Starting from 2016, I have spent more than 9 years studying the social and labor market impact of the State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) reform that happened in the later 1990s in urban China. Most recently, I have four co-authored papers on this topic. All of them are developed from the second chapter of my Ph.D. Dissertation "Essays on Gender Inequality in China" (2018).
PUBLICATION
"Family Migration and Structural Transformation ", (with Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, and Xican Xi) (2024), 57(3): 753-776,
Canadian Journal of Economics, Special Issue on Misallocation and Structural Transformation, https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12725
''Cheating Amongst Youth Offenders: How Peers and Their Social Status Influence Cheating ", (with Huailu Li, and Kaiwen Leong ) (July, 2023): 1-25, Economic Inquiry, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.13168
Previously circulated under the title "Influencing Youth Offenders: How Social Status Affects Cheating in Youth Corrections"
''From Equality to Polarization: Changes in Urban China’s Gender Earnings Gap from 1988 to 2016'', (with Xueyue Liu) (2023), Vol.(205): 303-337, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268122004139?dgcid=author
''Multiple Switching and Data Quality in the Multiple Price List'', (with Y. Jane Zhang and Chi Wai Yu ) (2021), 103(1): 136-150, Review of Economics and Statistics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00895
''Measuring the Impact of Interaction between Children from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Culture on Gender Differences in Risk Aversion '', (with Elaine M. Liu) (2019),116 (14): 6713-6719, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, www.pnas.org/content/116/14/6713
Media Coverage: NPR, BBC, Newsweek, London Times, Quartz
WORKING PAPERS
"Privatization to Inequality: How China's State-Owned-Enterprise Reform Restructures the Urban Labor Market" (with Yuli Xu), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (JPE Micro)
''Gender, Competition, and Real Life Work Performance of Insurance Agents" (with Xian Xu and Ningning Yang), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Risk and Insurance
"Family Size and Child Migration: Do Daughters Face Greater Trade-offs than Sons?" (with Christine Ho and Yutao Wang), [Submitted]
"Gendered Impacts of Privatization: A Life Cycle Perspective from China", (with Yuli Xu), [Under review] [SSRN working paper]
"Privatization, Human Capital, and Intergenerational Mobility: Long-term Evidence from China", (with Jue Tang, Qiang Xie, and Yuli Xu), [Submitted] [SSRN working paper]
"Work Schedule, Occupational Choice, and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Two-Child Policy in China", (with Zhiyuan Li and Lei Wu), [Under review] [SSRN working paper]
"Roots of Bias, Seeds of Change: Can Social Environment Undo Childhood Prejudice?" (with Yanlei He and Elaine M. Liu), [Draft is preliminary]
"Status and Hierarchy: Field Evidence from Vervet Monkeys and Human Children", ( Xiu Chen, Roberta Dessi, Wei Huang, Riccardo Pansini and Xiaojian Zhao), Building on an earlier work with only monkey subjects under Reject and Resubmit at Economic Journal.
"FDI Liberalization and Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China" (with Rongping Chang and Yan Zhang) [SSRN working paper]
Accepted at the "100 Years of Economic Development Conference" (Sep.15th, 2022, Cornell University, online presentation)