"Fiscal Capacity and Capital Misallocation: the Economic Costs of Tax Evasion" (with Yu Liu), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics.
"Housing Booms and Local Capital Misallocation" (with Yu Liu and Peng Zhao), Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Banking and Finance.
"Risk Sharing and Temporary Migration: The Information Role of Kinship Networks," Current version: December 2024.
"State Capacity and Economic Development under Capital Mobility: Evidence from China" (with Yu Liu), Current version: April 2017 (under major rewriting).
“Land Use Supervision and Environmental Pollution: Multitasking Bureaucrats and Spillovers across Regulations” (with Haichao Fan, Guanchun Liu, and Huanhuan Wang), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 41(2), July 2025, 402-454.
Link to published version.
“Trade-Linked Pandemic, Enforcement Gap, and Pollution” (with Huanhuan Wang and Zhiqiang Zhang), China Economic Review, Vol. 91, June 2025, 102402.
Link to published version.
“Land and Labor Allocation under Communal Tenure: Theory and Evidence from China," Journal of Development Economics, Vol.147, November 2020, 102526.
Link to published version; Longer Working Paper Version (2019).
Previous title: "To Reallocate or Not? Optimal Land Institutions under Communal Tenure: Evidence from China."
"Export to Elude" (with Haichao Fan, Yu Liu and Larry Qiu), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 127, November 2020, 103366.
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"Political Connection, Corporate Philanthropy and Efficiency: Evidence from China's Anti-Corruption Campaign" (with Zhuoqun Hao, Yu Liu, and Jinfan Zhang), Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(3), September 2020, 688-708.
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“Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China ” (with Lashmi Iyer, Xin Meng and Nancy Qian), Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(3), September 2019, 579-600.
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“Do Kinship Networks Strengthen Private Property Rights? Evidence from Rural China” (with Taisu Zhang), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 11(3), September 2014, 505-540.
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“Technology and Human Development” (with Gustav Ranis), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 14(4), July 2013, 467-482.
Link to published version.