Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UNC Chapel Hill, 2018 - present

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2018

M.A., Economics, Peking University, 2012

B.A., Economics, Peking University, 2010

Working Papers

• 1. Physician Learning and Treatment Choices: Evidence from Brain Aneurysms. Under review.

  2. Retention Effects of Employee Stock Options: Evidence from Bunching at Vesting Dates, with Hong Zhang and Li-An Zhou. Revise and resubmit, Economic Development and Cultural Change

  3. Ex Post Moral Hazard in Automobile Insurance Markets with Experience Rating. 

  4. Gender Composition in the Work Environment and Physician Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, with Xiaochu Hu. Under review, Human Resources for Health.

  5. Financial Incentives and Inpatient Care: Evidence from a Randomized Physician Remuneration Reform, with Li Li and Xin Zhao. New draft coming soon.

  6. Physician Discrimination Against Medicare Patients ACA Insurance Expansion and Medicare Physician Access, with Min He, Lin Lin, and Bo Wang. New draft coming soon.

Publications

• 1. Detecting Potential Overbilling in Medicare Reimbursement via Hours Worked, with Hanming Fang. American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2). Online Appendix

Detecting Potential Overbilling in Medicare Reimbursement via Hours Worked: Reply, with Hanming Fang. American Economic Review, 2020, 110(12).  Online Appendix

• 2. Polluting Thy Neighbor: Unintended Consequences of China's Pollution Reduction Mandates, with Hongbin Cai and Yuyu Chen. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 76(3)

Work in Progress

1. "Sorting, Upcoding, and the Elusive Learning Curve: The Case of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts,” with Hanming Fang

2. "Physician Learning and Experimentation Under Uncertainty: Evidence from the Early Months of COVID-19," with Xin Zhao

3. “Medical debt and access to hospital care,” with Katsuhiko Nishiyama