Publications

1. Physical Attractiveness and Gender Differences in Drug Taking (with Junsen Zhang), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming

2. Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions (with Carl Singleton, Adrian Bell, James Reade and Andrew Urquhart), Economics Letters, 2024

3. An Economic Analysis of Tiger Parenting: Evidence from Child Developmental Delay or Learning Disability (with Yanyan Xiong and Junsen Zhang), Labour Economics, 2022 

4. Gender Difference in Suicide, Household Production and Unemployment, Applied Economics, 2009

Working papers

1. To work or not to work: my child ranks dead last in school! 

2. Parent-child Age Gap and Physical Punishment (with Junsen Zhang)

3. Looks and Gaming: Who and Why? (with Daniel S. Hamermesh, Carl Singleton, Zhengxin Wang and Junsen Zhang) NBER working paper 32809, IZA discussion paper 17191 2nd R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

4. Physical Attractiveness and Couple Formation Strategies: A Bidirectional Analysis (with Junsen Zhang) 

Selected ongoing research projects

1. Native-immigrant earning gap (with Carl Singleton and Giovanni Razzu)

2. Football and policing (with Nils Braakmann, James Reade and Gennaro Rossi)

3. Domestic violence