Selected Journal Publications 

• Vehicle Exhaust Standards and Urban Air Quality in China, (w/ Li Shu and Wei Wang), Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172: 103387. 

• The Distributional Effects of Temperature Changes: Evidence from China's Cement Industry, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025, 88(1): 163-184. 

• Environmental Regulation and Intermediate Imports: Firm-Product-Level Evidence, (w/ Chao Han, Chongyu Li and Jiansuo Pei), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 127: 103043. 

• The Impact of Air Quality on Innovation Activities in China, (w/ Jingbo Cui and Shaoqing Huang), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 122: 102893.

- Featured in South China Morning Post. link here.

• Is Environmental Regulation the Answer to Pollution Problems in Urbanizing Economies? (w/ JunJie Wu and Kathleen Segerson), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 117: 102754.

- Received the AAEA Quality of Research Discovery Award Honorable Mention, 2024.

• Corporate Responses to Air Quality Regulation: Evidence from a Regional Environmental Policy in China, (w/ Jie Mao and Haitao Yin), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 98: 103851.

• Size Control or Intensity Control: A Comparative Study of Two Common Environmental Regulations, (w/ Hongyu Nian and Haitao Yin), Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2022, 61: 169-190.

• The Effectiveness of China’s Regional Carbon Market Pilots in Reducing Firm Emissions, (w/ Jingo Cui, Junjie Zhang and Yang Zheng), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118(52): e2109912118.

-  Research highlight (Nature Climate Change). 

- Media coverage: South China Morning Post, Carbon Brief, Global Times 

• Environmental Regulation, Emissions and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese COD-emitting Manufacturers, (w/ JunJie Wu and Bing Zhang), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92: 54-73.

• Spatial Dynamics of Urban Neighborhood Quality of Life, (w/ Elizabeth Delmelle and Jean-Claude Thill), Annals of Regional Science, 2016, 56: 687-705.

• Regulating Land Development in a Disaster-Prone Area: The Roles of Building Codes, Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, 36: 209-228.

• Natural Amenities, Increasing Returns, and Urban Development, (w/ JunJie Wu), Journal of Economic Geography,  2011, 11: 687-707.

• Sources of Energy Productivity Growth and Its Distribution Dynamics in China, Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, 33: 279-292.  

Other Journal Publications 

• Housing and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from Urban China, (w/ Sanbai Sun, Yan Zhang, Ding Li and Chu Wei), Cities, 2022, 131: 104035.

• Environmental Satisfaction in Chinese Cities, (w/ Changdong Zhang and Yong Wang), Empirical Economics, 2020, 59: 2283-2301.

• The Changes in Coal Intensity of Electricity Generation in Chinese Coal-fired Power Plants, (w/ Xiaoyong Cao, Jie Mao and Ping Qin), Energy Economics, 2019, 80: 491-501.

• Did Natural Disasters Affect Population Density Growth in U.S. Counties? Annals of Regional Science, 2019, 62: 21-46.

• Changing Energy Intensity of Economies in the World and Its Decomposition, Energy Economics, 2013, 40: 637-644.

• Differential Output Growth across Regions and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from U.S. and China, Energy, 2013, 53: 230-236.

• Estimating the Demand for Public Open Space, (w/ Jean-Claude Thill and Ross Meentemeyer), Papers in Regional Science, 2012, 91: 219-232.  

• Falling Commuting Costs, Amenity Advantages, and Suburbanization, Annals of Regional Science,  2010, 45: 351-364.  

• Decomposing Energy Productivity Change: A Distance Function Approach, Energy, 2007, 32: 1326-1333.        

Book Chapters

• Who Wants More Open Space? Study of Willingness to Be Taxed to Preserve Open Space in an Urban Environment, (w/ Jean-Claude Thill and Ross Meentemeyer), in H. Shibusawa et al. (eds.), Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science, Springer, 2017. 

• 出口结构变动与碳排放：基于指数分解的分析, (与裴建锁合作), 载于《中国低碳经济发展报告（2014）》(薛进军、赵忠秀主编), 2004年, 社会科学文献出版社。

Publications in Leading Chinese Journals

• 产业结构、最优规模与中国城市化路径选择, (合作者：王垚、年猛), 《经济学季刊》, 2017年第1期.

[Industrial Structure, Optimal Size of Cities and Urbanization in China (w/ Yao Wang, Meng Nian), China Economic Quarterly, 2017, 1.]

• 自然条件、行政等级与中国城市发展, (合作者：王垚、洪俊杰、年猛), 《管理世界》, 2015年第1期.

[Natural Amenities, Administrative Hierarchy, and Urban Growth in China, (w/Yao Wang, Junjie Hong and Meng Nian), Management World, 2015, 1.]

• 城市规模、幸福感与移民空间优化, (合作者：孙三百、黄薇、洪俊杰),《经济研究》, 2014年第1期.

[City size, Happiness and Spatial Optimization of Migration, (w/ Sanbai Sun, Wei Huang and Junjie Hong), Economic Research Journal, 2014, 1:97-111.]

• 农地配置与农村劳动力外出, (合作者：姚洋),《农村经济文稿》, 2001年第1期。

[Land Allocation and Labor Migration in Rural China, (w/ Yang Yao), Papers on Rural Economy, 2001, 1: 54-9.]

Grants

• 2023-2026, PI, "The Double Carbon Goals and Economic Growth in China: Microeconomic Perspectives," National Science Foundation of China.

• 2018-2021, PI, "The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Firm Behaviors," Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

• 2015-2016, PI, “Residential Electricity Consumption in China: The Roles of Weather and Household Income,” WorldFish/EEPSEA

• 2014-2015, PI, “Environmental Regulation, FDI Location and Regional Development: Evidence from Cambodia and China,"  Global Development Network. 

• 2013-2014, PI, “Environmental Satisfaction among Residents in Chinese Cities," WorldFish/EEPSEA.

• 2011-2012, PI, “Changing Energy Intensity of Economies in the World," University of International Business and Economics.

• 2011-2012, PI, “Regional Economic Development, Energy Consumption, and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China and the United States,” International Development Research Center/EEPSEA.

• 2010-2013, CO-PI, “Hierarchical Analysis of Socio-Ecological Interactions in the Charlotte Metropolitan Region: Can Urbanization, Forest and Working Lands Coexist?” National Science Foundation, US.