Yantong Zhao received her PhD from the Department of Economics at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests include labour economics and population economics. She received an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Finance with Distinction from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2012, and a Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2014. She subsequently joined Jining University, where she is a lecturer in the School of Economics and Management.