TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Focus:

Labor Economics (Undergraduate, Graduate)

Economics of Aging (Graduate)

Health Economics (Graduate)

Microeconomics (Undergraduate, Graduate)

Socioeconomic Surveys: Theory, Methods, and Practice (Undergraduate)

Data Analysis in Socioeconomic Surveys (Undergraduate)

Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics (Graduate)

Advanced Economics Seminar (Undergraduate)

Managerial Economics (MBA)

Research Areas: Labor Economics,ŸHealth Economics,ŸEconomics of Aging

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Wuhan University Dong Fureng Institute of Economic and Social Development, Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, December 2023 to present

Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, December 2013 to November 2023

Visiting Scholar, Development Research Group, World Bank, July 2002 to February 2003

Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, August 2001 to present

Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University Department of Economics, September 2000 to December 2000

Faculty Member, Winrock Foundation-funded National Agricultural Economics Doctoral Program, China Agricultural University, January 1996 to December 1996

Associate Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, August 1997 to August 2001

Lecturer, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, September 1996 to August 1997

Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China, January 1996 to August 1996

Assistant Professor of Economics, George Washington University, USA, September 1993 to December 1997

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Scholar, Development Research Group, World Bank, July 2002 to February 2003

Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University Department of Economics, September 2000 to December 2000

Assistant Professor of Economics, George Washington University, USA, September 1993 to December 1997

MANAGERAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Researcher, Guosen Securities Corporation, Shenzhen, 2000-2003

Co-Director, China Women Economists Research and Training Program, Peking University, 2002-2012

Director, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), 2007-Present

Deputy Director, Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University, 2011-2023

Adjunct Researcher, Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, 2018-Present

Executive Dean, Institute for Healthcare Data Science, Wuhan University, 2023-Present

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE)

Senior Consultant for Changsha Resident of National Auditing Office, 2012-2013

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

ŸChen, Xinxin, Qinqin Meng, Yafeng Wang, Yao Yao, and Yaohui Zhao. "Insurance pools' merging in China needs careful design." The Lancet, 401, no. 10377 (2023): 642. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00128-9

ŸDorina Cadar, Laura Brocklebank, Li Yan, Yaohui Zhao, Andrew Steptoe. “Socioeconomic and contextual differentials in memory decline: A cross-country investigation between England and China,” Journal for Gerontology: Social Science (January 10, 2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac163

ŸWang, Gewei., Yao Yao, Yafeng Wang, Jinquan Gong, Qinqin Meng, Hui Wang, Wenjin Wang, Xinxin Chen & Yaohui Zhao. Determinants of COVID-19 vaccination status and hesitancy among older adults in China. Nat Med (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02241-7

ŸChen, Xinxin, John Giles, Yao Yao, Winnie Yip, Qinqin Meng, Lisa Berkman, He Chen, Xi Chen, Jin Feng, Zhanlian Feng, Elena Glinskaya, Jinquan Gong, Perry Hu, Haidong Kan, Xiaoyan Lei, Xiao Liu, Andrew Steptoe, Gewei Wang, Harold Wang, Huali Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yafeng Wang, Li Yang, Luxia Zhang, Quan Zhang, Jing Wu, Zunyou Wu, John Strauss, James Smith, Yaohui Zhao. “The path to healthy ageing in China: A Peking University–Lancet Commission,” The Lancet November 21, 2022

ŸGong, Jinquan, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Yanfeng Chen, Qinqin Meng, Peng Yang, Yao Yao, Yaohui Zhao, ”Nowcasting and forecasting the care needs of the older adults in China: estimates from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS),” The Lancet Public Health. November 21, 2022

ŸGong, Jinquan, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang, and Yaohui Zhao. "Consumption and poverty of older Chinese: 2011–2020." The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 23 (2022): 100410.

ŸWang, Yuzhou, Yafeng Wang, Hao Xu, Yaohui Zhao, Jillian D Marshall. “Ambient air pollution and socioeconomic status in China.” 2022. Environmental Health Perspectives, 130(6): 067001. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP9872.

ŸZhang, Yuan S., John A. Strauss, Peifeng Hu, Yaohui Zhao, and Eileen M. Crimmins. "Links between mortality and socioeconomic characteristics, disease burden, and biological and physical functioning in the aging Chinese population." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77, no. 2 (2022): 365-377.

