Working papers

• New: Sleeping Investment: A Life-Cycle Hypothesis (with Junsen Zhang). Current version: June 2026.

Publications

• Physical Attractiveness and Couple Formation Strategies: A Bidirectional Analysis (with Junsen Zhang), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming

• Football Matches and Policing: Evidence from London (with Nils Braakmann, James Reade and Gennaro Rossi), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2026

• Looks and Gaming: Who and Why? (with Daniel S. Hamermesh, Carl Singleton, Zhengxin Wang and Junsen Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025 

• Physical Attractiveness and Gender Differences in Drug Taking (with Junsen Zhang), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2025

• 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

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

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

Selected ongoing research projects

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

• Domestic violence

• Parenting

• Time allocation

• Football player performance (with Tommy Leung and James Reade)

• Football matches and policing (with Nils Braakmann, James Reade and Gennaro Rossi)