Research

Selected Working Papers

1. Amenity Provision and Gentrification: Evidence from the Atlanta BeltLine

2. The Geography of Agglomeration Forces (with Palak Suri and Yao Wang)

3. Fetal Pollution Exposure, Cognitive Ability, and Gender-specific Parental Investment (with Xin Zhang, Xingyi Hu, and Xi Chen, R&R, Journal of Public Economics) 

4. Short Video Posting Improves Mental Health for Rural Women (with Jiewei Li, Yanlu Sun, and Xin Zhang)

Publications

1. Steering and Spatial Mismatch (with Yao Wang and Tianyun Zhu), Journal of Housing Economics, 2026.

2. Evaluating the Coal-to-gas Policy in China: Heterogeneous Effects and Implications for Energy Transition, Environment and Development Economics, 2026. 

3. Evaluating the Impact of Road Infrastructure on Urban Expansion in China, The Annals of Regional Science, 2026.

4. The Impact of Differential Treatment by Race and Ethnicity on Diet Quality (with Benjamin Scharadin and Jill Clark), Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2025.

5. Associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China (with Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, and Xun Zhang), Science of The Total Environment, 2020.