Published and Accepted Papers:
1. Detecting the Boundaries of Urban Areas in India: A Dataset for Pixel-Based Image Classification in Google Earth Engine, (joint with Ran Goldblatt, Gordon Hanson, and Amit Khandelwal), Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(8), 634. (PDF)
2. The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13(4), pp. 285-324 (PDF)
(Runner-up of the North American Regional Science Council Graduate Student Paper Award, 2016)
3. Labor Market and Residential Adjustment on Multiple Margins: The Role of Migration and Parental Coresidence, (joint with Sewin Chan and Katherine O’Regan), Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 53, 101760. (PDF)
4. The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China, (joint with Lei An, Yu Qin, Jing Wu), Journal of Labor Economics, 2024 Jan 1; 42(1):161-200. (PDF)
5. Should Governments Promote or Restrain Urbanization? (previously titled The Welfare Implications of Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China), (joint with Wenbin Wu), Journal of International Economics, 2025, 104084. (PDF) . Replication package.
(Honorable Mention of the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society, 2020)
6. The Agricultural and Economic Impacts of Massive Water Diversion (joint with Guangbo Huang, Chong Liu, Tianyang Xi, and Huayu Xu), Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103517. (PDF)
7. Investor Origin and Deforestation: Evidence from Global Mining Sites, (joint with Ran Goldblatt and Victoria Wenxin Xie), accepted by Review of Economics and Statistics. (PDF)
8. Keeping an Eye on the Villain: Assessing the Impact of Surveillance Cameras on Crime, (joint with Jinmei Feng, Hong Ma, and Mingzhi Xu), accepted by Journal of Development Economics. (PDF)
Working Papers:
1. The Bronx Is Burning: Urban Disinvestment Effects of the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements, (joint with Ingrid Ellen, Daniel Hartley, and Jeffrey Lin), R & R at Review of Economics and Statistics. (PDF)
2. Do Resource Rents Drive Urbanization and Structural Transformation? A Global Analysis, (joint with Qing Huang and Victoria Wenxin Xie), R & R at Journal of Development Economics. (PDF)
3. Does Agricultural Endowment Slow Down Structural Transformation?---An Empirical Examination, (joint with Justin Yifu Lin and Haochen Zhang), R & R at Journal of Economic Growth. (PDF)
4. Structural Transformation and the Urban Growth Shadows: County-Level Evidence from China, 1990–2020, (joint with Ming Gao and Enning Tang), R & R at Regional Science and Urban Economics. (PDF)
5. The Effect of a Deadly Epidemic on Firm Exports: Evidence from the 2003 SARS Outbreak, (joint with Jinyong Zhan, Hongyi Jiang, Shilin Zheng, and Zhenting Sun). (PDF)