Rachel Ngai is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a member of Centre for Macroeconomics (CfM). She is also a Theme Leader for Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG). She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from HKUST and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania.
Her research interests span the theory of economic growth, labour markets and housing markets, with focus on the structural transformation, time allocation across skills, gender and across countries, fluctuations in the housing market in the presence of search frictions and more recently on Hukou system and labour misallocation in China.
STEG Policy Brief
PB003 Unblocking the Road to Women’s Market Work
STEG Synthesis Paper
PP10 Home Production, Women’s Market Work, and Structural Transformation

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Housing and inequality: A critical link in economic disparities
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- Poverty and Income Inequality

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Gendered change: 150 years of transformation in US hours
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- Economic history 
- Gender 
- Labour Markets

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The effects of transaction taxes on housing markets
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- Taxation

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Female time use and structural transformation in Africa
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- Development 
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Taxes and market hours: The role of gender and skill
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- Gender 
- Labour Markets 
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