Zhuowen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, joined in October 2024. During Fall 2026, she is a visiting PhD student at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Before joining King's, she received an MSc in Public Policy from Fudan University and a BA in German from Nanjing University. She also spent exchange semesters at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Tübingen.

Her research interests are in social norms and inequality. She studies how social norms and state institutions shape economic inequality. She is especially interested in nation building, gender norms, and housing markets. Her current project investigates how low-barrier information technology shapes national integration in low-literacy societies, focusing on the rollout of wired broadcasting across rural China during the 1950s–1990s.

For more information, see https://zhuowenqin.github.io.

Research interests

• Applied microeconomics
• Development economics
• Political economy
• Urban economics

Office hours

Friday: 10.00 - 11.00.

Book via https://calendar.app.google/iBrSRV3HT5GmPdTi7 or e-mail me.

Teaching

5SSPP213 Econometrics

Latest publications

The Formation Mechanism and Improvement Path of Innovation Cluster Resilience (with Ye Liu), 2024, Fudan Journal (Social Science) (03), 177–189. [Chinese full text]

PhD supervisors

Dr Yonatan Berman, Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink, and Dr Theo Serlin.