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If you are interested in the Economics PhD program at Monash,  you may find more details here.

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 Paradox of Search Intensity (Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, Vol. 221, Page 105891)

              with Chao He

• • Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement (Journal of Political Economy, 2024, Vol. 132, No. 1, Page 48-95)

       with Ananth Seshadri & Christopher Taber

• • The Effect of Compulsory Education on Retirement Financial Outcomes: Evidence from China (Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 958-989)

              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, Page 100183)

              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

• • 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

    • Principles of Microeconomics (ECC1000), 2024--present.

    • Intermediate Microeconomics (ECC2000), 2017--2023.

  • University of New South Wales

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