After-school tutoring has risen globally despite limited evidence of effectiveness. We implement a randomized after-school tutoring program in rural China where many children are left-behind by parents in care of grandparents. Compared to tutees cared for by parents, those in care of grandparents reported much smaller home-tutoring reductions but larger test-score gains. We interpret our data analysis with a model with tutoring efficacy and substitution between private and public inputs both differing by family background: Increased public tutoring generates larger test-score gains for children who experience greater tutoring efficacy and lesser substitution with household inputs, consistent with our estimates.
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- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania Sep. 2009 – May. 2014
- B.A. in Finance, Peking University Aug. 2005 – Jul. 2009
Naijia Guo is currently an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and a B.A. in finance from Peking University in 2009. Her primary research fields are labor economics and family economics, and she specializes in structural labor. Naijia’s research covers a wide range of topics, including education, wages, unemployment, migration, and intra-household decisions. Her papers have been published in the International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Quantitative Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
- Introductory Econometrics (Undergraduate)
- Computational Methods in Economics (Graduate)
- Labor Economics (Graduate)
- Labor Economics
- Family Economics
- “The Effect of an Early Career Recession on Schooling and Lifetime Welfare” (International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1511-1545)
- “Do Elite Colleges Matter? Its Impact on Entrepreneurship Decisions and Career Dynamics” (with Charles Ka Yui Leung, Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (4), 1347-1397)
- “A Matching Model of Co-residence with a Family Network: Empirical Evidence from China” (with Xiaoyu Xia and Junsen Zhang, The Economic Journal, 2022, 132(648), 2873-2917)
- “Home Location Choice and Gender Gap in Commute” (with Yizhen Gu, Jing Wu, and Ben Zou, Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59(2), 545-575)
- “Tutoring Efficacy, Household Substitution, and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from an After-School Tutoring Program in Rural China” (with Jere Behrman, Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei, Hongliang Zhang, and Junsen Zhang, International Economic Review, 2024, 65(1), 149-189)
- “The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Free Education on Schooling: Direct Effects and Intra-Household Spillovers” (with Shuangxin Wang and Junsen Zhang, The Economic Journal, forthcoming.)
- 2023-2025 Principle investigator: Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), “Life-cycle Earnings Profiles and Wage Dynamics of Chinese Workers.”
- 2022-2025 Principle investigator: Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), “Gender Pay Gap, Residential Location Choice, and Work Location Choice.”
- 2017-2019 Principle investigator: Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), “The Impact of Parental Input and Child Care Input on Early Childhood Development.”
- 2016-2018 Principle investigator: Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Early Career Scheme (ECS), ”What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? A Model of Intergenerational Transfer and Education Choice.”
Reviewer of Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, International Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Health Economics, China Economic Review, Review of Economics of the Household, Pacific Economic Review, Contemporary Economic Policy.