Selected Publications
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss (with Wei Huang and Yi Zhou), forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics.
Setting Local Economic Growth Targets: Does it Mitigate Nationwide Policy Uncertainty? (with Hao Yang, and Jing Ma), 2024, Regional Studies.
Teacher Characteristics and Student Performance: Evidence from Random Teacher-Student Assignments in China (with Wei Huang, Teng Li, and Jinyang Ren), 2023, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Acquiring Land in Cold Winter: Consequences and Possible Explanations (with Yu Qin, Fan Zhang, and Hongjia Zhu), 2022, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Working Papers
Human Capital Accumulation
The hidden cost of prenatal heat stress exposure: Evidence on subjective well-being in China (with Jiaowei Gong, Xiaoyu Li and Yang Zhang), revision requested at Economic Development and Cultural Change.
The Power of Disease Control: Evidence from Campaigns Against Measles, Malaria, and Meningitis in China (with Fan He, and Wei Huang).
Household Economic Decisions
Extrapolative Beliefs and Financial Decisions: Causal Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing (with Li An, and Yu Qin), under review.
Monetary Restraint and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption (with Ying Fan), under review.
How Does Household Consumption Respond to Pension Increases? Evidence from Monthly Panel Data in Urban China (with Mi Luo, Wei Huang, and Hong Song).