Research

Labor Economics

Specific Interests: Wage Structure, Decomposition of Wage Distribution Function, Wage Inequality, Gender Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Migration, Publication in Economics Profession

Working Papers:

1. Quality vs Quantity: What Does Matter More for Tenure in Economics? with Zexuan Liu

2. A Study on Long-Run Substitutability Between Men and Women

3. Does Coauthorship Help Junior Faculty to Publish in Top Economics Journals? with Zexuan Liu

4. Coauthorship and the Gender Gap in Top Economics Journal Publications with Zexuan Liu

Econometrics

Specific Interests: Linear and Non-Linear Quantile Regression, Unconditional Quantile Regression, Non Parametric Quantile Regression, Panel Data Quantile Regression, Spatial Quantile Regression, Panel Data, Non-parametrics

Working Papers:

1. Box-Cox Unconditional Quantile Regressions

2. Partial Distributional Policy Effects Under Endogeneity with Badi H. Baltagi (Revise and Resubmit)

3. Heterogeneous Enodogeneity with Jaeho Kim and Kevin Grier (Revise and Resubmit)

4. Implementing Unconditional Quantile Regressions Under Endogeneity

Economics of Crime

Specific Interests: Crime and incarceration due to wage inequality, poverty and racial discrimination

Working Papers:

1. Do State Minimum Wages Affect Incarceration Rate? with Gary Hoover

2. Incarceration and Inequality: The Two Sides of a Same Coin with Zexuan Liu

3. The Society's Price of Income Inequality through Crime with Zexuan Liu

Development Economics

Working Papers:

1. Does Motherhood Timing Affect the Duration of Breastfeeding? Evidence from Egypt with Zexuan Liu

2. The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Family Structure