Research
Research Interests
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
Publications:
1. Updating Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from SAT Score Shocks and College Applications (with Timothy N. Bond, George Bulman, and Jonathan Smith) at Journal of Labor Economics. 2018. Volume 36, Issue 3
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2. Multidimensional Skills and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence from an Interactive Fixed Effects Approach and a Linked Survey-Administrative Dataset (with Mohitosh Kejriwal and Evan Totty) at Journal of Applied Econometrics . 2020. Volume 35, Issue 5
3. Weather and high-stakes exam performance: Evidence from student-level administrative data in Brazil (with Pankaj C. Patel) at Economics Letters, 2021. Volume 199, 109698
4. The Efficacy of Ability Proxies for Estimating the Returns to Schooling: A Factor Model-Based Evaluation (with Mohitosh Kejriwal, Linh Nguyen, and Evan Totty) forthcoming. at Journal of Applied Econometrics
5. The Ends Against the Middle: The Case of Municipal Golf (with Catherine Kenny, Wen Mao, and Peter Zaleski) at Public Finance Review, 2023. Volume 51, Issue 3
Working Papers:
1. Major Complexity Index and College Skill Production (with Sebastian Linde, and Hajime Shimao) [GitHub: Complexity Index Package] [Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Human Resources]
2. Cost of research and education activities in US colleges - complementarity, scalability, and heterogeneous efficiency (with Hajime Shimao, Michael Holton Price, and Chris Kempes) [submitted]
3. UnivProd: A university production dataset (with Michael Holton Price, Hajime Shimao, Diogo Martins, Chris Kempes, Deryc Painter, Geoffrey West) [submitted]
4. Female CEO Selection: Does the Glass Cliff Exist? (with Olivia Moyer, Olivia Pfeiffer, Raisa Velthuis, and Peter Zaleski) [Revise & Resubmit]
To collaborate or discuss my recent work, please contact me at xiaoxiao.s.li@villanova.edu.
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