Selected Publication 

1. "From Heat to High-Tech: How Innovation Responds to Climate Change" (2025), with Zhiqiang Wang, Journal of Development Economics. 103525. 

2. "China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: A General Equilibrium Assessment" (2025), with Lawrence Goulder, Chenfei Qu, and Da Zhang, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming. 

   • Media: VoxChina

3. "Is Broader Trading Welfare Improving for Emission Trading Systems?" (2025), with Nicolas Astier and Da Zhang, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130, 103110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103110 

4. "Carbon Emission Trading Systems: A Review of Systems Across the Globe and a Close Look at China’s National Approach." (2023), with Lawrence Goulder, China Economic Journal, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2023.2246714 

5. "China's Unconventional Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: Cost-effectiveness and Distributional Impacts" (2022), with Lawrence Goulder, Jieyi Lu and Richard Morgenstern, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 111: 102561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102561 

6. "Does legislation improvement alleviate the decoupling between welfare and wealth in China?" (2022), with Xi Ji, Guowei Wu, Pinyi Su, and Xuanyuan Luo, Ecological Economics 201: 107592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107592 

7. "Impacts of a Carbon Tax Across U.S. Household Income Groups: What Are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-offs?" (2019), with Lawrence Goulder, Marc Hafstead, and GyuRim Kim, Journal of Public Economics 175: 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.04.002 

   • Atkinson Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics between 2018-2020. 

   • Media: Resources for the Future (RFF), Environment for Development (EfD)

8. "Economic Growth Quality, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Welfare in China: Provincial Assessment Based on Genuine Progress Indicator" (2019), with Xi Ji, Ecological Economics 159: 157-176.

9. "A Review of the Ecological and Socioeconomic Effects of Biofuel and Energy Policy Recommendations" (2016), with Xi Ji, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 61: 41-52.