Publications

Do Consumers Distinguish Fixed Cost from Variable Cost? "Schmeduling" in Two-Part Tariffs in Energy 

(with Koichiro Ito) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, conditionally accepted.

Bitcoin and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from Daily Production Decisions

(with Anna Papp and Douglas Almond) Journal of Public Economics, November 2023.

Carbon Trading Pilot Programs in China and Local Air Quality 

(with Douglas Almond)  AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021.

Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China's COVID-19 Lock-down 

(with Douglas Almond, Xinming Du and Valerie Karplus)  AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021.

Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China 

(with Koichiro Ito)  Journal of Political Economy, Lead Article, May 2020.

Land Reform and Sex Selection in China 

(with Douglas Almond and Hongbin Li)  Journal of Political Economy, April 2019.

The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability 

(with Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Xiao Yu Wang)  Journal of Development Economics, September 2019.

Quantifying Coal Power Plant Responses to Tighter SO2 Emissions Standards in China 

(with Valerie Karplus and Douglas Almond)  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2018.

The Effects of High School Closure on Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China  

Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2018.

Select on-going work

Evaluating China's National Carbon Trading Scheme (with Douglas Almond)

Microclimate Risks and Urban Businesses  (with Jianwei Xing, Kangkai Wang, Hua Zhang and Eric Zou)

Improved Environmental Inspections in China and Their Effects (with Douglas Almond)

Dynamic Pricing of Electricity and Demand for EVs (with Koichiro Ito)

Press coverage

Berkeley Energy Institute Blog (by Maximilian Auffhammer): "Saving Coal - One Bitcoin at a Time"

Wall Street Journal, "How Much Chinese Are Willing to Pay for Cleaner Air?"

Bloomberg, "Price of Cleaner Air in China? $213 for Five Years, Study Shows"

Brookings Op-Ed (by Kaushik Basu), "Pollution by the numbers"

MIT News, "Checking China's Pollution, by Satellite"

South China Morning Post, "Some good news on China’s air pollution fight, but it comes with a warning"

The Economist, "Fudge-ocracy"