Research
Selected Working Papers
"Homelessness" (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu)
December 2022. Submitted
"How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality?" (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Karen Kopecky)
February 2024. Revised and resubmitted at Review of Economic Studies
"Houses Divided: Intergenerational Transfers, Differential Fertility and Wealth Inequality". (with Aaron Cooke, Umesh Ghimire and Hyun Lee)
January 2022. R&R
Publications
"Deregulation as a Source of China's Economic Growth". (with Tianxu Chen, Shiyuan Pan and Kai Xu)
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, 28(3): 745-755.
"Population Aging, Health Care, and the Macroeconomy: An Introduction", (with Kevin X. D. Huang)
International Studies of Economics, 2024, Volume 19(1).
"Rising Wealth Inequality: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurship, and the Decline in Interest Rate" (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu)
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 127, April 2022, Pages 86-104.
"The Evolution of Health over the Life Cycle" (with Roozbeh Hosseini and Karen Kopecky)
Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 45, July 2022, Pages 237-263.
“Does the early retirement policy really benefit women?” (with Hyun Lee and Fei Zou)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 196, April 2022, Pages 330-345.
“Household Saving, Financial Constraints, and the Current Account in China”. (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu),
International Economic Review, Volume 61, Issue 1, February 2020.
"The Chinese Saving Rate: Long-Term Care Risks, Family Insurance, and Demographics” (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu),
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 96, June 2018.
Discussion in VoxChina
“Employment-based Health Insurance and Aggregate Labor Supply”. (with Zhigang Feng),
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 154, October 2018.
"Intergenerational Transfers and China’s Social Security Reform" (with Ayse İmrohoroğlu),
Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 11, May 2018.
(Special issue on “Macroeconomics and Aging,” edited by Juan Carlos Conesa and Tim Kehoe)
"Social Insurance, Private Health Insurance and Individual Welfare",
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 78, May 2017.
"Health Spending and Public Pension: Evidence from Panel Data" (with Yonghong An and Rong Zhou),
Applied Economics, Volume 48, Issue 11, 2016.
European Economic Review, Volume 75, April 2015.
Discussion in NEP-DGE Blog
"Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending",
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 64, May 2014.
Discussions in Economic Logic and LSE's USAPP Blog
"War Finance and the Baby Boom",
Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 17(3), July 2014.
"Home Production and the Welfare Cost of Labor Supply Tax Distortions" (with John Whalley),
Applied Economic Letters, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2013.
"Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution",
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2011, 11(1), Article 26.