Research

Selected Publications

The hidden cost of prenatal heat stress exposure: Evidence on subjective well-being in China (with Jiaowei Gong, Xiaoyu Li and Yang Zhang), conditionally accecpted at Economic Development and Cultural Change.

One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss (with Wei Huang and Yi Zhou), forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics.

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 Production Function

Public Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: The Lasting Effects of Disease Control in China (with Fan He, Wei Huang, and Jiao Wang), under review.

Economic Choice Function

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.

Consumption Responses to Pension Income Adjustments: Evidence from Urban China’s Monthly Panel Data (with Mi Luo, Wei Huang, and Hong Song).