Ph.D. Student, Economics
Kexin Zhang is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Economics at Boston University. Her research interests are in the broad areas of development economics and urban economics, with a focus on women’s empowerment in family planning usage and the economic impact of transportation infrastructure. She has been working with Professor Mahesh Karra on the behavioral bias in women’s family planning decisions in Malawi. In Summer 2019, she collaborated with Professor Karra and the IPA office in Lilongwe, Malawi to lead the implementation of a random controlled trial among 700 women in Lilongwe, which investigates women’s family planning usage and male involvement in women’s family planning choices. Meanwhile, she has also been independently working on the project that aims to evaluate the economic impact, agglomeration effect, and the spillover effect of the Chinese high-speed rail system under the supervision of Professor Sam Bazzi at the Department of Economics.
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