I am an applied microeconomist who specializes in labor and education, working intensively on policy-relevant research. 

One of my research agendas on labor/education focuses on human capital formation (e.g., how HC is affected by peers, peer parents, teachers, and school spending); while another agenda on public aims to understand the Chinese economy in the 2010s via studying the effects/consequences of various institutional reforms (e.g., internal migration).

My research methodologically integrates the examination of large administrative and survey data sets with sharp causal designs that build on (quasi-)random assignment/policy variations. 

Please check out the pipeline of my research below.