Wenyi Lyu, Jian Yang & Leng Yu. (2025). Place-based policies, pro-competitive effects, and allocative efficiency: Evidence from China's economic zones. World Development, 191: 106971.
Wenyi Lyu, Leng Yu & Jiajun Zhang. (2024). Peer effects in digital inclusive finance participation decisions: Evidence from rural China. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 208: 123645.
Wenyi Lyu, Chenlu Hao & Leng Yu. (2026). Digital financial inclusion and entrepreneurship: A spatial analysis of rural China. Review of Development Economics, 30, no. 2: 1383–1399.
Chenlu Hao, Wenyi Lv & Leng Yu. (2023). Does digital financial inclusion benefit the low-wage workers and reduce inequality? Evidence from China general social survey. Applied Economics Letters, 1-11.
Population control and intra-household gender inequality: A structural analysis of resource shares. R&R in Journal of Human Resources.
Who Benefits from Public Data? Private Data Endowments, Market Power, and Welfare Effects. (with Jiajun Zhang) Drafts are available upon request.
Securing the old to protect the young: The impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on missing children. (with Qingen Gai) Drafts are available upon request.
Welfare implications of multi-level agricultural insurance schemes：A perspective on coverage levels and Ramsey pricing. ( with Chang Su, Yazhou Liu & Fujin Yi) presented at The CES 2026 North America Annual Conference.
Semiparametric tests for distinguishing spatial panel models (provisional title). (with Jiajun Zhang)
Who gains from the robot? Evidence on intra-household resource allocation under domestic automation. (with Hui Cao)
PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Public Data Opening and Resource Allocation Efficiency: Causal Identification, Theoretical Mechanisms, and Welfare Effects, 72604241, 2027/01-2029/12.