Research
Journal Publications
“Worker Experience and Donor Heterogeneity: The Impact of Charitable Workers on Donors’ Blood Donation Decisions”, (with Lin, W. and Sun T.), 2023 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming
“Estimating the Demand Spillover Effect of Inventory Stockouts in a Fashion Footwear Retail Setting” (with Songtao Li, Lauren Lu and Simin Huang), 2022, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted
"Are Firms with 'Deep Pockets' More Responsive to Tort Liability? Evidence from Nursing Homes" (with Jim Brickley and Gerard Wedig), 2022, Health Economics, forthcoming
"Medicare Payment to Skilled Nursing Facilities: the Consequences of the Three-day Rule"(with Ginger Jin and Ajin Lee), 2021, Management Science, forthcoming
"Does Nonprofit Ownership Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Ownership Conversions of Nursing Homes" (with Lauren Lu), 2021, Management Science, forthcoming
"The Value of Health IT Interoperability in Care Coordination: Evidence from Inter-hospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients" (with Yao Li, Lauren Lu and Jian Chen) , 2021, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming
"Does Competition Improve Service Quality? The Case of Nursing Homes where Public and Private Payers Coexist" (with Konstantinos Serfes, Gerard Wedig and Bingxiao Wu), 2020, Management Science, forthcoming
"Five-Star Ratings and Managerial Turnover:Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry" (with Jim Brickley and Gerard Wedig), 2020, Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations, forthcoming
"Does Telemedicine Reduce Emergency Room Congestion? Evidence from New York State" (with Huaxia Rui and Shujing Sun), 2019, Information Systems Research, 31(3), 972-986
"Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship" (with Josh Angrist, Pierre Azoulay, Glenn Ellison, Ryan Hill), NBER working paper #23698, 2020, Journal of Economics Literature, 58(1), 3-52, lead article
"The Reverse Matthew Effect: Consequences of Retraction in Scientific Teams" (with Ginger Jin, Ben Jones and Brian Uzzi), NBER working paper #19489, 2019, Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(3), 492-506
"Body Mass Index and 30-day Adverse outcomes among Newly Admitted Residents to Skilled Nursing Facilities" (with Ning Zhang, Yanhua Zhou, Bo Zhang, Sybil Crawford and Jerry H. Gurwitz), 2019, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 20(3), 312-316.
"Toward a More Scientific Science: Retraction and Reputation" (with Ginger Jin), 2018, Science, 361(6408), 1194-1197
"Does Technology Substitute for Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes" (with Huaxia Rui and Avi Seidmann), 2018, Management Science, 64(4), 1842-1859
"Body Mass Index, Fall, and Hip Fractures among Nursing Home Residents" (with Ning Zhang,Yanhua Zhou, Bo Zhang, Laurel Copeland and Jerry Gurwitz), 2018, Journal of Gerontology: Series A (impact factor 5.957), 73(10), 1403-1409
"Can We Trust Online Physician Ratings? Evidence from Cardiac Surgeons in Florida" (with Huaxia Rui), 2018, Management Science, 64(6), 2557-2573
"Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Paraplegia: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting?” (with Xuming Dai, Lauren Lu and Sidney Smith), 2018, JACC: Cardiovascular Intervention (impact factor 8.841),11(4), pS8-S9
"Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Paraplegia:Characteristics, Management and Outcomes” (with Lauren Lu, Sidney Smith and Xuming Dai), 2018, American Journal of Medicine (impact factor 5.550), 131(5), 574.e1-574.e11
"Distance, Quality or Relationship? Interhospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients" (with Lauren Lu), 2018, Production and Operations Management, 27(12), 2551-2269
"Economic Research Evolves: Fields and Styles"(with Josh Angrist, Pierre Azoulay, Glenn Ellison, Ryan Hill), 2017, American Economic Review:Papers and Proceedings, 107(5), p293-297
"Malpractice Laws and Incentives to Shield Assets: Evidence from Nursing Homes" (with Jim Brickley and Gerard Wedig), 2017, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 14(2),301-332
"Does Mandatory Overtime Law Improve Quality?Staffing Decisions and Operational Flexibility of Nursing Homes" (with Lauren Lu), 2017, Management Science, 63(11), 3566-3585
"The Role of Donations in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from Nonprofit Nursing Homes", 2016, American Journal of Health Economics, 2(4), 431-462
"Solving Shortage in a Priceless Market: Insights from Blood Donation" (with Tianshu Sun and Ginger Jin), 2016, Journal of Health Economics, Vol 48, p149-165
"Health Information Technologies: Which Nursing Homes Adopted Them?" (with Ning Zhang, Biao Xu, Bingxiao Wu, Rosa Rodriguez-Moguio, Jerry Gurwitz), 2016, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(5), 441-447
"The Retraction Penalty: Evidence from the Web of Science" (with Ginger Jin, Ben Jones and Brian Uzzi), 2013, Nature Scientific Reports, 3(3146)
"Clustering, Agency Costs and Operating Efficiency: Evidence from Nursing Home Chains" (with Gerard Wedig), 2013, Management Science, 59(3), 677-694
"Profiting from Gaizhi: Management Buyouts during China's Privatization"(with David Dranove), 2013, Journal of Comparative Economics, 41(2), 634-650
"Multitasking, Information Disclosure, and Product Quality: Evidence from Nursing Homes", 2012, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 21(3), 673-705
"The Effectiveness of Law, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in an Economy of Financial Repression:Evidence from China"(with Yang Yao), 2009, World Development, 37(4), 763-777
Working Papers
"Tort Reform, Chaining and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry", (with Jim Brickley and Gerard Wedig)
"Do Social Media Trump Government Report Cards in Influencing Consumer Choice? Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes" (with Yuanchen Li and Lauren Lu)
"What Can Online Personal Statements Tell Us? Insights about Physicians’ Personality Traits and Their Medical Performance”, (with Jianing Ding and Karthik Kannan)
“Why Do Women Struggle to Climb the Corporate Ladder? Evidence from Retail Frontline Managers” (with Ruoran Chen, Lauren Lu and Simin Huang)