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Education

• • Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012

  • M.S., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006

  • M.E., B.E., Automation, Tsinghua University, China, 2003

Publication

• • The Effect of Compulsory Education on Retirement Financial Outcomes: Evidence from China (September 2021. accepted at Scandinavian Journal of Economics)

with Bingzheng Chen & Peiyun Deng

• • Threshold Regression With A Threshold Boundary (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021, Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 953-971)

with Ping Yu

• • Job Hopping and Adverse Selection in the Labor Market (Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2020, Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 84-138)

with Jed DeVaro (media: Sydney Morning Herald)

• • Preparing for population ageing: Estimating the cost of formal aged care in China (Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, Volume 17)

with Hong Mi, Bei Lu, Liming Cai & John Piggott

• • Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults (Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 128, No. 610, pp. 1047-1094)

with Loretti Dobrescu, Hazel Bateman, Ben Newell, Andreas Ortmann & Susan Thorp

Working Papers

• • Regional Policy Spillovers and Complementarity in the Great Lockdown (April 2021)

with Chao He & Jingnan Liu

• • The Paradox of Search Effort and Rational Labor Stampedes (April 2020)

with Chao He

• • Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement (Nov 2019. revised and resubmitted at Journal of Political Economy)

with Ananth Seshadri & Christopher Taber

• • Parental Employment, Absence and Children's Educational Gender Gap (new version coming soon)

with Hanming Fang & Simen Markussen

An earlier version of this paper was circulated under the title: Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap (May 2015)

NBER Working Paper No. 21183

Media: Sydney Morning Herald, ABC RN/Life Matters

• • Retiring Cold Turkey (August 2015)

Works in Progress

• • Why a College Educated Spouse Brings Healthy Life

with Elena Capatina

• • Female Labor Supply, Fertility, and Human Capital

with Christopher Taber

Teaching Experience

• • Monash University

    • Intermediate Microeconomics (ECC2000), 2017--2021.

  • University of New South Wales

    • Mathematical Economics (ECON 3202/5402), 2016.