Associate Professor Fang Zheng

Selected Publications

In English:

Zhang, Z., Chen, Y., Luan, F., & Fang, Z. (2025).
Tourism, Technology, and Carbon: The Role of Robotics. Tourism Planning & Development, (forthcoming).

Fang, Z. (2025).
Intergenerational Support and Life Satisfaction of Older Parents in China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (forthcoming).

Zhang, X.M., Fang, Z., & Zhu, P. (2025).
Digital transformation and labor employment decisions: evidence from China. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1-15.

Fang, Z., Le, T., Yu, J., & Fan, M. (2025).
Evaluating Causal Effects of Increasing Block Pricing Policy on Residential Electricity Consumption in China. Managerial and Decision Economics, 46(3), 1661-1676.

Fang, Z., Kang, S.H., & May, S. (2024).
Does automation really reduce jobs? Asia and the Global Economy, 4(2), 100099.

Fang, Z., & Sim, N. (2024).
Does lifelong learning matter for the subjective wellbeing of the elderly? A machine learning analysis on Singapore data. PLoS ONE, 19(6): e0303478.

Chua, H.S., Sim, N., Kang, S.H., Shan, W., Fang, Z., May, S.M.H. (2024).
Slowing Workforce Growth: Predicting Labour Trends and Investigating Perspectives of Mature Workers and Women with Caregiving Responsibilities. Singapore Labour Journal, 3(1), 6-30.

Fang, Z., & Guan, C. (2024). 
Energy-growth nexus in Australia and New Zealand for the past 150 years – Evidence from time-varying and quantile Granger causality analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, 25867–25891.

Fang, Z., Ding, D., & Guan, C. (2024). 
Does methodology matter? A revisit of the energy-growth nexus in Asia Pacific countries. Economic Issues, 29(1), 5-34.

Cho, Y., Fang, Z., & Sim, N. (2023). 
Meritocratic Beliefs and Economic Growth: a Mediating Effect of Economic Inequality. Asia and the Global Economy, 3(2), 100072.

Tan, G.L.C., & Fang, Z. (2023). 
Family Social and Cultural Capital: An Analysis of Effects on Adolescent’s Educational Outcomes in China. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 10(21). 

Tan, G.L.C., & Fang, Z. (2023). 
The rural-urban divide: Family social capital, family cultural capital, and educational outcomes of Chinese adolescents. Journal of Economic Analysis, 2(2), 78-95. 

Fan, H., Fang, Z., Huang, B., & Zhou, M. (2022).
Prevalence of SOEs and intergenerational income persistence: Evidence from China. The World Economy, 45, 276-291.

Sakellariou, C., & Fang, Z. (2021).
Self-efficacy and interest in STEM subjects as predictors of the STEM gender gap in the US: The role of unobserved heterogeneity. International Journal of Educational Research, 109, 101821.

Fang, Z., & Wolski, M. (2021).
Human capital, energy and economic growth in China: evidence from multivariate nonlinear Granger causality tests. Empirical Economics, 60, 607-632.

Fang, Z., Huang, B., & Yang, Z. (2020).
Trade openness and the environmental Kuznets curve: evidence from Chinese cities. The World Economy, 43(10), 2622-2649.

Fang, Z., & Yu, J. (2020).
The role of human capital in energy-growth nexus: an international evidence. Empirical Economics, 58(3), 1225-1247.

Cai, X. J., Fang, Z., Chang, Y., Tian, S., & Hamori, S. (2020).
Co-movements in commodity markets and implications in diversification benefits. Empirical Economics, 58(2), 393-425.

Chang, Y., Fang, Z., & Hamori, S. (2020).
Human capital and energy: a driver or drag for economic growth. Singapore Economic Review, 65(03), 683-714.

Chang, Y., Fang, Z., Hamori, S., & Chow, D. (2018).
A sustainable metropolis: Perspectives of population, productivity and parity. Sustainability, 10(11), 4264.

