Academic Appointments      

Senior Lecturer,  2020 - Present

Department of Economics, University of Essex

Assistant Professor, 2014 - 2020

Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2015

Center of Behavioral Economics, National University of Singapore 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2014 

B.A., Economics and Statistics, Peking University, China, 2008

Research Field

Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Econometrics

Publication

“A matching model of co-residence with family network: Empirical evidence from China”, with Naijia Guo and Junsen Zhang, Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (648), 2873–2917

“Heterogeneous firm responses to increases in high-skilled workers: Evidence from China's college enrollment expansion”, with Shuaizhang Feng, China Economic Review, 2022, 73:101791

“No magic for market entry in the field: Evidence from taxi markets”, with Juin-Kuan Chong, Management Science, 2021, 68(6):4670-4684.

“Smart-Dating in Speed-Dating: How a Search Model with Horizontal and Vertical Preferences Can Explain Matching Decisions”, with Lucas Herrenbrueck, Paul Eastwick and Chin Ming Hui. European Economic Review, 2018, 106: 54-76

“Causal Inference Models in Operations Management”, with Teck-Hua Ho, Noah Lim and Sadat Reza. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017, 19(4): 509-525 

“Yellow taxis have fewer accidents than blue taxis because yellow is more visible than blue”, with Teck-Hua Ho and Juin-Kuan Chong. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1612551114

“Forming Wage Expectations through Learning: Evidence from College Major Choice”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 132, Part A, December 2016

Working Papers

"Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications”, with Kentaro Tomoeda and Yan Song

"Local Innovation through Investment in Education: Evidence from Chinese Cities", with Enrico Moretti and Kenneth Huang

Research Grant as Principal Investigator 

Early Career Scheme (ECS) from Research Grant Council in Hong Kong, 2016-2018, HK$ 360,000

General Research Fund (GRF) from Research Grant Council in Hong Kong, 2018-2020, HK$ 237,632

Direct Research Grant from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014-2019, HK$ 190,000

Conference and Presentation

RES and SES Annual Conference 2023

European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, 2022

University of Chicago, East Arc Experiment Social Science Workshop, 2021

UNSW Sydney, Univesrity of Melbourne, Lehigh Univesrity, University of York, Copenhagen Business School,  UCLouvain, IESEG, American Association Annual Meeting, 2020

Osaka University, Hong Kong Baptist University, North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Twenty-Fourth Annual Meetings of SOLE, 2019

Chinese Economists Society Annual China Conference, 2018 

The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) Conference, Tsinghua University, University of Technology Sydney, Jinan University, National University of Singapore, 2017

European Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Peking University HSBC Business School, 2016

National University of Singapore, McGill University, Fourth SOLE|EALE World Meetings, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2015

Simon Fraser University, Lingnan University, Western Economic Association International 89th Annual Conference, Quantitative Society for Pensions and Saving (QSPS) Summer Workshop, 2014

Teaching

Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions (undergraduate level) 

Introductory of Economics, Business Economics (undergraduate level)

Applied Econometrics (PhD level)

Refereeing Service

American Economic Review, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resource, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Economic Review, Education Finance and Policy, China Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, World Development