Belton M. Fleisher

Research Fellow

Ohio State University

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Belton Fleisher attended Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1961. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago 1961-65 and joined the Ohio State University faculty in 1965, where he is professor of economics. He is currently a Senior Fellow and Special Term Professor of the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. He has authored and coauthored over 40 articles in professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Education, and China Economic. He has published a number of books, including The Economics of Delinquency (1966) and what is considered by many to be the first "modern" labor economics text, Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence (1970). Since 1990, his research has focused on the Chinese economy. He currently serves as a Executive Editor of China Economic Review.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5880
Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, Deng Quheng
substantially revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44 (co-authored by Simon Chang)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5526
Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Simon Chang, Belton M. Fleisher, Seonghoon Kim, Shi-yung Liu
published in: Econmic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (3), 519-36.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5194
The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Seonghoon Kim, Deng Quheng, Belton M. Fleisher, Shi Li
published in: Word Development, 2014, 54, 232-242
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3576
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Min Qiang Zhao
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2823
Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
Xiaojun Wang, Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shi Li
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, 78-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2703
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Min Qiang Zhao
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1446
Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shi Li, Xiaojun Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1182
Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Xiaojun Wang
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370
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