Journal Publications

1. Agarwal, Sumit, Mingxuan Fan, and Yu Qin*, 2025. “Avoid Urban Development Policy that Fuels Climate Risk,” Nature Climate Change 15: 804-805. 

2. Fan, Mingxuan* and Corbett Grainger, 2023. “The Impact of Air Pollution on Labor Supply in China,” Sustainability 15(17): 13082. 

3. Agarwal, Sumit, Eduardo Araral, Mingxuan Fan*, Yu Qin, and Huanhuan Zheng, 2023. “The effects of policy announcement, prices and subsidies on water consumption,” Nature Water 1: 176-186.  

   • Bloomberg: Want People to Use Less Water? Tell Them It’s Going to Cost More 

4. Agarwal, Sumit, Eduardo Araral, Mingxuan Fan*, Yu Qin, and Huanhuan Zheng, 2022. “Water Conservation Through Plumbing and Nudging.” Nature Human Behaviour 6: 858-867.  

   • Nature Research Highlight: How to save water: plumbing can be changed but people can't. Nature 604, 221 (2022). 

Working Papers

1.  “Eating Smart: Reducing Unhealthy Food during High Pollution” (with Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh,  Yajie Han, Yu Qin, and Akshar Saxena) under submission

2.  “The Illusion of Free Electricity: Behavioral Responses to Solar Panel Tender Announcements” (with Jinze Cao) Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

3. “From Efficiency to Excess: Understanding Utility Usage in Green-Certified Homes” (with Sumit Agarwal, Eduardo Araral, Yu Qin, and Huanhuan Zheng) under submission

4. “Water Consumption in High-rise Buildings: Evidence from Singapore” (with Sumit Agarwal, Eduardo Araral, Yunfeng Lu) under submission

5. “The Impact of an Extreme Weather Event on Business Performance” (with Sumit Agarwal, Smarajit Paul Choudhury, and Leora Klapper) under submission

• Let's Talk Development: When wind speeds mislead: What hurricanes really do to local economies—and how real-time data can shape policy. 

6. “Developer Transparency and Mortgage Access: Expanding Homeownership” (with Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, Arkodipta Sarkar, and Xiaoyu Zhang) under submission

7.  “Buzzworthy Solutions: Dengue Control and Energy Consumption” (with Sumit Agarwal, Yifan Chen, Yu Qin, and Akshar Saxena) under submission

8. “Building Climate-Resilient Mobility: Infrastructure Adaptation and Travel Behavior Responses to Flood Disruptions” (with Jinze Cao, Ruochen Dai, Dongmei Guo, and Yu Qin)

9.  “The Economics of Flooding” (with Sumit Agarwal, Yajie Han, Yu Qin, and Hongjia Zhu)

10.  “Leakage of Carbon and Co-pollutants from Regional Cap-and-Trade: Evidence from RGGI” (with Corbett Grainger) 

Selected Work-in-Progress Projects

1.  “Beyond Diagnosis: The Hidden Health Burden of Long-term PM2.5 Exposure” (with Zhuoru Ma and Akshar Saxena)

2.  “Mitigating Extreme Heat Damages to Food Security: The Role of Integrated Irrigation Management” (with Qinan Lu and Le Yu)

3. “Behind the Concrete Curtain: Restrictive Zoning and Neighborhood Air Quality" (with Corbett Grainger and Siyuan Hu)

Other Publications

1. Seetharam, K.E. and Mingxuan Fan, 2014. “Overcoming Challenges in Water and Sanitation in Asia.” In Shiladitya Chatterjee, ed., Ending Asian Deprivations: Compulsions for a fair, prosperous, and equitable Asia, Oxford, UK and New York, US: Routledge, pp. 203-219. 

2. Seetharam, K.E. and Mingxuan Fan, 2013. “Challenges Facing the Management of Water Resources.” In Water and Food Security in the Arabian Gulf, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, pp. 37-58.

3. Fan, Mingxuan and Bhanoji Rao,  2012. “Provincial Water Access in China and India: A Comparative Assessment.” In Piyush Tiwari and Ajay Pandey, eds., India Infrastructure Report 2011, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, pp. 117-198.

4. Fan, Mingxuan and K. E. Seetharam, 2011. “Water Resources Management in ASEAN Plus Three Countries: Challenges and Policy Responses.” East Asia Policy 3(2): 13-27