Meihong Jia

As an economic researcher with an engineering background, Meihong is passionate about using state-of-art quantiative methods to promote poverty eradication and inequality reduction. In particular, Meihong is interested in identifying role of governments in achieving the goal of reduced inequality.   Meihong holds a master of economics and a bachelor of electronic engineering. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo. Her research explores whether mandatory savings accounts earmarked for housing consumption are a good idea for housing finance policy. She examines this question  from the perspectives of of wealth inequality, aggregate savings, and homeownership. She is also enrolled in a leading interdisciplinary learning program at The University of Tokyo, where she is leading a project on innovation in banking sectors to help deal with home credit default and its social and legal implications.