Research

Photograph shot in 2019 Summer

Working Papers

The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy: Evidence from China (with Erqi Ge; My JMP for my 2nd time Econ Job Market in 2022-2023; Revision requested at the Journal of Development Economics)

IZA Discussion Paper, SSRN Working Paper, GLO Discussion Paper

Rally Post-Terrorism (3rd round revision requested at the Journal of Population Economics)

CESifo Working Paper, GLO Discussion Paper

Media Coverage: Research Luxembourg

Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism (My JMP for my 1st time Econ Job Market in 2018-2019; Accepted at the Journal of Law and Economics)

IZA Discussion Paper, GLO Discussion Paper

Media Coverage: News Tilburg University

Selected Work in Progress

Social Capital and Perceptions: Evidence from Observational Studies and Experiments (with Fabio Tufano)

Gender, Social Movement, and Cultural Change (with Xiqian Cai, and Zhengquan Cheng; First draft coming soon)

Divergent Racial Attitudes (with Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee, and Juliane Wiese; First draft coming soon)

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journals

Mental Health Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization (with Jan C. van Ours)

Health Economics (2022), 31 (1), 42-56.

This paper is recognized as a Top Cited Article 2021-2022 in Health Economics.

Media Coverage: EEA Congress Press, and VoxEU.org

Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability (with Jan C. van Ours)

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2020), 178, 44-58.

This project is supported by a research grant (75,000 euro) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), under their open data infrastructure for social science and economic innovations program (ODISSEI).

Media Coverage: VoxEU.org, and interview with VoxTalks

Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different? (with Jan C. van Ours)

Demography (2018), 55 (6), 2299-2320.

Media Coverage: Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Daily), VoxEU.org, and What Works Centre for Wellbeing

Application of Data Mining in the Analysis of Insurance Claim Settlements (with Xi Chen, Di'an Li, Xing Gao and Ben-Chang Shia; In Chinese)

统计与决策 Statistics and Decision (2010), 4, 154-158.

Book Chapters

Happiness and Partnerships (with Jan C. van Ours)

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (2021), Zimmermann K.F. (eds). Springer, Cham.

Media Coverage: Research Luxembourg

Policy Reports

Economic Effects of Covid-19 in Luxembourg (with researchers from LISER, the University of Luxembourg and STATEC)