YUHUA SHI
BSc (Fu Dan), GradDipPopSusDev (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ), MSocSci, PhD (NUS)
Postdoctoral Fellow, ACERH (ANU)
T: +61 2 6125 2422
E: yuhua.shi@anu.edu.au

Prior to her postgraduate studies, Dr. Shi was a researcher in a research institute in China , where she undertook research on issues related to population policy such as fertility choices, reproductive health and the wellbeing of women in reproductive age. She also worked on links between population and sustainable development, mainly on the topics of human capital development and education, and poverty reduction in China . Her research area expanded to exploring the interactions between economic growth and changing demography when she started her postgraduate study in Economics. Her research papers have been focusing on investigating the relationships between fertility choices, education, economic growth and their public policy implications; demographic transition, its short-tern and long-tern effects on economic development; and modeling the impacts of education and health investment on demographic factors through human capital development and income growth, and the transition dynamics of these factors. She has also paid special attention to the ageing problem in China : the trends and features of aging; and the welfare of the aged.

The main research interests of Dr. Shi are: health and family economics; macroeconomics; public finance; ageing, healthy ageing, and pension reforms. She is also interested in the links between income redistribution and inequality.