Research

Journal Articles:

1. Health, Health Insurance, and Inequality, (with Zhigang Feng and Jiaying Gu) 

International Economic Review, February 2025, Vol. 66(1): 107-141.

[Paper (Open Access)] [Replication Package]

2. Family Migration and Structural Transformation, (with Huoqing Cao, Xican Xi, and Sharon Xuejing Zuo) 

Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2024, Vol. 57(3): 753-776.

[Paper (Open Access)] [Replication Package]

3. Land Security and Mobility Frictions, (with Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Diego Restuccia, and Xiaoyun Wei) 

Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2024, Vol. 139(3): 1941-1987.

[Paper (Open Access)] [NBER Working Paper] [VoxDev Summary] [Replication Package]

4. Finance, Managerial Inputs, and Misallocation, (with Ashique Habib and Xiaodong Zhu) 

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2023, Vol. 5(3): 409-26.

[Working Paper] [Replication Package]

5. Land Misallocation and Productivity, (with Diego Restuccia and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis) 

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2023, Vol. 15(2): 441-65.

[Working Paper] [NBER Working Paper] [Replication Package] [Stone Econ Summary]

6. The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity, (with Diego Restuccia and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis) 

Review of Economic Dynamics, July 2022, Vol. 45: 41-54. 

[Working Paper] [NBER Working Paper] [Code] [Online Appendix]

7. Capital-Skill Complementarity, Sectoral Labor Productivity, and Structural Transformation, 

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2020, Vol. 116: 103902. 

[Working Paper] [Online Appendix] [Code]

8. Technology Adoption, Capital Deepening, and International Productivity Differences, 

Journal of Development Economics, March 2020, Vol. 143: 102388. 

[Working Paper] [Data] [Code]

9. Untitled Land, Occupational Choice, and Agricultural Productivity, 

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2017, Vol. 9(4): 91-121. 

[Paper] [Code]

Papers under Submission:

1. Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change, February 2025 (with Huoqing Cao and Xican Xi)

    [Working Paper]

Work in Progress:

1. Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa (with Diego Restuccia)

2. Food Security Risk and Structural Transformation (with Trevor Tombe and Xiaodong Zhu)

3. Labor Force Participation and Structural Change (with Loren Brandt and Xiaoyun Wei)