Rachel Ngai is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics (CfM). She is also a Theme Leader for Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG).

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.

Rachel Ngai's website

She will present a paper, joint with Ting Chen, Jiajia Gu, and Jin Wang, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

 Sowing Seeds of Mobility: The Uneven Impact of Land Reform (read paper)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Rohan KEKRE (Chicago Booth) on November 3rd.