Xiao Wang's research focuses on environmental economics and health economics. She studies questions related to environmental regulations, firm behavior, and health impact of pollution. Her current projects analyze pollution exposure inequity, location choice of firms in respose to environmental regulations and public pressure, and effects of pollution on children's health. She receives fundings from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Hunan Social Science Foundation. 

Xiao received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 and holds an M.A. in Economics from North Carolina State University.  She worked in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral researcher from 2019 to 2021 and worked as an assistant professor at Hunan University in Changsha, China from 2022 to 2025. She is now an assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University at Jiangsu, China. 

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