Research
Publication
The Effect of an Early Career Recession on Schooling and Lifetime Welfare (International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1511-1545)
Do Elite Colleges Matter? Its Impact on Entrepreneurship Decisions and Career Dynamics (with Charles Ka Yui Leung, Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (4), 1347-1397)
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)
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 Cognition and Noncognition: New Evidence from China (with Shumeng Zhang and Junsen Zhang, Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102476)
Home Location Choice and Gender Gap in Commute (with Yizhen Gu, Jing Wu, and Ben Zou, Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 545-575)
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, forthcoming at International Economic Review)
Direct and Spillover Effects of Free Education on Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Shuangxin Wang and Junsen Zhang, forthcoming at the Economic Journal)
Working papers
Migration Costs, Sorting, and Agricultural Productivity Gap (with Qingen Gai, Bingjing Li, Qinghua Shi, and Xiaodong Zhu, revise and resubmit at Econometrica)
How Do Public Pensions Reshape Eldercare and Social Norms with Son Preference? Evidence from China (with Ruixin Wang, Wei Huang, revise and resubmit at Journal of Development Economics)
Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocations (with Junsen Zhang)
Domestic Outsourcing and Employment Security (with Duoxi Li and Michael B. Wong)
Childbirth and Welfare Inequality: The Role of Bargaining Power and Intrahousehold Allocation (with Anning Xie)
Migration Restrictions and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap: The Role of Wage Setting and Sorting (with Li Zhang, Rongjie Zhang, and Ben Zou)
The Impact of Technology on Low- and High-skilled Migration in China: A General Equilibrium Approach (with Suqin Ge, Zibin Huang, Junsen Zhang, and Li Zhang)
Does a Pandemic Affect Household Portfolio Choices? Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic (with Charles Ka Yui Leung and Shumeng Zhang)
Does Online Gaming Affect Academic Performance? Evidence from an Anti-Addiction System for Minors (with Yishu Wang and Yuting Zheng)