Zisheng Song

I completed my doctoral degree at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2022, with my doctoral dissertation titled "Rental Housing Market in Chinese Megacities: Heterogeneity, Mobility, and Interconnectivity." As a principal participant, I contributed to the NSFC-STINT Sweden-China Mobility Project titled "The Fairness and Efficiency of the Rental Housing Market: Towards Sustainable Urban Development." Since July 2022, I have been working as a postdoc researcher on the project titled "City Change and Renewal: The Effects of Urban Interventions," funded by the Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation in Sweden. My current research interests include housing economics, urban economics, residential migration, climate risk in real estate, etc.

PUBLICATIONS (* denotes the corresponding author)

[1] Zisheng Song* and Yidong Wu (2022). Effects of residential push-pull on tenants' intention to relocate from larger megacities: Evidence from a Beijing, China survey. Habitat International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102663.

[2] Zisheng Song*(2022). The Capitalization of School Quality in Rents in the Beijing Housing Market: A Propensity Score Matching Method. Buildings.12(4): 485.https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12040485.

[3] Zisheng Song*, Mats Wilhelmsson, and Zan Yang (2022). Constructing segmented rental housing indices: Evidence from Beijing, China. Property Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-07-2021-0052.

[4] Aoyu Hou, Zisheng Song*, and Eddie Chi-Man HUI (2025). Does interstate migration alter U.S. state-level income inequality? A paired origin-destination perspective. Habitat International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103436.

[5] Haiyong Zhang, Zisheng Song*, and Zhuo Chen (2024). An Approach for Constructing Spatially Dependent Pseudo Repeat-sales Housing Price Indices in China. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-024-10161-2.

[6] Mingzhi Hu, Jun Xie, and Zisheng Song* (2025). Entrepreneurship and Local Citizenship Identification among Migrants: Evidence from China. Cities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106201.

[7] Baiying Fang, Yingkui Zhang*, Zisheng Song*, Feiyu Ren, Xiaomeng Xu, Yan Zhang (2022). Effects of enterprises' internal controls on the Total Factors Productivity (TFP): a moderating effect of economic policies' uncertainty. Journal of Data, Information. and Management. 4, 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42488-022-00073-7.

[8] Wu, Yidong, Yanbo Wu, Yalin Zhang, Xianzhu Wang, and Zisheng Song (2022). "The Effect of Building Electricity Consumption on Residents’ Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from China". Buildings. 12, no. 6: 710. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12060710.

[9] Wang, Yuan, Liping Yang, Jun Wu, Zisheng Song, and Li Shi (2022). "Mining Campus Big Data: Prediction of Career Choice Using Interpretable Machine Learning Method". Mathematics. 10, no. 8: 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10081289.

[10] Liping Yang, Yigang Zhao, Xiaxia Niu, Zisheng Song, Qingxian Gao, Jun Wu (2021). Municipal Solid Waste Forecasting in China based on Machine Learning Model. Frontiers in Energy Research. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.763977. 

SUBMITTED AND WORKING PAPERS

[1] Yidong Wu, Zhenguo Lin, and Zisheng Song* (2025). The Effect of China’s HPF program on Housing and Housing Wealth Equality. Submitted to Real Estate Economics (1st Round Review).

[2] Yidong Wu, Yanbo Wu, Yalin Zhang, and Zisheng Song* (2025). Homestead, Local Homeownership and Long-term Residence of Rural-Urban Migrants: Evidence from China. Submitted to Journal of Rural Studies (1st Round Review).

[3] Mingzhi Hu, Yingjun Du, Dingpei Hu, and Zisheng Song* (2025). Empowering Women through Digitalization: An Analysis of the Digital Economy's Effect on Gender Gaps in Employment. Submitted to China Economic Review (1st Round Review).

[4] Xiangdong Sun, Xinyi Zheng, and Zisheng Song* (2025). Public Online Attention and Firm Location Decisions: Evidence from 286 cities in China. Submitted to Land Use Policy (1st Round Review).

[5] Zisheng Song*, Mats Wilhelmsson, and Agnieszka Zalejska-Jonsson (2024). Investigating the spillover effects of neighboring housing rents on housing prices: Evidence from Beijing, China. Under Review in Urban Studies. Submitted to International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis (1st Round Review).

[6] Zisheng Song, Mats Wilhelmsson* and Björn Berggren (2024). Housing wealth, industrial structure, and business activities: evidence of Stockholm city, Sweden. Working Paper.

[7] Zisheng Song*, Olli Vigren, and Bertram Steininger (2024). The determinants of PropTech startups’ Funding: evidence from a worldwide perspective. Working Paper.

[8] Zisheng Song* and Aoyu Hou (2024). Residential mobility, housing prices, and entrepreneur. Working Paper.

[9] Li Ma, Zhaoying Li, and Zisheng Song* (2024). Influential factors on the livelihood mobility among rural households: evidence from China. Working Paper.

[10] David Westin, Jakob Öztomsuk, and Zisheng Song* (2025). Estimating the Impact of the Interest Rate on the Swedish Real Estate Market: A Profitability Analysis Spanning 2015–2024. Working Paper.

[11] Yidong Wu, Shichen Li, Honghong Gui, Shuying Zheng, and Zisheng Song* (2025). The Road to Healthy China: The Effects of Public Health Edu-cation, Medical Insurance on Migrants’ Settlement Intention. Working Paper.

[12] Zhen Yan and Zisheng Song* (2025). From Firm-Level Credit to Project-Based Lending: Pricing Power, Managerial Tone, and Credit Allocation in China's Real Estate Sector. Submitted to Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

EXPERIENCES IN TEACHING AND EDUCATION
- Supervisor:AI206X Master Degree Project in Building and Real Estate Economics (30 points, second cycle)

- Lecturer: AI2127 Management and Leadership (7.5 points, second cycle); AI2102 Real Estate Market Analysis and Development (7.5 points, second cycle)

- Guest Lecturer: AI2106 Business cycles in construction and real estate market (7.5 points, second cycle)

- Teaching Assistant:AI2156 Contract Theory with Application to Property Management (7.5 points, second cycle)

- Pedagogical Trainee: LH231V Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (7.5 points)

REFEREEING

Cities, Habitat International, Land Use Policy, Telecommunication Policy, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Buildings, Land, Growth and Change, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, International Review of Economics and Finance, Housing, Theory and Society, Housing Studies, etc.

AWARDS

    - The paper titled "An Approach for Constructing Spatially Dependent Pseudo Repeat-sales Housing Price Indices in China" awarded as the Third Prize in 2024 China Real Estate Association Annual Conference. 2024 issued by China Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and Agents (CIREA)

    - The paper titled "Does interstate migration alter U.S. state-level income inequality? A paired origin-destination perspective" awarded as the Second Prize, in the 3rd Global Chinese Urban Governance & Policy Workshop. 2025 issued by China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University