Mr Guanpeng Dong

Research summary

For a prolonged period, the Chinese state had monopolized housing provision, and people had virtually no choice of housing. Much has changed with the deepening of market-oriented housing reform and urban land reform since 1988. A housing market, though not full-fledged one, has been established. People have more freedom to choose their houses and adjust their housing consumption in accordance with their preferences and budgets. In this context, I am trying to build up a synthetic framework especially in terms of methodology to investigate the determinants and mechanisms of housing choices, residential mobility and neighbourhood satisfaction to understand the transitional ...

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Biography

My principle supervisor is Dr Richard Harris, with Prof. Frank Windmeijer as my second supervisor.

I am funded by the ESRC through the Advanced Quantitative Methods pathway of the SWDTC.

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