1. Feng Chen*. Does Paid Family Leave Save Infant Lives? Evidence from California's Paid Family Leave Program. Contemporary Economic Policy, 2023

2. Feng Chen, Douglas N. Harris, The Market-Level Effects of Charter Schools on Student Outcomes: A National Analysis of School Districts. Journal of Public Economics,  2023

3. Feng Chen, Wei Long, Silence Breaking: Sex Crime Reporting in the MeToo Era. Journal of Population Economics, 2024

4. Feng Chen, Douglas N Harris, Mary Penn, The Effects of Charter School Entry on the Supply of Teachers from University-based Education Programs. Economics of Education Review, 2024

5. Douglas N. Harris, Feng Chen, Rylie C. Martin, Ann F. Bernhardt, Christopher R. Marsicano, Paul T. von Hippel, The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2024

6. Fanyu Liu, Kerui Geng, Feng Chen*, Gone with the Wind? Impacts of Hurricanes on College Enrollment and Completion, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025

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1. Input-Trade Liberalization, Female-Skill Intensity and Fertility in China, with Renliang Liu, & Miaojie Yu 

2. Public Pensions and Fertility Decline: Evidence from Rural China, with Wei Huang, & Hong Liu

3. Having a Second Child, the Hidden Role of Local Gender Norms, with Dandan Wang

4. Parents' Misperceptions, Educational Investment, and Children's Skill Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural China,  with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, & Shu Xu

5. Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: A National Analysis of Charter School Effect Heterogeneity,  with Douglas Harris, & Nick Lacoste

6. The Hidden Costs of Police Brutality: Police-Involved Killings and Public Finance,  with Stephanie Cheng, Yu Liu, & Wei Long