Jinxian Wang is assistant professor at the department of Economics.

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Education

• PhD thesis (2016): 'Trends in social assistance, minimum income benefits and income polarization in an international perspective', Leiden University, public defense 15 September 2016
• Master of Economics: Central University of Finance and Economics, Major in Public Finance (2010-2012)
• Bachelor of Economics: Qingdao Technological University, Major in Economics (2006-2010)

Visiting Scholar

• Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, Antwerp University, October to November, 2014 (Funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2013-2017) under grant agreement n°312691, InGRID – Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion.)

Winter Schools and Summer Schools

• Essex summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, Essex University, Essex, the United Kingdom August 2014
• Winter Schools and Summer Schools funded by InGRID
• InGRID summer school: Advanced Poverty Research: Poverty and material deprivation dynamics, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Esch-sure-Alzette, Luxembourg, July 2015 
• InGRID summer school: The gender gap revisited, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2014
• InGRID winter school: Using EUROMOD, winter school in cross country microsimulation, Essex University, Essex, the United Kingdom, February 2014
• InGRID winter school: New skills and occupations in Europe: challenges and opportunities, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium, November 2013

Awards

• Excellent Graduate of Shangdong Province (2010)
• The National Encouragement Scholarship (2007, 2009) 
• Zong Zhuozhang Scholarship (2008)

Datasets

• Leiden LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Relative Income Poverty Rates (2019)
• Leiden LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (2017)
• Social Assistance and Minimum Income Levels and Replacement Rates Dataset

Recent presentations / themes 

• At risk of poverty rates and poverty alleviation via T/B-systems in 49 LIS-countries 1967-2016 pdf
• Income inequality and income redistribution in 20 countries over time pdf; update in 47 countries over time (1967-2014) pdf

Publications