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OU Dongshu

Associate Professor

OU Dongshu

BA(Sun Yat-sen University), MA, MPhil, PhD(Columbia)

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B.A. (Sun Yat-sen University), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.(Columbia University). Dr. Ou specializes in economics of education. Previously she has been visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (2016/7). She is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, a member of the Economics Steering Group of Worldwide Universities Network, the Global China Research Programme at CUHK, and Faculty Affiliate at the Research Centre on Migration and Mobility. Her two core areas of interest are the impact and consequences of educational reforms, and the interactions of human capital and immigrant integration. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Lingnan Foundation and the Worldwide Universities Network. She has extensive research and consultancy experience on educational policy for major organizations including Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and New Visions for Public Schools. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on educational policy, education and development and educational finance.

Research Interests
  • Economics of Education
  • Education Policy
Courses Taught
Recent Publications
  • Ou Dongshu. 2016. “The Universal Provision of Primary Education: Who Benefits?” Education Economic, 24(5), 511-535.
  • Ou Dongshu. 2015. “Immigrants and Earnings Inequality Across Gender: Evidence from Hong Kong.” Journal of Asian Public Policy, 8(3) (lead article), 245-275.
  • David Post, Pong Suet-ling and Ou Dongshu. 2015. “One Country Two Peoples? Trends in the Assimilation and Separation of Hong Kong’s Mainland-born Population.” Asian Population Studies, 11(1), 67-93.
  • Pong Suet-ling, David Post, Ou Dongshu and Maggie S. Y. Fok. 2014. “Blurring Boundaries? Immigration and Exogamous Marriages in Hong Kong.” Population and Development Review, 40(4), 629-652.
  • Ou Dongshu. 2013. “Education for All: Quasi-experimental Estimates of the Impacts of Compulsory Primary Education in Hong Kong.” Asia Pacific Education Review, 14(3) (lead article), 267-283.