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Biography
Zhongwei Zhao graduated from University of Cambridge (PhD), University of Exeter (MA), and Peking University (BA).
Zhongwei Zhao has been a Professor at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, College of Arts and Social Sciences, the Australian National University since 2008.
Prior to taking up this appointment, he was a senior research associate at the Cambridge Group for the History of population and Social Structure, a Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, a senior fellow/fellow/research fellow at the Australian National University, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales and the East-West Centre of Hawaii, and a researcher at Peking University.
Qualifications
BA (Peking), MA (Exeter), PhD (Cambridge)
Research Interests
- Long-term population changes and demographic transition in Asia
- Chinese demography
- Environmental impacts on population health and mortality
- Computer microsimulation in demographic research
- Historical demography
- Changes in families, households and kinship networks
- Demographic estimation and mortality models
- Demographic impacts of famines
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Recent fertility changes in Mongolia: what can we learn from examining tempo-adjusted fertility?
Judger, M., Baffour, B. & Zhao, Z., 2021, In: Asian Population Studies. 17, 2, p. 162-180 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Major Socioeconomic Driving Forces of Improving Population Health in China: 1978–2018
Zhao, Z., Jia, H. & Chen, M., Dec 2020, In: Population and Development Review. 46, 4, p. 643-676 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Age patterns and sex differentials in mortality
Yu, Y. & Zhao, Z., 2018, Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography. Z. Z. A. A. C. H. (ed.). 1st edition ed. London: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 209-227Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Conclusion
Zhao, Z. & Hayes, A., 2018, Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography. Z. Z. A. A. C. H. (ed.). 1st edition ed. London: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 532-539Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Introduction
Hayes, A. & Zhao, Z., 2018, Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography. Z. Z. A. A. C. H. (ed.). 1st edition ed. London: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 1-14Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Projects
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Environment impact on old age mortality in East Asia since the 1970s
1/01/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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Transition and challenge: Health and Mortality in East and Southeast Asia
25/10/10 → 27/10/10
Project: Research
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Integrating Population Perspectives in Asian Environmental Debates
Hull, T. H., Hayes, A., Jones, G. W., Streatfield, P. K. & Zhao, Z.
15/05/10 → 31/12/13
Project: Research