Publications and Book Chapters:
"A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning," Forthcoming Journal of Political Economy (with James Heckman) (Paper Link)
"The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills," Forthcoming Journal of Labor Economics (with James Heckman, Bei Liu, and Mai Lu) (Paper Link) (Appendix) (Previously circulated under the title "Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program" NBER/IZA Working Paper) (Voxeu)
"Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale," Journal of Econometrics (with Salvador Navarro) (Paper Link) (Appendix), 2024, March
"Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program" Pediatrics (with James Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Susan Chang, and Sally Grantham-McGregor), NBER/BFI Working Paper, 2023, May (Paper Link) Voxeu
"Learning Payoff: Developing rural China's human capital will help reduce inequality," (with James Heckman) (Media: China Daily), 2022, May
"Tests of Early Childhood Skill Learning Patterns," Journal of Community Psychology (with James Heckman, Fuyao Wang, and Bei Liu) (Paper Link), 2022, March
"The Economics of Child Development with an Application to Home Visiting at Scale," Handbook "The Scale-up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy" (with Alison Baulos, James Heckman, and Bei Liu) (Working paper version), 2021
"Identifying Agent's Information Sets: an Application to a Lifecycle Model of Schooling, Consumption and Labor Supply," (with Salvador Navarro) Review of Economic Dynamics, 25, 2017 (Paper Link)
Working Papers:
"Measuring Knowledge and Learning," under revision (with James Heckman), NBER/IZA/BFI Working Paper (Paper Link) (Appendix)
"Social Networks as Investment: Rural-Urban Migration in China," under revision (Paper Link)
"Dynamic Complementarity and Autogenesis," 2nd round Revised and resubmitted American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with James Heckman, Haihan Tian, and Zijian Zhang)
"Anatomy of Treatment Effect" with James Heckman, Haihan Tian, and Zijian Zhang
Work in Progress:
"New Horizons in Quantifying Dynamic Comeplementarity," (with Xiaohong Chen, and Kang Zhou)
"The Mechanism of Skill Formation with Multiple Skill Evolution," (with James Heckman)
"The Mechanism of Long-Term Effects: Learning from China REACH Follow-up," (with James Heckman and Zijian Zhang)
"Income Assimilation for Rural Migrants in China," (with Fanmei Xia)
"STEM Workers and Regional Growth," (with Qi Li)
Project
Jointly leads the research of the China REACH project (China REACH Project)
Jointly leads the project with Peking University on the early childhood intervention in urban China