Address: 5 Yiheyuan Rd, Haidian, Beijing China
Email: congpeng@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Website: www.congpeng.org

Research Interest

Urban and Development Economics: Transportation;
Urbanization in Africa;
Public Health in Developing Countries;
E-commerce;
Trade and Environmental Economics: Voluntary Carbon Market;
Application of AI and Remote Sensing in Economics.

Academic Positions

Sep 2022 - Present     National School of Development, Peking University 
                                   Assistant Professor

Oct 2019 - Aug 2022     Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 
                                       Postdoctoral Fellow      

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019     Halcoglu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego  
                                      Postdoctoral Fellow    

Oct 2019 - Present     Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics  
                                   Research Affliate    

Publication

Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities, with J. Vernon Henderson and Neeraj G. Baruah, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 29-65.

Valuing the Environmental Bene ts of Canals Using House Prices, with Steve Gibbons and Cheng Keat Tang, Land Economics, forthcoming

Urbanisation and Demographic and Health Outcomes: Perspectives from a New Classi cation of Urban Areas, with J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and Vivian Liu, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Publications Oce of the European Union, 2020

Working Papers

Roads to development? Examining the Zambian context using AI-Sat, with Wenfan Chen

Does E-commerce Reduce Trac Congestion? Evidence from Alibaba Single Day Shopping Event, CEP Discussion Paper DP1646

China's Journey to the West: Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Transportation Improvement in Central Asia, with Gordon Hanson

Growth in the African Urban Hierarchy, with Vernon Henderson and Tony Venables, CEPR Discussion Paper DP17493

Research Grant

The Socioeconomic Impact of Road Development in Zambia, International Growth Center (19,994 pounds), with Wenfan Chen

The Socioeconomic Impact of Road Development in Zambia: Phase Two, International Growth Center (12,000 pounds), with Wenfan Chen and Yulu Tang

Professional Activities

July 2019 - Sep 2019     Economics Department, Oxford University  
                                      Occasional Research Assistant

Mar 2016 - Sep 2019     Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics 
                                       Occasional Research Assistant

Aug 2014 - May 2015     Macmillan Center, Yale University  
                                        Fox International Fellow

Dec 2014 - Sep 2015     Yale Law School, Yale University  
                                       Research Assistant

Sep 2012 - Aug 2014     Public Policy Research Center, Fudan University  
                                       Research Assistant

Education

2015-2019      PhD in Economic Geography, London School of Economics

2011-2014      MA in Economics, Fudan University

2007-2011      BA in Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
                       BA in Law (double major) Wuhan University

Teaching Experience

Lent term,  2016-2018     Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics
                                         Instructor
                                         GIS workshop

Lent term, 2018     Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics 
                               Teaching assistant
                               Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis

Michaelmas term, 2017      Department of Methodology, London School of Economics 
                                            Teaching assistant
                                            Introductory to Quantitative Analysis

Academic Conferences

2022: World Bank Infra4Dev Conference; The 5th International Conference of China Development Studies

2021: 15th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

2019: 9th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association; 14th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association; 2019 SMU Conference on Urban and Regional Economics

2018: 13th Tinbergen Institute Conference on International Trade and Development; Bruneck Workshop on Political Economy; The Seventh International Conference \Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics"; AREUEA International Conference  Oxford CSAE conference

2017: International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference; 7th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association; Spatial Dimensions of the Labor Market at ZEW

Academic Referee Service

American Economic Journal; Economic Policy; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Urban Economics; Journal of Economic Geography; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Urban Studies;

Programming skills & Softwares

Python, PyTorch, Stata, ArcGIS, Matlab, R, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Unix, LATEX

Language

Profcient: English, Mandarin (native)  Basic: French, Japanese