Labor Supply, Migration, and Search Frictions
The Effect of an Early Career Recession on Schooling and Lifetime Welfare (International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1511-1545)
Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector (with Shuaizhang Feng, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 29 (4), 918-932)
Rural Pensions, Labor Reallocation, and Aggregate Income: An Empirical and Quantitative Analysis of China (with Qingen Gai, Bingjing Li, Qinghua Shi, and Xiaodong Zhu, Econometrica, 93.5 (2025): 1663-1696)
Migration Restrictions and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap: The Role of Wage Setting and Sorting (with Li Zhang, Rongjie Zhang, and Ben Zou, revise and resubmit at American Economic Review)
Domestic Outsourcing and Employment Security (with Duoxi Li and Michael B. Wong, revise and resubmit at Journal of Development Economics)
Growing without Divergent: The Impact of Innovation on Low- and High-skilled Migration in China (with Suqin Ge, Zibin Huang, Junsen Zhang, and Li Zhang)
Family Economics
A Matching Model of Co-Residence with a Family Network: Empirical Evidence from China (with Xiaoyu Xia and Junsen Zhang, Economic Journal, 2022, 132(648), 2873-2917)
Reexamining the Effect of Birth Order on Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities: New Evidence from China (with Shumeng Zhang and Junsen Zhang, Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102476)
Home Location Choice and the Gender Commute Gap (with Yizhen Gu, Jing Wu, and Ben Zou, Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 545-575)
Public Pensions and Family Dynamics: Eldercare, Child Investment, and Son Preference in Rural China (with Ruixin Wang, Wei Huang, Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103390)
Does a Pandemic Affect Household Portfolio Choices? Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic (with Charles Ka Yui Leung and Shumeng Zhang, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 231 (2025): 106931 )
Childbirth and Welfare Inequality: The Role of Bargaining Power and Intrahousehold Allocation (with Anning Xie, revise and resubmit at Journal of Labor Economics)
Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocations (with Junsen Zhang, revise and resubmit at International Economics Review)
Education Economics
Do Elite Colleges Matter? Its Impact on Entrepreneurship Decisions and Career Dynamics (with Charles Ka Yui Leung, Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (4), 1347-1397)
Tutoring Efficacy, Household Substitution, and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from an After-School Tutoring Program in Rural China (with Jere Behrman, Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei, Hongliang Zhang, and Junsen Zhang, International Economic Review, 2024, 65(1), 149-189)
The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Free Education on Schooling: Direct Effects and Intra-Household Spillovers (with Shuangxin Wang and Junsen Zhang, The Economic Journal, 2024, 134(663), 2876-2911)
Unveiling Educational Inequality: The Divergent Effects of School Consolidation in Rural China (with Le Kang, Shuangxin Wang, and Peng Zhang)
Debt Dilemma: Effects of College Student Loans on Higher Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Ling Zhong)