Ge Sun

Cohort Year: 2020

Advisors: Joe Kaboski (Chair), Taryn Dinkelman, Zachary Stangebye

Job Market Paper Title: Expected Fertility, Labor Market Contracts, and the Gender Wage Gap

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Labor, and Development

Ge grew up in Weihai, China. She is interested in understanding how labor market institutions and frictions in developing countries shape human capital investment and wage dynamics, with the help of both micro data and structural models. She is a doctoral student affiliate of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab. Ge earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Beijing Foreign Studies University and completed a dual-degree master’s at Peking University and the National University of Singapore.