ŸJohn Giles, Xiaoyan Lei, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang, and Yaohui Zhao, “One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China.” Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, October, 1-23, 2021. DOI 10.1017/S1474747221000391

ŸHuai-yu Wang, Qinqin Meng, Chao Yang, Yafeng Wang, Guilan Kong, Yaohui Zhao, Fang Wang & Luxia Zhang. “Association between pulse pressure, systolic blood pressure and the risk of rapid decline of kidney function among general population without hypertension: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS).” J Transl Med 19, 512 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-021-03176-8

ŸBo Hou, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang, Yaohui Zhao. 2021. “The health capacity to work at older ages in urban China,” China Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101581

ŸQingli Zhang, Cong Liu, Yafeng Wang, Jinquan Gong, Gewei Wang, Wenzhen Ge, Renjie Chen, Xia Meng, Yaohui Zhao, Haidong Kan (2020). Associations of long-term exposure to ambient nitrogen dioxide with indicators of diabetes and dyslipidemia in China: a nationwide analysis. Chemosphere, 128724. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128724 

ŸLili Liu, Ming Zhu, Qinqin Meng, Yafeng Wang, Yaohui Zhao, Dawei Xie, Luxia Zhang and Ming-hui Zhao (2020) “Association between kidney function and the risk of cancer: Results from the China Health and Retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS),” Journal of Cancer 2020, Vol. 11

ŸYuan S. Zhang, Peifeng Hu, John A. Strauss, Yaohui Zhao, Yafeng Wang and Eileen M. Crimmins (2020) “Ascertaining cause of mortality among middle-aged and older persons using computer-coded and expert review verbal autopsies in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study,” GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION, 13:1, 1768502

ŸWenwen Liu, Qinqin Meng, Yafeng Wang, Chao Yang, Lili Liu, Huaiyu Wang, Zaiming Su, Guilan Kong, Yaohui Zhao, Luxia Zhang (2020) “The association between reduced kidney function and hearing loss: a cross-sectional study”, BMC Nephrology, 21:145.

ŸCui, Hanxiao, James Smith, Yaohui Zhao. 2020. “Early-life Deprivation and Health Outcomes in Adulthood: Evidence from Childhood Hunger Episodes of Middle-aged and Elderly Chinese” Journal of Development Economics, Volume 143, 102417

ŸChen, X., E. Crimmins, P. Hu, J.K. Kim, Q. Meng, J. Strauss, Yafeng Wang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao. 2019. Venous Blood-based Biomarkers in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS): Rationale, Design, and Results of the 2015 Wave. American Journal of Epidemiology 188(11): 1871-1877.

ŸQinqin Meng, Huali Wang, John Strauss, Kenneth Langa, Xinxin Chen, Mingwei Wang, Qiumin Qu, Wei Chen, Weihong Kuang, Nan Zhang, Tao Li, Yafeng Wang, Yaohui Zhao. 2019. “Validation of neuropsychological tests for the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol,” International Psychogeriatrics, Volume 31, Issue 12, December, pp. 1709-1719

ŸRui Zhao & Yaohui Zhao (2018).  The Gender Pension Gap in China, Feminist Economics, 24:2, 218-239, DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1411601

ŸXinxin Chen, John Giles, Yafeng Wang & Yaohui Zhao (2018). Gender Patterns of Eldercare in China, Feminist Economics, 24:2, 54-76,DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2018.1438639

ŸQin Li, Yafeng Wang & Yaohui Zhao (2018). The Impact of China's New Rural Pension Program on Elderly Labor, Grandchild Care, and Old-Age Support, Feminist Economics, 24:2, 265-287,  DOI:  10.1080/13545701.2017.1421768

ŸRachel Connelly, Xiao-yuan Dong, Joyce Jacobsen, Yaohui Zhao. (2018).  The Care Economy in Post-Reform China: Feminist Research on Unpaid and Paid Work and Well-Being. Feminist Economics 24:2, pages 1-30. 

ŸMark D. Peterson, Kate Duchowny, Qinqin Meng, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Yaohui Zhao, “Low Normalized Grip Strength is a Biomarker for Cardiometabolic Disease and Physical Disabilities Among U.S. and Chinese Adults,” Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 2017  Oct 12;72(11):1525-1531

ŸCong Liu, Renjie Chen, Yaohui Zhao, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Yang Liu, Xia Meng, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Weihua Li, Haidong Kan, “Associations between ambient fine particulate air pollution and hypertension: A nationwide cross-sectional study in China,” Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 584–585, 15 April 2017, Pages 869-874

ŸCong Liu, Renjie Chen, Yaohui Zhao, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Yang Liu, Xia Meng, Yafeng Wang, Haidong Kan, “Associations between ambient particulate air pollution and type 2 diabetes prevalence, blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin in China,” Environment International, 92-93: 416-421, 2016.

