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Yu Xieis Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.He is also affiliated with the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research, and the Center for Chinese Studies. At the Survey Research Center, he directs the Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP). Xie is also a visiting Chaire Professor of Peking University.
 
Xiaobo ZhangProfessor of economics at National School of Development, Peking University (PKU), and also a senior research fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington DC. His research areas are Development economics, agricultural economics and Chinese economy.
 
Qiang RenAssociate Professor at Institute of Population Research at Peking University. He is also the vice director of the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University. His research areas are population, environment and health, demography, issues on fertility, mortality, labor force, economics and environment, focusing primarily upon demography and quantitative methodology.
 
Zhang ChunniAssociate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Sociology, Peking University, and Associate Director of the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University. Her research focuses on social stratification and mobility, the sociology of population, and social survey methodology.
 
Yi Junjian, Economist, Boya Distinguished Professor of Economics at Peking University, and Professor of Economics at the National School of Development (NSD), Peking University. He also serves as the Chair of the NSD Academic Committee, Executive Editor of China Economic Quarterly, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics. His research interests primarily include the economics of artificial intelligence, health economics, labor economics, development economics, econometrics, and behavioral economics.
 
Previous member
 
Ping Tu, served as a member of the PI team from 2011 to 2022. Professor at Department of Marketing at Peking University. His research areas are pricing strategy, customer satisfaction and loyalty, new product diffusion modeling, and CRM and data mining.
 
International Advisory Committee
 
Yu Xie Princeton University
Donald Treiman University of California. LosAngeles (UCLA)
Yanjie Bian Xi'an Jiaotong University
Brienna Perelli-Harris University of Southampton
Narayan Sastry University of Michigan
Ming Wen University of Hong Kong
Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University
Ting Li Renmin University of China
Qi Xu Nanjing University
 
Previous members of the International Advisory Committee
 
Songxi Chen           Iowa State University and Peking University
Guang Guo             University of North Carolina
Wenfang Tang         University of Iowa
Xiaogang Wu           Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Bob Hauser              University of  Wisconsin
James Heckman       University of Chicago
James Lepkowski     University of Michigan
Duncan Thomas       Duke University  
Robert Willis             University of Michigan 
Jean Yeung               National University of Singapore
 
CFPS Project Office
 
Qiong Wu is the director of Projcet Office of China Family Panel Studies at the Institute of Social Science Survey. Wu has a doctorate degree in Psychometrics from Penn State University. Her research areas are quantitative methods in social sciences, cognitive function, and educational achievement. Before joining ISSS, she was a research associate at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. 
 
Lihong Dai, professional staff of Projcet Office of China Family Panel Studies, is in charge of data analysis and management.  She has a master's degree in Operational Research from Department of Applied Mathematics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She is proficient with SAS, matlab, ecxel vba, SQL.
 
Qi Zhen, professional staff of Projcet Office of China Family Panel Studies,  is in charge of data cleaning and analysis. She has a master’s degree in Finance at Tilburg University. She is competent in SAS, Python, Stata, SQL, etc.
 
Liping Gu, professional staff of Projcet Office of China Family Panel Studies, is in charge of data cleaning and analysis. She has a master’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is proficient with SAS, R, etc.
 
Yiwen Zhao, professional staff of Projcet Office of China Family Panel Studies, is in charge of data dissemination and user service. She has a master’s degree in Profesional Studies at University of North Alabama. She is proficient with SPSS, Endnote, etc.
 
Survey Team
 
Field operation is carried out by Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University. Description is available from Technical Reports.