Publications:
Xu, L., Zhao, N., and Zheng, J.D. (2025) Religion, Places of Worship, and Individual Risk-taking in China International Review of Financial Analysis 104: 104250.
Li, T., Li, H, and Zheng, J.D. (2024) Promoting Cooperation in Collective Actions: Evidence from the Reserve Fund for Maintenance in China. International Review of Economics and Finance 96: 103701
Zheng, J.D., Schram, A., and Song, T. (2023) Social Status and Prosocial Behavior. Experimental Economics 26, 1085–1114.
Li, J. and Zheng, J.D. (2023) Pro-social Preferences and Risk Aversion with Different Payment Methods: Evidence from the Laboratory. International Review of Economics and Finance 87: 324-337.
Schram. A., Zheng, J.D., and Zhuravleva, T. (2022) Corruption: a Cross-Country Comparison of Contagion and Conformism. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizations 193: 497-518.
Zheng, J.D., Schram, A., and Dogan, G.. (2021) Friend or Foe? Social Ties in Bribery and Corruption. Experimental Economics 24:854–882.
Book chapters:
Digital technology, consumers and workers' decision in the era of Artificial Intelligence (数字科技和人工智能时代的消费者与劳动者) in Chinese (2025), joint with Xinwei Dong.
Microeconomics Introduction to the Digital Economy (数字经济微观导论), ISBN 978-7-5772-2086-4, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press.
Working papers:
Gamified Trading, Overtrading, and Self-Selection: A Cross-Country Replication with Real Monetary Incentives (2026), joint with Shan Jin and Xiaomeng Zhang, Revise & Resubmit at European Economic Review (OSF pre-registration 10.17605/OSF.IO/HGBQT)
In Faith We Create: Political Ideology, Religion, and Corporate Risk-taking. (2026), under review, joint with Li Xu
Correlation Neglect with Computation Aids and Iterative Mechanism in School Choice. (2026), under review, joint with Yan Song, Hao Li, and Ming Jiang.
“I” on You: Identity in the Dictator Game. (2026), joint with Anita Kopanyi-Peuker. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Know Enough or Don't Know at All: Rank Information Provision at Workplace. (2026), under review, joint with Jaesun Lee and Ming Jiang
Outsourcing Bribery. (2025), joint with Cheng-Zhong Qin and Yadi Yang
Work in progress:
Bribery in Rank-order Tournaments: Theory and Experiment, with Cheng-Zhong Qin and Yadi Yang
Leadership in Early Life: Field Evidence from China, with Hongzhong Fan and Lihua Xia. (AEARCTR-0015392)
Nudges and Money: Demand & V2G Response for Renewable Energy, with Huanxiu Guo and Zhiren Hu. (AEARCTR-0016549 & AEARCTR-0016875)
Algorithm Reliance: A Cross-Country Replication with Neuro Evidence, with Flora Li. Pre-registered at OSF (Registration DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/5ZRXH)
Non-Working papers:
Do Workers Work More if Their Wage Compares Well to That of Their Peers in the Economy? A Survey Experiment (joint with Robert Dur, and Kea Tijdens). AEA Social Science Registry for RCT www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/289
Grants:
National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC) PI (No. 72203106)
"Theoretical and experimental research on employee ranking information acquisition incentives in the context of digital enterprises" (Jan 2023 -- Dec 2025)
National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC) Co-PI (No. 72573095)
"Reform of school choice mechanism, large language model and human capital mismatch: Theoretical and empirical investigation" (Jan 2026 -- Dec 2029)