ŸChuanchuan Zhang, Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Yaohui Zhao. “Health Insurance and Health Care among the Mid-Aged and Older Chinese: Evidence from the National Baseline Survey of CHARLS,” Health Economics, 2016

ŸYaohui Zhao, Eileen Crimmins, Perry Hu, Yang Shen, James P. Smith, John Strauss, Yafeng Wang, Yuan Zhang. “Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Management of Diabetes Mellitus among Older Chinese: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.” International Journal of Public Health, Volume 61, Issue 3, pp 347-356, April 2016

ŸAng Sun and Yaohui Zhao. “Divorce, Abortion, and the Child Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China.” Journal of Development Economics, vol. 120, issue C, pages 53-69, 2016

ŸWei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Yaohui Zhao. "One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins." Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (3): 467-476，2016.

ŸLi Han, Tao Li and Yaohui Zhao. “How Status Inheritance Rules Affect Marriage Segregation: Evidence from China.” the Economic Journal, 125(589), 1850-1887, 2016.

ŸXiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao. “Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS National Baseline.” China Economic Journal, Volume 8, Issue 3, pages 191-214, 2015

ŸAvraham Ebenstein and Yaohui Zhao. “Tracking rural-to-urban migration in China: Lessons from the 2005 inter-census population survey.” Population Studies, Volume 69, Issue 3, 2015, pages 337-353

ŸXiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Xiaoting Sun, Peng Zhang and Yaohui Zhao. “Depressive Symptoms and SES Among the Mid-aged and Elderly in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study”, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 120, November 2014, pp.224-232.

ŸJames Smith, John Strauss, Yaohui Zhao*, “Healthy Ageing in China,” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 4, December 2014, 37-43

ŸXiaoyan Lei, James P. Smith*, Xiaoting Sun, Yaohui Zhao. “Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS,” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 4, December 2014, 46-55

ŸYaohui Zhao*, James P. Smith, and John Strauss. "Can China age healthily?" The Lancet 384.9945 (2014): 723-724.

ŸYaohui Zhao*, Hu, Yisong, James Smith, John Strauss, Gonghuan Yang. “Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS),” International Journal of Epidemiology, (2014) 43 (1): 61-68 doi:10.1093/ije/dys203

ŸXiaoyan Lei, Xiaoting Sun, John Strauss, Yaohui Zhao, Gonghuan Yang, Perry Hu, Yisong Hu, Xiangjun Yin, “Health Outcomes and Socio-economic Status among the Mid-Aged and Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS National Baseline Data,” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 3 (2014), 29-43

ŸHuang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John and Zhao, Yaohui: Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 5, No. 2, 86-121, 2013

ŸJunsen Zhang, Yaohui Zhao, Albert Park, Xiaoqing Song. “Economic Returns to Schooling in Urban China, 1988 to 2001,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 33, No. 4, 730-752, 2005

ŸYaohui Zhao. “Labor migration and earnings differences: the case of China,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 47, No. 4, 767-782, July 1999

ŸYaohui Zhao. “Leaving the countryside: rural to urban migration decisions in China,” American Economic Review (papers and proceedings), Vol. 89, 281-286, May 1999             

Journal Papers (Domestic)       

Ÿ赵耀辉、杨翠红、李善同、左学金、钟甫宁、方新、王丰、张俊森、李树茁、刘善事、仕、李海峥、方汉明、张维、李磊、刘琴，“人口结构变化与社会经济发展”，管理科学学报，24（8），115-124，2021-08

Ÿ陈欣欣、陈燕凤、龚金泉、贾 媛、孟琴琴、王格玮、王亚峰、颜 力、杨 鹏、赵耀辉，“我国农村养老面临的挑战和养老服务存在的突出问题” 中国农业大学学报(社会科学版)，第38卷4期，2021年8月，64-77页

Ÿ郑秉文、董克用、赵耀辉、房连泉、朱俊生、张冰子、蒙克、贾珅，“养老金改革的前景、挑战与对策”《国际经济评论》，9-31页，2021年第四期

Ÿ李晓华、赵耀辉，”为什么年轻人工资上涨得这么快？——对90年代中国城镇工资结构变动的解释, 《劳动经济研究》04:31-51, 2015.