Chen, Y., & Fang, Z. (2018).
Industrial electricity consumption, human capital investment and economic growth in Chinese cities. Economic Modelling, 69, 205-219.

Fang, Z., & Niimi, Y. (2017).
Does everyone exhibit loss aversion? Evidence from a panel quantile regression analysis of subjective well-being in Japan. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 46, 79-90.

Fang, Z. (2017).
Panel quantile regressions and the subjective well-being in urban China: evidence from RUMiC data. Social Indicators Research, 132(1), 11-24.

Fang, Z., & Chen, Y. (2017).
Human capital, energy, and economic development - Evidence from Chinese provincial data. Energy Economics, 68, 340-358.

Chang, Y., & Fang, Z. (2017).
Efficient, equitable and sustainable energy policy in a small open economy: Concepts and assessments. Energy Policy, 105, 493-501.

Fang, Z., & Chang, Y. (2016).
Energy, human capital and economic growth in Asia Pacific countries—Evidence from a panel cointegration and causality analysis. Energy Economics, 56, 177-184.

Chang, Y., Fang, Z., & Li, Y. (2016).
Renewable energy policies in promoting financing and investment among the East Asia Summit countries: Quantitative assessment and policy implications. Energy Policy, 95, 427-436.

Sakellariou, C., & Fang, Z. (2016).
Returns to schooling for urban and migrant workers in China: a detailed investigation. Applied Economics, 48(8), 684-700.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2016).
Social insurance, income and subjective well-being of rural migrants in China—An application of unconditional quantile regression. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(4), 1635-1657.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2016).
Living standards inequality between migrants and local residents in urban China—A quantile decomposition. Contemporary Economic Policy, 34(2), 369-386.

Fang, Z. (2016).
Data on examining the role of human capital in the energy-growth nexus across countries. Data in Brief, 9, 540-542.

Adireksombat, K., Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2016).
The evolution of gender wage differentials in Thailand: 1991–2007—An application of unconditional quantile regression. Singapore Economic Review, 61(05), 1550094.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2015).
Glass ceilings versus sticky floors: Evidence from Southeast Asia and an international update. Asian Economic Journal, 29(3), 215-242.

Sakellariou, C., & Fang, Z. (2014).
The Vietnam reforms, change in wage inequality and the role of the minimum wage. Economics of Transition, 22(2), 313-340.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2013).
Discrimination in the equilibrium search model with wage-tenure contracts. Annals of Economics and Finance, 14(2), 451-480.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2013).
Evolution of urban–rural living standards inequality in Thailand: 1990–2006. Asian Economic Journal, 27(3), 285-306.

Fang, Z., & Sakellariou, C. (2011).
A case of sticky floors: Gender wage differentials in Thailand. Asian Economic Journal, 25(1), 35-54.

In Chinese:

Lin Ye, Yan-qiong Li, Zheng Fang, Jiang Yu and Zi-zhen Guo (2020).
Income increase and poverty reduction effect of cultural industries poverty alleviation: Theory and experience from farmer paintings in Guizhou province. Journal of Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, 2, 84-97. “high-impact research paper award” by CNKI in Mar 2025

Jinying Yang, Liang Ma, Zheng Fang and Cuixiang He (2016).
Gender wage differentials in urban China- Unconditional quantile decomposition and double decomposition. China Review of Political Economy, 7(1), 63-88.

Cuixiang He, Zheng Fang and Xingming Fang (2015).
Higher education, wage premium of the public sector and wage differences between public and non-public sectors. Journal of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, 6, 21-33.

Cuixiang He and Zheng Fang (2015).
Wage differentials between the public and non-public sectors in China. Review of Investment Studies, 3, 4-18 (lead article).

Zheng Fang (2014).
Comparative study of accreditation of engineering education in signatories of Washington Accord. Higher Education Development and Evaluation, 30(4), 66-76.

Zheng Fang (2013).
On the internationalization process of Chinese engineering education accreditation. Research in Higher Education of Engineering, 6, 72-76.