

“War Finance and the Baby Boom“, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 17(3), July 2014.

“Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution“, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011, 11(1), Article 26.