Retirement and Grandchild Care of Chinese Women, with Jin Feng, Feminist Economics. 2017. 

Immigrants’ access to care under the Affordable Care Act: An examination of California , International Journal of Healthcare and Management 2019  (funding: Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs and the California Endowment research grant) 

media coverage: Access to Healthcare in Los Angeles County and Boyle Heights , Policy Brief, with Melina Monroy, The Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs Policy Series. 2017  (funding: Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs and the California Endowment research grant)

Beach Pollution Effects on Health and Productivity in California,  with Jingjing Li, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019  (funding: Cal State LA open access grant)   

     media coverage: Protections from Pollution, Policy Brief at PHP by Boston University Public Health

Trade Liberalization and Health: Evidence from China,  with Jin Feng and Qiang Xie, World Development. 2021.

Too hot or too cold to study? The effect of temperature on student time allocation, with Yang Jiao and Ivan Alberto, Economics of Education Review. 2021.  

media coverage: The Times (Higher Education Supplement)

Racial Disparities in Labor Market Response to EITC, with Yi Lu and Yang Jiao.   

Americans Vote with their Pocketbooks: Evidence from Mortgages, with Haoyang Liu, W. Ben McCartney, Rodney Ramcharan, and Calvin Zhang. Presented at the 2024 ASSA/AREUEA. 

Can Housing Compete with Financial Assets? Evidence from the Horse’s Mouth, with Andrew Haughwout and Haoyang Liu. Presented at the 2024 ASSA/AREUEA. 

Child Tax Credit and Employment, a reexamination of empirical evidence 

Are People Overconfident in Avoiding COVID?,  with Rawley Heimer, Haoyang Liu, Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,  2020

 media coverage: NY Times, Wall Street Journal

 Who Has Been Evicted and Why?,  with Andrew Haughwout, Haoyang Liu, Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2020 

cited in Testimony to House of Representatives

Do People View Housing as a Good Investment and Why?,  with Andrew Haughwout, Haoyang Liu, Dean Parker, Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2020 

media coverage: Reuters, USNews, MarketWatch

Greater Hispanic Outreach Can Improve Take-Up of Earned Income Tax Credit,  with Jason Saving, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2022  

Economy's Essential Early Care and Education Industry Recovering but Still Faces Labor Shortfall, with Anna Crockett, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2022  

Lowest-Income Workers See Accelerated Earnings Growth During Pandemic,  with Jason Saving, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2022  

media coverage: Financial Times, Business Insider

Black Workers, Mothers Leaving Early Education and Child Care Jobs amid Health Risks, Low Pay, with Anna Crockett, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2022  

Did expanded Child Tax Credit enable parents in financially vulnerable households to work during pandemic?, with Jason Saving, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2023  

media coverage: NPR-Texas Standard, 

cited in:  US Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight  

Young adults are disconnected from work and school due to long-term labor force trends;

Demographic Disparities among Disconnected Young Adults Persist but are Narrowing Over Time

with Anna Crockett, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2023  

 cited in: NPR-Texas Standard, Governor Bowman‘s remarks 

COVID-era eviction moratoriums improved financial well-being … while they lasted, with Nitzan Tzur-Ilan, Emily Perlmeter, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2023  

  media coverage: Axios, Dallas Morning News

EITC Increases Labor Force Participation Among Married Black Mothers,  with Aparna Jayashankar and Jason Saving, Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2023

Labor Market Recovery and Wage Growth Unequal Across Age Groups after Pandemic,  with Aparna Jayashankar, , Dallas Fed Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2023