Tracy Xu
Postdoctoral Fritz Family Fellow
Tracy Xu is a Postdoctoral Fritz Family Fellow at the Knight-Georgetown Institute. She studies how institutional rules and infrastructures – from migration systems to digital platforms –shape who can build and use skills, and how those choices scale into productivity and regional development. Methodologically, she combines structural spatial-equilibrium models with applied microeconometrics to inform platform governance, competition policy, and public-interest policy.
Her job-market paper on China’s hukou system received Georgetown’s Razin Prize, and she has collaborated with the World Bank on digital-skills and labor-market projects.
She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University, her M.A. in International Development Economics from Georgetown University, and her B.A. in International Relations from Renmin University of China.