Favoring Your In-group Can Harm Both Them and You: Ethnicity and Public Goods Provision in China (with César Mantilla, Charlotte Wang, Donghui Yang, Suping Shen, and Paul Seabright) at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021)
Awareness or Regulation: Migration Responses to Air Pollution in China (previous version)
Abstract: This paper studies the impact of China's air quality monitoring and disclosure program on migration response to air pollution. Using information on individual residential locations in 2010--2015 from the 2015 Population Census, we find that this program caused a larger population drop in prefectures with poorer air quality by pushing residents away. These outflows mainly stemmed from worse labor market conditions after stringent measures for pollution crackdowns. Neglecting pollution regulation, we would underestimate the change in individuals' willingness to pay for clean air. This paper also quantifies the economic costs of environmental regulation.
Marriage, Migration, and Migration Policy: Evidence from Hukou Reform in China [previous version]
Too Risky to Hedge: An Experiment on Narrow Framing (with Jiakun Zheng) [replication][latest version] revise and resubmit at Experimental Economics
The Political Economy of Imperial Trade Policy (with Roberto Bonfatti, Giovanni Facchini, and Peri Silva)
The Great Depression, Trade, and Political Outcomes in Britain (with Facundo Albornoz, Roberto Bonfatti, and Valeria Rueda)
Tariff Shocks, Inter-generational Transfers, and Persistent Human Capital Inequality: Theory and Evidence (with Junsen Zhang and Kang Zhou)