Research

Journal publications (English)

1. Li, W., Lin, Y., Yi, J., & Zhang, H. (2027). Dual-Track in the Family: How Spousal State Employment Fuels Entrepreneurship. Journal of Development Economics, 184: 103899.

2. Yan, W., Yang, H., Yi, J., & Zhang, C. (2026). Hospital Heterogeneous Responses to a Blended Payment Scheme Reform and the Distributional Consequences. International Economic Review, forthcoming.

3. Gruber, J., Lin, M., Liu, H., & Yi, J. (2026). How You Pay Drives What You Choose: Mental Accounting in Health Insurance Plan Choice. Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

4. Zhou, X., Leiva-Granados, R., Yi, J., Yao, Z., Fang, J., & Skordis, J. (2026). A Differences-in-Differences Study of Staff Experience in the English NHS after Investment in Digital Technologies. Communications Medicine, forthcoming.

5. Li, W., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2026). How Nurture Activates Nature in Determining Savings Behavior: Evidence from China's Send-Down Movement and Twins Data. Economic Journal, forthcoming.

6. Guo, R., Lin, L., Yi, J., & Zhu, H. (2026). Intergenerational Impact of Birth-Control Policies on Fertility: The Role of Norms. Economic Journal, forthcoming.

7. Qin, X., Yi, J., & Zhang, H. (2026). Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.

8. Lin, Mengyun, Hanmo Yang, and Junjian Yi.  (2026) "Institutional assembly under constraints: pathways to universal health coverage in Brazil, Rwanda, and China." Health Economics, Policy and Law: 1-10. 

9. Yu, Y., Fan, Yi., & Yi, J. (2026). China's One-Child Policy Amplifies Intergenerational Inequality via Enlarged Differential Fertility, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(2), e2525381123.

10. Zhao, R.,  Yuan, Y., Liu, C., & Yi, J. (2026). Aging in Haze, Journal of Development Economics, 180: 103717.

11. Guo, R., Yi, J., Zhang, J., & Zhang, N. (2025). Rationed Fertility: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff. Journal of Political Economy, 133(10), 3349–3386.

12. Yuan Y., Song, C., Yang, N., & Yi, J. (2025).  The Effect of Information and Streamlined Appointment on Patient Sorting and Hospital Efficiency, Journal of Industrial Economics, 73(3), 498-519.

13. Yu, Y., Gong, L., & Yi, J. (2025). Globalization Raises Intergenerational Inequality Transmission in Chinese Villages, Journal of Comparative Economics, 53(3), 627-642. 

14. Gruber, J., Lin, M., Yi, J., & Yang, H. (2025). China’s Social Health Insurance in the Era of Rapid Population Aging: Achievements and Challenges, JAMA  Health Forum, 6(4), e251105.

15. Bhaskar, V., Li, W., & Yi, J. (2025). Strategic Parental Investments in a Competitive Marriage Market, European Economic Review, 173: 104958.

16. Koh, Y., Li, J., Wu, Y., Yi, J., & Zhang, H. (2025). Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration. Journal of Development Economics, 172: 103378.

17. Zhou, X., Skordis, J., Yi, J., Li, Y., Clarke, J., & Zhang, H. (2024). Can wage changes solve the labour crisis in the National Health Service? European Journal of Health Economics, 25(9), 1-15.

18. Jin, L., Tang, R., Ye, H., Yi, J., & Zhong, S. (2024). Path dependency in physician decisions. Review of Economic Studies, 91(5), 2916-2953.

19. Hu, J., Wang, X., Yang, Q., & Yi, J. (2024). Gender disparities in the labor market during COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from online job postings and applications in China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 223, 199-215.

20. Liu, G., Peng, X., Yang, H.,  & Yi, J. (2024). How Much Does Government’s Short-Term Response Matter for the Spread of COVID-19? A Regression and Relative Importance Analysis of 85 Countries. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), e000032.

21. Liu, G., Yi, J., Yuan, Y., & Zhao, S. (2023). The short- and long-run effects of medical malpractice lawsuits on medical spending and hospital operations in China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(4), 1142-1161.

22. Bhaskar, V., Li, W., & Yi, J. (2023). Multidimensional Premarital Investments with Imperfect Commitment. Journal of Political Economy, 131(10), 2893–2919.

23. Li, W., Lou, X., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2023). Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching. Journal of Labor Economics, 41(4), 859–886.

24. Gruber, J., Lin, M., & Yi, J. (2023). The largest insurance program in history: Saving one million lives per year in China. Journal of Public Economics, 226, 104999.

25. Ye, H. & Yi, J. (2023). Patient-Physician Race Concordance, Physician Decisions, and Patient Outcomes. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(4): 766–779.

26. Huang, Y., Pantano, J., Ye, H., & Yi, J. (2023). Property Division upon Divorce and Household Decisions. Journal of Human Resources, 58(2), 532-560.

27. Li, W., Leng, Z., Yi, J., & Zhong, S. (2023). A multifaceted poverty reduction program has economic and behavioral consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(10), e2219078120.

28. Yi, J., Chu, J., & Png, I. P. L. (2022). Early-life exposure to hardship increased risk tolerance and entrepreneurship in adulthood with gender differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(15), e2104033119.

29. Li, W., Song, C., Xu. S., & Yi, J. (2022). High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China. Journal of Human Resources, 57(2), 465-490. 

30. Guo, R., Wang, Q., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2022). Housing prices and son preference: Evidence from China’s housing reform. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 30(3), 421-446.

31. Myong, S., Park, J., & Yi, J. (2021). Social Norms and Fertility. Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(5), 2429-2466.

