Labor/Education

Composition of peer mothers and gender norms: Class randomization and short-run effects (with Liwen Chen, Guanghua Wang), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2025)

• WP version

Occupational Licensing in US Public Schools: Nationwide Implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment (with Jian Zou), Journal of Public Economics (2025)

• WP version

• [NCTQ interview] [Texas Tribune] [NJ Policy Perspective] [Education Next]

Job Market Signaling through Occupational Licensing (with Peter Blair), Review of Economics and Statistics (2025)

1. • NBER Working Paper

   • Media: [Wall Street Journal] [Quartz] [Brooking] [NY Times]

   • Replication Archive

Effects of Occupational License Access on Undocumented Immigrants: Evidence from the California Reform, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2024)

• June 2023: Working paper

• Media: [CGO Policy Brief] [Orange County Register]

Understanding Spillover of Peer Parental Education: Randomization Evidence and Mechanisms (with Jian Zou), Economic Inquiry (2023)

• HCEO Working Paper

Exposure to Socially Influential Peer Parents: Evidence from Cadre Parents in China (with Liwen Chen, Guanghua Wang),  China Economic Review (2023)

• HCEO Working Paper

The costs and potential benefits of occupational licensing: A case of real estate license reform, Labour Economics (2022)

1. • Policy brief: [Knee Center]

 A Model of Occupational Licensing and Statistical Discrimination (with Peter Blair), AEA Papers and Proceedings (2021)

1. • NBER Working Paper (detailed proofs)

Peers' Parents and Educational Attainment: The Exposure Effect, Labour Economics (2020)

• HCEO Working Paper

How Much of a Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing? (with Peter Blair) , British Journal of Industrial Relations (2019)

• Policy brief: [CATO]