She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of Centre for Macroeconomics (CfM). She has received a B.Sc. in Economics from HKUST and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests span the theory of economic growth, labour markets and housing markets, with focus on the structural transformation, time allocation across skills, gender and across countries, fluctuations in the housing market in the presence of search frictions and more recently on Hukou system and labor misallocation in China. She has published in leading peer-refereed journals such as American Economic Review, American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Growth and Journal of Monetary Economics and more.