Kayee (Jiayi) Zhou

 • Majors: Political Science and Public Administration

Projects:
1) Texas Home Visiting Program - Describing Home Visiting’s Value Evaluation III: The Connection Between THV and Child Wellbeing
2) Protective and Compensatory Experience
 • Cleaned, matched, processed, and analyzed large datasets using Stata and R
 • Created analysis report based on produced results

Worked with Dr. Raissa Fabregas on the extension of The Effectiveness of Public Agricultural Extension: Evidence from Farmer Field Days in Kenya
 • Matched and merged multiple datasets and performed analysis using Stata
 • Transformed results with LaTeX, verified analytical results, and edited papers

Project: Analyze the Separation of Administration and Economic Reform among Village Committees
 • Collected and analyzed policy documents, minutes from meetings, and progress reports about the reform from local governments and village committees
 • Interviewed with leaders of village committees and residents’ committees on the reform

Project: Evaluate the Administrative Approval Reform of Local Government
 • Reviewed policy documents, minutes from meetings and implementation plans about the reform conducted by the Luogang government
 • Conducted interviews with heads of various departments in the Luogang government

Project: Assess Social Work Agencies’ Performance in Providing Elder Care Services
 • Conducted documentation reviews and observations to evaluate 5 agencies’ performances
 • Interviewed 10 leaders, 13 frontline social workers, and 20 clients on agencies’ services
 • provided constructive advice to the agencies and contributed to the evaluation report

Project: Assess Social Work Agencies’ Performance in Providing Elder Care Services
 • Conducted documentation reviews and observations to evaluate 5 agencies’ performances
 • Interviewed 10 leaders, 13 frontline social workers, and 20 clients on agencies’ services
 • Provided constructive advice to the agencies and contributed to the evaluation report

Project: Research on the Elder Care Services in Nanhai District
 • Conducted participant observation at Nursing Home at Danzao Town for 3 months
 • Implemented a survey on 700 elders over 60 years old
 • Interviewed with the staff of nursing homes and social work agencies
 • Contributed to the report with recommendations to the government by comparing China’s efforts with social welfare policies of developed countries

Project: Research on the Local Culture of the Historic Villages
 • Collected, reviewed and evaluated family documents and historical records of an ancient village in Danzao Town, such as records on the lives and kinship ties of ancestors and stories of historical architecture
 • Conducted oral history interviews with 3 villagers
 • Wrote a report on the history of the village, including stories of the village’s founders, names and historical buildings
 • Presented the results at the local culture research competition and made an exhibition at Danzao Town to introduce the hidden local culture to the public

Project: Research on the School Consolidation in China
 • Reviewed policy documents and news on the school consolidation
 • Wrote a report based on a case study on the school consolidation happened in a poverty county
 • Presented the report at the Sun Yat-sen University Public Administration Case Competition and won the 2nd prize out of 140 teams