PIs

Yu Xie, is 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 Zhang, Professor 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 Ren, Associate 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 Chunni, Associate 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 Project 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 Project 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 Project 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 Project 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 Project 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.