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Xia XING

Xia XING

Xia XING

Senior Lecturer

Xing is an applied micro-economist. Her academic work lies at the intersection of labor and public economics, with a primary focus on human capital formation. Her research investigates how institutions, public policy, the environment, and human behavior interact in shaping human capital development in both developed and developing economies.

She previously worked as a faculty member at Yale-NUS College from 2016 to 2025. She joined the LKY School as a Senior Lecturer in Economics in July 2025. She received her PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2016.

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  • Development Economics

  • Economics of Education and Health

  • Human Capital Formation

  • Labor Economics

  • Public Economics

  • Education and Training

  • Fertility and Migration

  • Health and Human Capital

  • Labor market dynamics and policy

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Journal Articles

  • Grades as Signals of Comparative Advantage: How Letter Grades Affect Major Choices (with Hongyan Li)

    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 227, 106717, November 2024

  • Does Information on Age-related Fertility Decline and Fertility Policies Affect University Students' Family and Career Expectations? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with Poh Lin Tan and Jessica Pan)

    PLoS ONE, Volume 18(11), e0287526, November 2023

  • The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants’ Integration: Does the Duration of Training Matter? (with Alex Pont-Grau, Yu-Hsiang Lei, and Joel Z. E. Lim)

    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 212, pp. 160-198, August 2023

  • Selective Mortality and the Long-term Effects of Early-life Exposure to Natural Disasters (with Margaret Triyana)

    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 85, Issue 4, pp. 773-804, August 2023
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