Shuhong Peng is an associate professor of economics at School of Public Finance & Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics in China. He is the executive director of Jiangxi Provincial Society of Human Resources and Social Security and is also a research fellow of Global Labor Organization. He is an associate editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (an SCI journal of Nature). After receiving a doctoral degree in economics from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, he was engaged in postdoctoral research at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2013 to 2016. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Oklahoma in the United States from December 2019 to November 2020.
Shuhong Peng’s main research fields are labor economics and applied microeconometrics, with particular focus on human capital and labor market polices. He has published nearly thirty academic papers in China’s leading journals of labor economics such as China’s Population Science, Studies in Labor Economics, and Education and Economy. He is the author of two books entitled “Study on Fair Regulation in China’s Monopoly Industries” and “Research on the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries and Talent Policy in Jiangxi Province”, and has written several chapters in other books. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in labor economics and microeconometrics.
Shuhong Peng has completed an NSF project on “China’s College Premium: Evolutionary Characteristics, Cause Explanation and Influential Effect”, as well as many provincial research projects. He has won the first prize for the sixteenth outstanding achievements in Social Sciences in Jiangxi Province, the third prize for outstanding achievements in Education Science in Jiangxi Province, and the first prize for outstanding papers in Jiangxi Provincial Society of Human Resources and Social Security.