Selected Publications
Ji-Liang Shiu, Sisi Zhang and Peter Gottschalk. 2024. "Family Income Dynamics 1970-2018: Putting the Pieces Together". Journal of Labor Economics. forthcoming. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732769
Robert Moffitt and Sisi Zhang. 2022. “Estimating Trends in Male Earnings Volatility with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics [download]
Moffitt, R, J. Abowd, J. Bollinger, M. Carr, J. Hokayem, M. McKinney, Wiemers, S. Zhang, and J. Ziliak. 2022. “Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility: Results from Survey and Administrative data”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics [download]
Shimeng Liu and Sisi Zhang. 2021. "Homeownership, housing wealth and transition into entrepreneurship - evidence from China", China Economic Review, 69: 101656. [download]
Zhentong Lu, Sisi Zhang and Jian Hong. 2021. "Examining the impact of home purchase restrictions on China's Housing Market". China Economic Review. 62: 101620. [download]
Weizeng Sun, Sisi Zhang, Chengtao Lin, and Siqi Zheng. 2021. "How do home purchase restrictions affect job search of elite graduate students?" Regional Science and Urban Economics. 87: 103644. [download]
Sisi Zhang and Robert I. Lerman. 2020. "Does homeownership protect individuals from economic hardship during housing busts?" Housing Policy Debate 19(4): 522-541. [download]
“The PSID and Income Volatility: Its Record of Seminal Research and Some New Findings" with Robert Moffitt, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 680 (1): 48-81.
"Economic Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results", with Robert Moffitt, AEA Paper and Proceedings, May 2018. [download]
"Understanding the Unequal Post-Great Recession Wealth Recovery for American Families", with Shuaizhang Feng, 2017, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 17(4). [download]
“Explaining Variation in Title Charges: A Study of Five Metropolitan Real Estate Markets”, with Robert Feinberg, Daniel Kuehn, Signe-Mary McKernan, and Doug Wissoker, 2015, Review of Industrial Organization 46:145-167 [download]
“Wage Shocks, Household Labor Supply, and Income Instability”, 2014, Journal of Population Economics. 27(3):767-796 [download]
“Disparities in Wealth Accumulation and Loss from the Great Recession and Beyond”, 2014, with Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Eugene Steuerle. American Economic Review 104(5): 240-244 [download]
“Do Racial Disparities in Private Transfers Help Explain the Racial Wealth Gap? New Evidence from Longitudinal Data”, 2014, with McKernan, Signe-Mary, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Margaret Simms. Demography 51(3): 949-974. [download]
“How Much Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Reduce Food Insecurity?” 2011, with Ratcliffe, Caroline and Signe-Mary McKernan. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(4):1082-1098. [download]
“Recent Trends in Household Income Dynamics for the United States, Germany and Great Britain,” 2010, Economics Bulletin, 30 (2010): 1154-72 [Download]
Robert Moffitt and Sisi Zhang. 2022. “Estimating Trends in Male Earnings Volatility with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics [download]
Moffitt, R, J. Abowd, J. Bollinger, M. Carr, J. Hokayem, M. McKinney, Wiemers, S. Zhang, and J. Ziliak. 2022. “Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility: Results from Survey and Administrative data”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics [download]
Shimeng Liu and Sisi Zhang. 2021. "Homeownership, housing wealth and transition into entrepreneurship - evidence from China", China Economic Review, 69: 101656. [download]
Zhentong Lu, Sisi Zhang and Jian Hong. 2021. "Examining the impact of home purchase restrictions on China's Housing Market". China Economic Review. 62: 101620. [download]
Weizeng Sun, Sisi Zhang, Chengtao Lin, and Siqi Zheng. 2021. "How do home purchase restrictions affect job search of elite graduate students?" Regional Science and Urban Economics. 87: 103644. [download]
Sisi Zhang and Robert I. Lerman. 2020. "Does homeownership protect individuals from economic hardship during housing busts?" Housing Policy Debate 19(4): 522-541. [download]
“The PSID and Income Volatility: Its Record of Seminal Research and Some New Findings" with Robert Moffitt, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 680 (1): 48-81.
"Economic Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results", with Robert Moffitt, AEA Paper and Proceedings, May 2018. [download]
"Understanding the Unequal Post-Great Recession Wealth Recovery for American Families", with Shuaizhang Feng, 2017, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 17(4). [download]
“Explaining Variation in Title Charges: A Study of Five Metropolitan Real Estate Markets”, with Robert Feinberg, Daniel Kuehn, Signe-Mary McKernan, and Doug Wissoker, 2015, Review of Industrial Organization 46:145-167 [download]
“Wage Shocks, Household Labor Supply, and Income Instability”, 2014, Journal of Population Economics. 27(3):767-796 [download]
“Disparities in Wealth Accumulation and Loss from the Great Recession and Beyond”, 2014, with Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Eugene Steuerle. American Economic Review 104(5): 240-244 [download]
“Do Racial Disparities in Private Transfers Help Explain the Racial Wealth Gap? New Evidence from Longitudinal Data”, 2014, with McKernan, Signe-Mary, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Margaret Simms. Demography 51(3): 949-974. [download]
“How Much Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Reduce Food Insecurity?” 2011, with Ratcliffe, Caroline and Signe-Mary McKernan. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(4):1082-1098. [download]
“Recent Trends in Household Income Dynamics for the United States, Germany and Great Britain,” 2010, Economics Bulletin, 30 (2010): 1154-72 [Download]