Publication
1. Information Access and College Admission Outcomes (with Yang Song and Li Chen)
Journal of Public Economics (2026)
2. Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes (with Ziteng Lei, Yang Song, and Peng Zhang)
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (2024)
3. College Matching Mechanisms and Matching Stability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China (with Wei Ha and Yang Song)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2020)
Revise & Resubmit
1. Unveiling Educational Inequality: The Divergent Effects of School Closure in Rural China (with Naijia Guo, Shuangxin Wang, and Peng Zhang)
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics
2. Gone with the Aid: How Paired Assistance Program Affects Migration Intentions (with Shuo Li, Qinrui Xiahou, and Peng Zhang)
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Urban Economics
4. The Value of Late Specialization in Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China’s Meta-major Reform (with Di Wang, Xu Wei, Xiaoyang Ye, and Yi Zhou)
Revise & Resubmit at Economic Development and Cultural Change
Working Paper
1. Private Tutoring Regulation and Household Education Investment in China , with Marty Haoyuan Chen, Wei Lu, Yi Wei, and Jingyi Xing
Reject & Resubmit at Economic Journal
2. Matching Mechanisms, Justified Envy, and College Admissions Outcomes, with Wei Ha, Yang Song, and Sen Zhou
3. Dynamic Matching Mechanism and Matching Stability in College Admissions: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, with Wei Ha, Marty Haoyuan Chen, and Yuhao Deng
4. From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools, with Eric A. Hanushek, Xueying Li, and Lei Zhang
5. Doubly Robust Estimation of Treatment Effects in Staggered Difference-in-Differences with Time-Varying Covariates, with Yuhao Deng
Ongoing Research
1. Emigration, Fiscal Spillovers, and Public Education Spending on Rural Schools in China (with Gang Xie, Xiaoshu Xu, and Lei Zhang)
2. Real Estate Downturn and Human Capital Allocation: Evidence from College Major Choice in China (with Yulian Cao, Di Wang, Bowen Zhang)
3. When Tax Reforms Hit the Classroom: The Unintended Effects of China's VAT Reform on Basic Education (with Dan Su, Huihua Xie, and Peng Zhang)
4. Returns to Elite College Attendance in China: Evidence from Administrative Data (with Kunfeng Pan and Yang Song)