Alina Wang
Assistant ProfessorOverview
Alina Wang is an Assistant Professor at Smith School of Business, Queen's University. She specializes in empirical economics with a primary research focus on political economy.
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Appointment Type
Tenure/Tenure-Track
Academic Area
- Business Economics
Interest Topics
- Development Economics
- Economic History
- Political Economy
Faculty Details
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Alina Wang is an empirical economist. She research interest primarily focuses on Political Economy (in both a historical and contemporary context), with special reference to education, human capital, social conflict, and political selection.
Before joining Queen's University, Alina Wang was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Hong Kong, and holds degrees in Economics from the University of Chicago (MA), and in Financial Engineering from Columbia University (MS, BS).
Academic Degrees
PhD | Economics (2023)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
MS | Financial Engineering (2015)
BS | Computer Science & Statistics (2014)
Columbia University, USA
Academic Experience
Smith School of Business | Queen's University
Assistant Professor (2024 - Present)
Northwestern University | USA
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024)
Publications
Working Papers
Standing by Loyalty: Leader’s Preference and Nation’s Path, 2023
Foreign-educated Elites, Ideology, and the Fall of Imperial China, with James Kai-sing Kung, 2021
Ideological Dissension and Selective Persecution in Cultural Revolution, 2022
Gendered Gateways: Evidence from Political Selection in China, 2022
Work in Progress
Media as Weapon, 2022
Origins of Settlement, 2022
Ethnic Segregation, with James Kai-sing Kung, 2022
China’s Internal Fault lines, with Nancy Qian, 2023
Research
Interests
Political Economy, Economic History, and Development Economics
Presentations
Conference & Seminars
2023 - University of Toronto, Northwestern University, Queen’s University
2022 - The 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting, University of Hong Kong
2021 - The 2021 ASSA Annual Meeting
2020 - CEPR (NYU Abu Dhabi), Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia
2019 - National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, The 7th International
Symposium on Quantitative History, University of Hong Kong