Research

Qin, X., Yi, J., & Zhang, H. (2025). Quarter of Birth, Gender Inequality, and Economic Development, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Li, W., Leng, Z., Yi, J., & Zhong, S. (2023). A multifaceted poverty reduction program has economic and behavioral consequences. PNAS, 120(10), e2219078120.

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

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. 

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.

Myong, S., Park, J., & Yi, J. (2021). Social Norms and Fertility. JEEA, 19(5), 2429-2466.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Guo, R., Yi, J., & Zhang, J. (2022). The child quantity-quality trade-off, in Zimmerman, K. (Ed.). Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer.

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.