32. Li, W. & Yi, J. (2021). Alphabetical Author Order, Intellectual Collaboration, and High-Skilled Migration. Economic Journal, 131(635): 1250-1268.

33. Fan, Y., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2021). Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(1):202-30.

34. Li, W., Li, J., & Yi, J. (2021). Government Management Capacities and the Containment of COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-sectional Study across Chinese Cities. BMJ Open, 11(4), e041516.

35. Guo, R., Lin L., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2020). The cross-spousal effect of education on health. Journal of Development Economics, 146:102493.

36. Jin, L., Tang, R., Ye, H., Yi, J., & Zhong, S. (2020). Time Dependency in Physician Decisions. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.110, 284-288.

37. Yi, J., Yuan, Y., & Zhao, S. (2019). Differential Responses to Market Competition by Private and Public Hospitals in China: A Longitudinal Analysis. The Lancet. 394, Supplement 1, Page S37.

38. Yi, J. (2019). Endogenous Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Twins. Journal of Labor Economics, 37(1), 247-295.

39. Wrenn, D., Yi, J., & Zhang, B. (2019). House Prices and Marriage Entry in China. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 74(1), 118-130.

40. Chew, S., Yi, J., Zhang, J., & Zhong, S. (2018). Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Adult Twins. Management Science, 59(2), 757-784.

41. Weiss, Y., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2018). Cross-border Marriage Costs and Marriage Behavior: Theory and Evidence. International Economic Review, 64(8), 3896-3910.

42. Fan, Y., Yi, J., Yuan, Y., & Zhang, J. (2018). Glorified Mothers of Sons: FE and IV Estimates of the Effect of Sex Composition on Parental Time Allocation in Rural China. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145, 249-260.

43. Guo, R., Li, H., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2018). Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1), 145-156.

44. Guo, R., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2017). Family Size, Birth Order and Tests of the Quantity-Quality Model. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(2), 219-224.

45. Ye. M., & Yi, J. (2017). Parental Preferences, Human Capital Production Technologies, and the Provisions for Progeny. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(2), 344-365.

46. Chew, S., Yi, J., Zhang, J., & Zhong, S. (2016). Education and anomalies in decision-making: Experimental evidence from Chinese adult twins. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 53(2), 163-200.

47. Ha, W., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2016). Brain drain, brain gain, and economic growth in China. China Economic Review, 38, 322-337.

48. Ha, W., Yi, J., Yuan, Y., & Zhang, J. (2016). The dynamic effect of rural-to-urban migration on inequality in source villages: System GMM estimates from rural China. China Economic Review, 37, 27-39.

49. Yi, J., Heckman, J., Zhang, J., & Conti, G. (2015). Early health shocks, intra-household resource allocation, and child outcomes. Economic Journal, 125 (588), F347-F371.

50. Yi, J., Chou, K. L., Yung, L., & Zhang, J. (2015). Public Housing, School Segregation, and Children’s Education: Evidence from Hong Kong. Frontiers of Economics in China, 10(3), 414-448.

51. Edlund, L., Li, H., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2013). Sex ratios and crime: Evidence from China. Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(5), 1520-1534.

52. Li, H., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2011). Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on the sex ratio imbalance in China: Identification based on the difference-in-differences. Demography, 48(4), 1535-1557.

53. Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2010). The effect of house price on fertility: Evidence from Hong Kong. Economic Inquiry, 48(3), 635-650. 

Journal publications (Chinese)

54. Guo, R., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2026). Changes in Traditional Fertility Norms, Intergenerational Commitment, and Demand-side Fertility Policies.  Economic Research Journal, forthcoming.

55. Hu, S., & Yi, J. (2026). The Light of Intelligence: Human–AI Collaboration and the Transformation of Economics and Management Research, China Economic Quarterly, 26(3), 753-789.

56. Wang, Y., Li, H., Yang, R., & Yi, J. (2025). The Recent Development in Instrumental Variable Estimator and Its Applications, China Economic Quarterly, 25(6), 1411-1442.

57. Yi, J.，Lin, Y.，Zhou, Z.，& Hong, Y.  (2025). Economic theory on the labor market and structural econometrics in the era of artificial intelligence. Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 39(5):1-10.

58. Lin, M., Xu, Y., Guo, R., & Yi, J. (2025). Understanding Recent Advances in Difference-in-Differences Estimators within a Unified Framework: A Model Misspecification Perspective, Management World, 41(6), 227-247. 

59. Li, Z., Qin, X., & Yi, J. (2024). Individual risk preferences and time preferences under risk environment: A study based on stochastic bonus experiments. Insurance Research Journal, 439(11), 24-37.

60. Chen, Y., Zhang, H., Yang, R. & Yi, J. (2023). Economic Opportunity, Intergenerational Mobility, and Shared Prosperity: A Survey, China Economic Quarterly, 23(6), 2061-2083.

Book chapters (English)

61. Guo, R., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2027). The child quantity-quality trade-off, in Zimmerman, K. (Ed.). Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer.

62. Heckman, J., & Yi, J. (2014). Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China, in Fan et al. (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, Oxford University Press.

Book chapters (Chinese)

63. Yi, J., & Zhou, Z. (2027). Human capital research in China in the age of artificial intelligence. In Zhang, J. (Ed.), Chinese Handbook of Labor Economics. Forthcoming. 

64. Yi, J. (2026). Socioeconomic research using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS): From real-world data to intellectural innovation and optimal policy design. In Zhang, J., Xie, Y., & Zhao, Y. (Eds.), Data Platform-Driven Social Science Research. Peking University Press.