Research

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)

WORKING PAPERS:

1. Should Governments Promote or Restrain Urbanization? A Quantitative Analysis of the Internal Migration Restrictions in China (previously titled The Welfare Implications of Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China),  (joint with Wenbin Wu), submitted. (PDF) 

(Honorable Mention of the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society, 2020)

2. Investor Origin and Deforestation: Evidence from Global Mining Sites, (joint with Ran Goldblatt and Victoria Wenxin Xie), R& R at Review of Economics and Statistics. (PDF)

3. Do Resource Rents Drive Urbanization and Structural Transformation? A Global Analysis,  (joint with Qing Huang and Victoria Wenxin Xie), submitted. (PDF)

4. The Agricultural and Economic Impacts of Massive Water Diversion, (joint with Guangbo Huang, Chong Liu, Tianyang Xi, and Huayu Xu), submitted. (PDF)

5. Does Agricultural Endowment Impede Structural Transformation?---An Empirical Examination, (joint with Justin Yifu Lin and Haochen Zhang). (PDF)

6. 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)

7. 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)