Peer-Reviewed Publications

[1] Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India (with Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,  Forthcoming.  [Preprint]

[2] Housing Affordability and Rent Control: The Case of Elderly Renters (with Xun Bian and Ruoyu Chen), Urban Studies, Forthcoming.  [Preprint]

[3] Does Rent Control Increase Tenant Unemployment? (with Luis Quintero and Xi Yang), Journal of Urban Economics, September 2025. [Preprint]

[4] Making the Most of Coresident Data: Credible Evidence on Intergenerational Mobility with Sibling Correlation (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, and Forhad Shilpi), Journal of Development Economics, September 2025. [Preprint]

[5] Do Immigrants Equally Benefit from Rent Control? (with Xun Bian and Ruoyu Chen), Real Estate Economics, January 2025.  [Preprint]

[6] Measuring the Value of Rent Stabilization and Understanding its Implications for Racial Inequality: Evidence from New York City (with Ruoyu Chen and Luis Quintero), Regional Science and Urban Economics, November 2023.  [Preprint]

[7] Beyond Particulate Matter: New Evidence on the Causal Effects of Air Pollution on Mortality (with Maoyong Fan and Maigeng Zhou), Journal of Health Economics, September 2023.  [Preprint]

Working Papers

[1] Rent Control, Rent Overcharge, and Racial Disparity (with Brent Ambrose, Xun Bian, and Ruoyu Chen) [Preprint] | First Version 2023/11 

• Presented at ARES Annual Spring Meeting (March 2024), Conference on Low-Income Housing Supply and Housing Affordability at UCLA (April 2024), AREUEA National Meeting (May 2024), the 2nd Summer Meeting in Urban Economics at Peking University (August 2024), UEA North American Meeting (October 2024), Real Estate Research Symposium at ODU (October 2024), North Texas Economics Conference (November 2024), APPAM Fall Research Conference (November 2024), SEA Annual Meeting (November 2024), North Texas Real Estate Research Symposium at UT Arlington (February 2025), UEA European Meeting (March 2025), as well as University of Windsor, University of Cincinnati (October 2024), William Newman Department of Real Estate at Baruch College (April 2025)

[2] Polluted Air, Troubled Minds: The Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in the United States (with Maoyong Fan, Chang Liu, and Yuhang Pan). [Preprint] | First Version 2024/08

[3] Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, Qingyang Han, and Forhad Shilpi). [Preprint] | First Version 2022/07

[4] Opportunity and Risk (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, and Forhad Shilpi).  [Preprint] | First Version 2022/06