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Anwen Zhang is an applied microeconomist with primary research interests in health and education economics, alongside secondary interests in labor and demographic economics. Her work explores how policies, institutions, and individual behaviors interact to shape health, education, and social and economic outcomes. Anwen joined the University of Glasgow in 2019, previously holding research positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Cambridge. She has been educated at Jilin University, University College London, and Lancaster University. As a member of the Applied Economics research cluster, her expertise spans Health Economics, Education Program Evaluation, and Applied Microeconomics. Anwen primarily studies policy-relevant issues related to health and education, focusing on understanding the determinants of health and educational outcomes, the effects of health education policies, and applying quasi-experimental methods to large-scale observational data. Her current research encompasses topics such as mental health determinants, school inputs and outputs in education, and the effectiveness of health policies among different demographic groups.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland
Teaching and research in Health Economics, and advising PhD students.