Huang, Zibin, Liu, Yinan, Ma, Mingming and Yang, Leo Yang (2025). Biting the Hand That Teaches: Unraveling the Economic Impact of Banning Private Tutoring in China. Journal of Comparative Economics. In Press.
Li, Haoyang, Chen, Yifeng and Ma, Mingming (2024). Temperature and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese Older Adults. Ecological Economics 225, 108342.
Jain, Urvashi and Ma, Mingming (2024). Together in sickness and in health: Spillover of physical, mental, and cognitive health among older English couples. Health Economics 33(9), 1989–2012.
Ma, Mingming, Wang, Shun, and Wu, Fengyu (2024). Lockdown, Infection, and Expressed Happiness in China. Journal of Happiness Studies 25, 40.
Torres, Jacqueline, Yahirun, Jenjira, Sheehan, Connor, Ma, Mingming, and Sáenz, Joseph (2021). Adult child socio-economic disadvantage and cognitive decline among older Mexican parents. Social Science & Medicine 279, 113910.
Ma, Mingming, Yahirun, Jenjira, Saenz, Joseph, and Sheehan, Connor (2021). Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico. Demography 58(1), 75–109.
Jain, Urvashi and Ma, Mingming (2020). Height shrinkage, health and mortality among older adults: Evidence from Indonesia. Economics and Human Biology 37, 100863.
Ma, Mingming (2019). Does children's education matter for parents' health and cognition? Evidence from China. Journal of Health Economics 66, 222–240.
Ma, Mingming and Shi, Xinzheng (2014). Magnet classes and educational performance: evidence from China. Economic Development and Cultural Change 62, 537–566.
Kim, Seonga, Ma, Mingming, Wang, Shun and Wu, Fengyu (2022). Measuring Happiness amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report 2022. New York: Global Happiness Council, Sustainable Development Solutions Networks.
Ma, Mingming and Wu, Fengyu (2021). Happiness in the Aging Society. In China Happiness Report 2021, forthcoming.
Kim, Seonga, Ma, Mingming, Wang, Shun and Wu, Fengyu (2021). Policy Brief 2: Measuring Happiness during the Pandemic. In Policy Brief 2: Resilience in Turbulent Times. New York: Global Happiness Council, Sustainable Development Solutions Networks.
Kim, Seonga, Ma, Mingming, Wang, Shun and Wu, Fengyu (2021). Policy Brief 1: Measuring Happiness during the Pandemic. In Policy Brief 1: Surviving COVID-19. New York: Global Happiness Council, Sustainable Development Solutions Networks.
Ma, Mingming, Wang, Shun and Wu, Fengyu (2021). COVID-19 and Well-being: Lessons from East Asia. In Helliwell, John F., Layard, Richard, Sachs, Jeffrey, and De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (eds.), World Happiness Report 2021. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
1. With Jain, Urvashi, Sheehan Connor, and Yahirun, Jenjira. Degrees of Comfort: Adult Children’s Education and Parental Sleep Quality among Older Adults in India (revise and resubmit).
2. With Wu, Fengyu. Loss of Children and Parental Health and Well-being: Evidence from China.
3. With Guo, Feng, Li, Jing and Zha, Danyan. Identity on the Bench: Gender In-Group Bias in the Judiciary (under review).
4. With Chen, Yifeng, and Li, Haoyang. Heating Up Risk Aversion: The Long-Term Impact of Prenatal Temperature on Risk Preferences (under review).
5. With Wu, Binzhen and Zhong, Xiaohan. Matching Mechanisms, Matching Quality, and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from China.