Research

Publications and Book Chapters:

1. "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)

2. "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)

3.  "Tests of Early Childhood Skill Learning Patterns," Journal of Community Psychology (with James Heckman, Fuyao Wang, and Bei Liu) (Paper Link) 

4. "Learning Payoff: Developing rural China's human capital will help reduce inequality," (with James Heckman) (Media: China Daily)

5. "Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program"  Accepted at Pediatrics  (with James Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Susan Chang, and Sally Grantham-McGregor), NBER/BFI Working Paper  (Paper Link) Voxeu

Working Papers:

1.  "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)

2. "Human Capital and Migration: a Cautionary Tale," Forthcoming at  Journal of Econometrics (with Salvador Navarro) (Paper Link) (Appendix)

3.  "Interaction as Investment: The Microdynamics and Measurement of Early Childhood Learning,"  2nd round Revised and resubmitted Journal of Political Economy (with James Heckman)  (Paper Link) 

4. "Measuring Knowledge and Learning," under revision (with James Heckman), NBER/IZA/BFI Working Paper (Paper Link) (Appendix)

5. "Social Networks as Investment: Rural-Urban Migration in China," under review (Paper Link) 

6. "Nonparametric Tests of Dynamic Complementarity," Revised and resubmitted American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with James Heckman)   

Work in Progress:

• “Modeling Choices in Multiple Price List Experiments,” (with James Heckman) 

• "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)

• "The Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions on Pressures: Evidence from Hair Cortisol Concentrations"

• "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

• Jointly leads the AI-learning project with AIRS institution on understanding the child learning mechanism