Shu Cai is an Associate Professor in Economics of the Institute for Economic and Social Research at Jinan University (Guangzhou, China). His research areas include Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconomics, with particular interests on investigating migration, poverty alleviation, and subjective well-being. He is currently working on projects to evaluate a government-led microcredit program in poor rural areas of China based on a randomized controlled trial.