Ÿ李晓华、赵耀辉，“工资差距和垄断租金”《劳动经济研究》2014，第2卷第4期，68-84

Ÿ雷晓燕、许文健、赵耀辉，“高攀的婚姻更令人满意吗？婚姻匹配模式及其长远影响“ 《经济学季刊》，2014, 第14卷，第1期

Ÿ林莞娟、赵耀辉“‘重男轻女‘降低女性福利吗？离婚与抚养压力“《经济学季刊》，2014, 第14卷，第1期

Ÿ张川川    John Giles    赵耀辉，“新型农村社会养老保险政策效果评估-——收入、贫困、消费、主观福利和劳动供给” 《经济学季刊》2014, 第14卷，第1期

Ÿ张川川、赵耀辉：《老年人就业和年轻人就业的关系：来自中国的经验证据》，《世界经济》2014年第5期第74-90页

Ÿ李琴、雷晓燕、赵耀辉，“健康对中国中老年人劳动供给的影响”，《经济学季刊》，2014, 第13卷，第4期，917-938

Ÿ雷晓燕、谭力、赵耀辉，“退休会影响健康吗？” 《经济学（季刊）》, 2010，第9卷，第4期: 1539-1558

Ÿ赵耀辉，1997，《中国农村劳动力流动及教育在其中的作用》，《经济研究》第2期，37-42.

ŸChinese Academic Papers 

Ÿ王格玮、赵耀辉，“我国中老年劳动者就业状况、问题及建议——基于CHARLS调查分析，”载中国劳动和社会保障科学研究院 莫荣、陈云、熊颖编《中国就业发展报告（2021）》，第B5章，67-86页，社会科学文献出版社，2021

Ÿ赵耀辉、张泉、王梅，“中国人离世的相关问题”，收于《中国缓和医疗发展蓝皮书》，陈小鲁、罗峪平主编，中国医药科技出版社，35-58页，2020年11月

Ÿ赵耀辉、王亚峰、张川川、田萌，“中国城乡人口迁移流动的规律和最新趋势—2010年第六次人口普查数据分析”收于《发展中的中国人口：2010年全国人口普查研究课题论文集》，国务院人口普查办公室、国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司编辑，830-856页，中国统计出版社，2014年4月

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

1.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Emergency Project, 72441013, Research on the Synergistic Model and Policy Design of the Three Pillars of the Pension System, November 2024 - October 2025, 300,000 RMB, PI.

2.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): 72061137005, Research on the Impact of Lifestyle on Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in the Elderly: Based on Comparable Health and Retirement Tracking Surveys in China and the UK, May 2020 - April 2023, 2.5 million RMB, PI.

3.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): 71450001, Peking University Management Science Data Center Project, January 2015 - December 2019, 60 million RMB, Completed, Participant (PI: Li Qiang).

4.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project: 71130002, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), January 2012 - December 2016, 5 million RMB, Completed, PI.

5.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major International Cooperation Research Project: 70910107022, Research on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health among Urban and Rural Residents in China, January 2010 - December 2012, 1 million RMB, Completed, PI.

6.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Project: 70773002, Pilot Survey for the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), January 2008 - December 2010, 240,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

7.Joint Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council: 70131160745, Economic Reform in China and the Transformation of the Urban Labor Market, January 2002 - December 2004, 250,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

Corporate-funded grants

1.China International Capital Corporation (CICC) Commissioned Project: Research on Risk Preferences and Future Orientation of Middle-aged and Elderly Individuals in China, 2023.1.31-2023.5.31, 300,000 RMB, PI.

2.National Health Commission Population and Family Department: Study on Fertility Penalty and Female Employment in China, 2022.9.19-2022.12.31, 80,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

3.National Health Commission Department of Aging: Comprehensive Benefit Analysis of Delaying Disability, 2020.5-2020.12, Completed, PI.

4.China Research Center on Aging: Sampling Design for the Fifth Sampling Survey on the Living Conditions of Urban and Rural Elderly in China, 2019.12-2020.3, Completed, Principal Investigator.

5.China National Committee on Aging: Questionnaire Design for the Fifth Sampling Survey on the Living Conditions of Urban and Rural Elderly in China, 2019.12-2020.3, Completed, PI.

6.National Health and Family Planning Commission Department of Grassroots Guidance: The Impact of Aging on Economic Growth—Based on Retirement Age, 2018.6-2018.11, 70,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

7.National Health and Family Planning Commission Department of Grassroots Guidance: Factors Influencing China’s Birth Rate and Future Trends, 2018.6-2018.11, 80,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

8.Peking University Management Science Data Center Think Tank Research Project (2015KEY04): Policy Research on Implementing Healthy Aging, 2016.4-2017.4, 200,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

9.National Bureau of Statistics: Commissioned Project for the 2015 National 1% Population Sampling Survey, 2016.5-2016.12, 45,000 RMB, Completed, PI.

