Tao Zhang
	Curriculum vitae (in pdf format) English Norsk
	Profile Born 1^st April, 1971, Shanghai, China Doctor rerum politicarum, February, 2004. Department of Economics ,  University of Oslo , Norway Research fellow at Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research Married to Xiaolin Wang on 15^th May, 2004.
	Research interests Labour market economics Microeconometrics Duration / survival data analysis Numerical optimisations
	Publications and working papers o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (1999), "Unemployment Duration in a Non-Stationary Macroeconomic Environment." Memoranda 14/99, Department of Economics, University of Oslo.  o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2000), "What behinds the rate of unemployment? Micro evidence from Norway" Nordic Journal of Political Economy, volume 26, issue 2, 2000, 143-170.  o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2000), "Labour Market Transitions and Economic Incentives" Memoranda, 15/2000, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. o Røed, K., Torp, H., Tuveng, I and Zhang, T. (2000), "Hvem vil og hvem får delta? Analyser av rekruttering og utvelgelse av deltakere til arbeidsmarkedstiltak i Norge på 1990-tallet" Rapport 4/2000. Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research. o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2002), "The Duration and Outcome of Unemployment Spells – The Role of Economic Incentives" Memoranda, 06/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2002), "A Note on the Weibull Distribution and Estimation Based on Grouped Duration Data" Applied Economics Letters, 2002,9,469-472. o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2003), "Does Unemployment compensation Affect Unemployment Duration?" Economic Journal, vol.113, No.484, 190-206. o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2003), "Unemployment Duration and Economic Incentives - Random Assignment without Social Experiments", Working paper. o Røed, K. and Zhang T. (2004), “Unemployment duration and economic incentives - A quasi random-assignment approach”, European Economic Reviews (forthcoming). o Raaum, O., Torp, H. and Zhang, T. (2002), "Business Cycle and Impact of Labour Market Programmes" Memoranda, 14/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. o Raaum, O., Torp, H. and Zhang, T. (2002), "Do Individual Programme Effects Exceed the Costs? Norwegian Evidence on Long Run Effects of Labour Market Training" Memoranda, 15/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. o Raaum, O., Torp, H. and Zhang, T. (2002), "Labour Market Training Participation in Norway 1991-1996: Construction of treatment and non-treatment groups by matching on observables", Frisch Centre Working paper 2002. o Zhang, T. (translator) Economists’ Mathematical Manual by Sydsæter, K. Strøm, A. Berck, P. Chinese Edition, Fudan Press, Shanghai, P.R.China. 经济学家数学手册， 张涛译， 谢识予校， 复旦大学出版社, 2001. o Zhang, T. (2003), "A Monte Carlo study on non-parametric estimation of duration models with unobserved heterogeneity", Memoranda, 25/2003, Department of Economics, University of Oslo.  o Zhang, T. (2003), "Identifying treatment effects of active labour market programmes for Norwegian adults", Memoranda, 26/2003, Department of Economics, University of Oslo.
	Contact information Tao Zhang Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research Gaustadalléen 21 0349 Oslo, Norway +47-22958816 (voice) +47-22958825 (fax) tao.zhang@frisch.uio.no
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