Working Papers
AI and the Creative Process: the Time-Quality Relationship and its Implications, with Jie Gong, Jin Li, and Zibo Zhao
Chen, Yvonne J., Yi Lu, and Huihua Xie, “Education and non-cognitive Skills,” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 18-05, 2018
"The Impact of Coal to Electrification Policy on Winter Diseases for Rural Households," with Li Li, Shiko Maruyama, and Peiyao Shen
“Electricity Subsidy and Clean Energy Transition,” with Lana Friesen, Andrea La Nauze, Peiyao Shen
Chen, Yvonne J., Li Li, and Yun Xiao, “The Gendered Effect of Childhood Television Exposure on Educational Aspirations.”
Journal Publications
1. Chen, Yvonne J., Deniz Dutz, Li Li, S. Moon, Edward Vytlacil and Songfa Zhong, “Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay to Decompose Beliefs and Preferences that Determine Selection into Competition in Lab Experiments,” Journal of Econometrics, Volume 243, Issues 1-2, July 2024
2. W Xun, D. Whittington, Yvonne J. Chen, and R. Zuo, “Design of Policy Research in the Era of Generative AI.” accepted, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2024
3. Chen, Yvonne J., Li Li, and Yun Xiao, “Early life exposure to tap water and the development of cognitive skills.” Journal of Human Resources, Vol 57, Nov 2022, pp 2113-2149
4. Chindarkar, Namrata, Yvonne J. Chen and Shilpa Sathe, “Impact of farm electricity supply management on farm households in Gujarat, India,” Energy Policy, Volume 141, June 2020, Article 111407
5. Chen, Yvonne J., Zhiwu Chen, and Shijun He, “Social norms and household savings rate in China.” Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2019, pp 961–991
6. Chen, Yvonne J., Namrata Chindarkar and Jane Zhao, “Water and time use – Evidence from Kathmandu, Nepal.” Water Policy, 21(S1), pp 76-100, 2019
7. Chen, Yvonne J., Namrata Chindarkar and Yun Xiao, “The effect of reliable electricity on health facilities, health information, and health services utilization: Evidence from rural Gujarat, India.” (Open Access), Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(7), 2019
8. Chindarkar, Namrata, Yvonne J. Chen and Yogendra B. Gurung, “Subjective well-being effects of coping costs: Evidence from household water supply in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.” Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2019, Volume 20, Issue 8, pp 2581–2608
9. Chen, Yvonne J., Pei Li, and Yi Lu, “Career concerns and multitasking bureaucrats: Evidence of a target-based performance evaluation system in China.” Journal of Development Economics, Vol 133, 84-101, July 2018 (ESI 1% Highly Cited)
10. Chindarkar, Namrata, Yvonne J. Chen and Dennis Wichelns, “Government-Civil society co-management contracts for rural water services: Lessons from India.” Policy Design and Practice, Vol 1, Issue 4, 2018
11. Thampapillai, Dodo J. and Yvonne J. Chen, “Environmental macroeconomics: A neglected theme in environmental economics – Leave alone economics.“ Singapore Economic Review, Sept 2018
12. Chen, Yvonne J., and Namrata Chindarkar, “The value of skills – raising the socio-economic status for rural women in India.” Development Policy Review, Vol 35(2), Jan 2017
13. Thampapillai, Dodo J., Yvonne J. Chen, Christopher I. Bacani and Faris F. Omer, “New estimates of factor income shares in central Asian economies.” Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, Vol 35(3), Sept 2016
Computer Science Conference Proceedings
14. Peiwen Jiang, Haitong Jiang, Ruhui Ma*, Yvonne Jie Chen*, Jinhua Cheng*, TST: A Schema-Based Top-Down and Dynamic-Aware Agent of Text-to-Table Tasks, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL), Main Conference, Accepted, 2025
15. P. Jiang, Z. Zhao, X. Lin, R. Ma*, YJ. Chen*, J. Cheng*, "TKGT: Redefinition and A New Way of Text-to-Table Tasks Based on Real World Demands and Knowledge Graphs Augmented LLMs."(*co-corresponding authors), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2024)
Book Chapter
16. Chindarkar, N., Yvonne J. Chen and Dennis Welchens, “Impact of State—Non-State Co-management Contracts on Water Supply in Rural India: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” in Kekez, A; Howlett, M.; and M Ramesh (eds.) Collaboration in Public Service Delivery: Promises and Pitfalls. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019