10.Major Project of the Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (12JJD790045): High School Enrollment Decisions and Uncertainty in Educational Returns, 2012.1.1-2015.12.31, 200,000 RMB, Completed ，PI.

International collaborative grants

1.NIH 2R01AG037031-10 06/15/2020 – 04/30/2025, $5,333,930, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal study，Completed ，PI

2.NIH 7R01AG067625-02 9/15/2020-5/31/2025 4.0 calendar, NIH/NIA (PI: James Smith/John Strauss) $1,982,458, Influences of Early and Later Life Events on Cognition and All-Cause Dementia in China，Participant

3.NIH：2R01AG030153-17  6/01/2022-3/01/2027  NIH/NIA （PI: Jinkook Li）$19,306,489, Integrating Information about Aging Surveys: Novel Integration of Contextual Data to Study Late-Life Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and Dementia Care, Participant

4.China Medical Board:  20-364 06/01/2020-12/31/2021 1.0 calendar, $300,000, CHARLS survey on impact of COVID-19 on the Elderly，Completed ，PI

5.China Medical Board: 16-249,CMB Collaborating Program in Healthy Ageing in China，2017.1-2019.12,  $300,000, Completed ，PI

6.NIH：National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, 1R01AG-053228-01, Harmonized Cognitive and Dementia Assessment in China, 2016.9-2020.3，$1,676,295，Completed ，PI

7.NIH：National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, R01-AG037031-06A1，China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study，2015.5-2019.4，$4,791,374，Completed ，PI

8.National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, R03-AG049244-01，Archiving the CHARLS Data，2015.9-2017.5，$106,526，Completed ，PI

9.IDRC，107579-001，The care economy, women’s economic empowerment and China’s inclusive growth, 2014.1-2018.12, 479,000 CAD，Completed ，PI

10.China Medical Board，13-154,CMB Collaborating Program in Healthy Ageing in China , 2014.1-2016.12，$300,000，Completed ，PI

11.World Bank，7172961，Community, Family and Household Support for the Elderly in the Wake of Rapid Urbanization，2014.10-2015.12，100,000 CNY，Completed ，PI

12.NIH：National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health,R01-AG03037031-1，China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study，2010.5-2015.4，$4,445,758，Completed ，PI

13.NIH：National Institute of Health，Studies of health，R03-TW008358，retirement and living arrangements of the aging population in China - Initial evidence from the pilot of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) , 2009.9-2012.6, $152,250，Completed ，PI

14.NIH：National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, R21-AG031372-01，2007.9-2009.8，$274,954，Completed ，PI

AWARDS AND HONORS

ŸChangjiang Scholar (Ministry of Education), 2013

ŸNinth Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions, 2024

ŸCheng Siwei Economics Award

ŸGoogle Scholar Citations: Total citations 12,353; h-index 52; i10-index 91

ŸElsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers List: From the inception of the list in 2016 to 2023

ŸStanford University World's Top 2% Scientists Career Impact List (Ranked 68,381 in 2021, 68,863 in 2020)

ŸStanford University World's Top 2% Scientists Annual Impact List (Ranked 17,151 in 2021, 15,764 in 2020)

Ÿ The Lancet Profile: “Profile - Yaohui Zhao: dedicated to delivering healthy ageing in China,” The Lancet, November 21, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02360-1

EDITORIAL BOARDS

ŸAssociate Editor, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013 - Present

ŸAssociate Editor, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2018 - Present

MEMBERSHIPS, CERTIFICATIONS

ŸMember, International Advisory Board, Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), 2009 - Present

ŸMember, Expert Committee of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, China, 2009 - 2021

ŸMember, Expert Committee, National Academy of Sciences, Study Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Asia, 2010 - 2013

ŸSpecial Researcher, Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security, 2018 - Present

ŸMember, International Advisory Board, Health and Aging Study in South Africa, 2019 - Present

ŸMember, Advisory Expert Group on Infant and Child Care Services, National Health Commission, 2019 - Present

ŸVice Chair, Committee on Fertility and Social Support, China Population Association, 2019 - Present

ŸMember, Agenda Committee, Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity Initiative, National Academy of Medicine, USA, 2019 - 2020

ŸMember, Expert Committee on Creating a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, National Academy of Medicine, USA, 2021 - 2022

ŸMember, Agenda Committee, Conference on Population Aging and Social Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2023 - 2024

ŸVice President, Chinese Association of Comparative Economic Studies, 2023 - Present

ŸVice President, Chinese Association of Labor Economics, 2023 - Present