Junfu Zhang

Research Fellow

Clark University

juzhang@clarku.edu

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Junfu Zhang is a professor of economics at Clark University. He specializes in urban and regional economics. His research interests include entrepreneurship and job creation, urbanization in China, high-tech industrial clusters, regional development, and racial housing segregation. Zhang received a B.A. from Renmin University of China and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, both in economics. He was a dissertation fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2000-2001. Before joining Clark University in 2006, he worked as a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. He served as the president of the Chinese Economists Society (CES) from 2019-2020.

Junfu Zhang joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4413

Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model

Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51(1), 167-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3888

Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series

David Neumark, Brandon Wall, Junfu Zhang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 16-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3245

Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis

Junfu Zhang, Xue Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2992

A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Junfu Zhang

published under the title 'Why Do Some U.S. Universities Generate More Venture-Backed Academic Entrepreneurs than Others?' in: Venture Capital, 2009, 11(2), 133-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2964

The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Junfu Zhang

published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(2), 187-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2545

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Stephen Ciccarella

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1774

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Brandon Wall

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 39-83