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ZHANG Lin

Department of Economics　Associate Professor

Last Updated :2024/05/15

Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China
Lin Zhang
China Economic Review Elsevier BV 74 101805 - 101805 1043-951X 2022/08 [Refereed]

Age matters for girls: School entry age and female graduate education
Lin Zhang
Economics of Education Review Elsevier BV 86 102204 - 102204 0272-7757 2022/02 [Refereed]

One-child policy, economic sector, and female labor supply: evidence from urban China
Lin Zhang
Applied Economics Letters Informa UK Limited 1 - 6 1350-4851 2022/01 [Refereed]

Education Expenditure and Parenting Styles: Evidence from Cognitive Development in China
Lin Zhang
Journal of Family and Economic Issues Springer Science and Business Media LLC 42 (4) 729 - 744 1058-0476 2021/12 [Refereed]

Substitutability in Human Capital Formation and Education Inequality
Lin Zhang
Economics Bulletin 39 (1) 55 - 63 2019/01 [Refereed]

Welfare-enhancing parental altruism and children’s habit formation
Lin Zhang; Shinsuke Ikeda
International Review of Economics Springer Verlag 63 (3) 281 - 303 1863-4613 2016/09 [Refereed]

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation to children’s habit formation, as children are unaware of their developing habits while young and only become cognizant with age. We show that an altruistic mother (1) maintains the amount of income transferred to her child lower than the child would desire and (2) reduces further income transfer upon an exogenous increase in case of a particular negative habit of the child. The child, when grown, may end up being grateful for the small income transfer if the mother is sufficiently altruistic and has a relatively high income: When evaluated by the realized habitual preferences, a small income transfer leads to greater welfare. This implies that parents from richer families tend to appreciate the authoritative parenting practice.

Saving and retirement behavior under quasi-hyperbolic discounting
Lin Zhang
Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie 109 (1) 57 - 71 0931-8658 2013 [Refereed]

This paper investigates saving and retirement behavior using a quasi-hyperbolic discounting model with endogenous labor supply. The behavior of quasi-hyperbolic-discounting consumers is compared with optimal behavior, which is obtained under exponential discounting. The quasi-hyperbolic discounters, whether naïve or sophisticated, under-save and retire early compared with an exponential discounter, if and only if the present-biased marginal utility of future consumption decreases with stronger present bias. Logarithmic utility functions and constant-absolute-risk-aversion utility functions can both exhibit this property. In other words, quasi-hyperbolic discounting explains why, consistent with previous empirical studies, under-savers might also be early retirers. Under logarithmic utility, a wage tax and an interest subsidy can counteract the under-saving and early retirement and improve consumer welfare. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Legal Minimum Age of Marriage and Female Education
日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業
Date (from‐to) : 2023/04 -2027/03
Author : 張琳

Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: The role of parenting practices
文部科学省: 科学研究費補助金若手研究：
Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2021/03
Author : 張琳