Albert Park is Reader in Economics at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor (IZA). He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1996 and was previously Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist whose research focuses on the Chinese economy. Current research interests include education, health, and labor market development, poverty and inequality, and globalization and economic growth. He directs several large-scale household survey projects in China, including the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, and the China Urban Labor Survey; and has consulted frequently for the World Bank, most recently on an assessment of poverty and inequality in China. Dr. Park has published widely in leading journals in economics, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
