Published Papers:


"Skewed Aspirations: The Impact of Economic Inequality within the Classroom on Students' Academic Performance" (with Xiqian Cai and Zhengquan Cheng), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Sep 2025), Vol. 237.

"The Lasting Impact of the Tuskegee Study: COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitation among African Americans" (with Zhuo Chen, Xiaolong Hou, and Leilei Shen), Journal of Population Economics (March 2024), Vol. 37.

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"Melting Pot or Salad Bowl: Cultural Effects on Industrial Integration during Trade Liberalization" (with Yuyun Liu and Leilei Shen), Journal of Comparative Economics (March 2023), Vol. 51.

"Trump’s effect on the Chinese stock market" (with Shijun Guo and Zhiwei Xu), Journal of Asian Economics (Feb. 2021), Vol. 72. 

"Surplus Men and Scarce Women - the Impact of Mating Competition on the Desire for Sons in China" (with Zhiqiang Dong, Alhaj-Yaseen Yaseen, and Yuejun Zhong), Pacific Economic Review (Oct. 2020). 

"Promoting or Preventing Labor Mobility? Revisiting the Role of Language" (with Yuyun Liu and Xianxiang Xu), China Economic Review (April 2020), Vol. 60. 

"Language Skills and Migrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China" (with Xiahai Wei and Glenn Growe), Small Business Economics (Oct. 2019), Vol. 53. 

"Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China" (with Xiahai Wei and Tao Fang), Journal of Labor Research (April 2019), Vol. 40. 

"Speak Out Your Risk: Effects of Dialect on Merger Decisions" (with Xi Rao, Shijun Guo, and Alhaj-Yaseen Yaseen), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (June 2018), Vol. 49. 

“Re-examine the Economic Return of Language Proficiency Using Matched Employer-Employee Data" (with Xiahai Wei), The China Economic Quarterly, (2018) (Top 5 Economics Journals in Chinese).


"Parental Time Allocation and Gender Disparities: The Role of Child Tax Credit Reform" (with Tennecia Dacass and Elif Dilden), AEA Papers and Proceedings (May 2025), Vol. 115.

"Academic Profile of Chinese Economists: Productivity, Pay, Time Use, Gender Differences, and Impacts of COVID-19" (with Zhuo Chen and Li Qi), China Economic Review (Oct. 2023), Vol. 81.

"Too hot or too cold to study? The effect of temperature on student time allocation" (with Xiaohan Zhang, and Ivan Alberto), Economics of Education Review (Oct. 2021), Vol. 84.

Media Coverage: Times Higher Education

"Widening the Gap? Temperature and Time Allocation between Men and Women" (with Yixuan Li, and Mengdi Liu), Applied Economics (Oct. 2020), Vol. 53. 


"Does Medical Training of Local Health Department Executives Lead to Higher COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake and Slower Case Growth?" (with Xiaolong Hou, Zhuo Chen, Xiangming Fang, and M. Mahmud Khan), forthcoming, Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.

"A Model of Terrorism and Counterterrorism with Location Choices" (with Zijun Luo), Public Choice (Oct. 2018), Vol. 53.