乐播传媒

About

Maurer-Fazio is the Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics at 乐播传媒 College. She is also a Research Fellow at the 听in Bonn, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and an advanced certificate in Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. She studied Chinese at the Inter-university Program for Chinese Language in Taipei. She received both her M.A. and Honors B.A. in economics at the University of Western Ontario. She has served on the editorial boards of the , the , and 听and on the advisory board of the听Chinese Women Economists Network.

Maurer-Fazio鈥檚 research program focuses on labor market developments in China.听Her most recent work includes: (1) a series of papers on China鈥檚 rural elders (their work to 鈥渞etirement鈥� transitions, the relationship between their co-residency with adult children and happiness, and the extent, causes and consequences of being 鈥渓eft behind鈥� when adult children migrate) and; (2) a series of resume (correspondence) audit studies, which focus on the role of ethnicity, facial attractiveness, and employment status in the hiring practices of Chinese firms using Internet job boards. She is听co-editor (with Sarah Cook) of听The Workers鈥� State Meets the Market: Labour in China鈥檚 Transition.听She publishes in both economic and China journals such as The Journal of Human Resources, The China Journal, The Journal of Comparative Economics, China Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower, Feminist Economics, and the Journal of Contemporary China.

Her teaching includes courses on introductory microeconomics, economic development, China鈥檚 economic reforms, work and workers in China, food and famines in China, the Japanese economy, and the nexus between environmental protection and economic development in China. During her time at 乐播传媒 College, Maurer-Fazio has co-directed four fall-semester programs in Nanjing, one fall-semester program in Kunming, brought students to China and Taiwan several times for 5-week intensive courses, and taught for a semester in the Associated Kyoto Program.

Education
– Ph.D. in Economics and Advanced Certificate in Asian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
– M.A. in Economics, University of Western Ontario
– Honors B.A. in Economics, University of Western Ontario

Selected publications

DOI:听 (Published Online August, 2019)

DOI 10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0251

DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1407032 (Published Online December 22, 2017.)

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret and Rachel Connelly, 鈥淗ow Do Caregiving Responsibilities Shape the Time Use of Women and Men in Rural China?鈥� in Gender and Time Use in a Global Context edited by Rachel Connelly and Ebru Kongar, Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2017.

Connelly, Rachel and Margaret Maurer-Fazio,

鈥淐hildcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982鈭�2000鈥� (with Rachel Connelly, Lan Chen, Lixin Tang) Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2011, Volume 46, Number 2, pp.261-294.

鈥淎n Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China,鈥� (with James W. Hughes and Dandan Zhang) Feminist Economics, July/October 2007, Volume 13, Number 3-4, pp. 125-153.

鈥淭he Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women,鈥� (with James Hughes) the Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2002, Volume 30, No.4, pp.709-731

鈥淓ducation and Earnings in China鈥檚 Transition to a Market Economy: Survey Evidence from 1989 and 1992,鈥� China Economic Review, 1999, Volume 10, No. 1, pp.17-40鈥