Working Papers

• The Unseen Harvest Down the River: Health Externalities of Bt Cotton (with Wei Luo)

• Industrial Water Pollution, Agricultural Productivity, and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from China (with Wangyang Lai, Tao Lin)

R&R at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

• Induced Innovation and Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Chinese Agriculture (with Zheng Zhong)

R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics

• Adaptation to Climate Change: New Evidence from US Agriculture (with Zimao Xiao)

R&R at Journal of Public Economics

• Modern Technology on Traditional Farms: The Impact of Electric Irrigation on Rural Farms in Early Twentieth-Century China (with Shiyu Bo, Cong Liu)

R&R at Journal of Economic History

Recent Publications

• Long-distance Water Infrastructure, Rural Development and Urban Growth: Evidence from China (with Wangyang Lai, Tao Lin)

Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, 146: 103736 [ungated WP]

• Climate Change, Cropland Adjustments, and Food Security: Evidence from China (with Zheng Zhong)

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167: 103245 [ungated WP]

• Extreme Heat and Rural Household Adaptation: Evidence from Northeast China (with Qu Tang)

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167: 103243 [ssrn WP][VoxDev]

• On Model Selection Criteria for Climate Change Impact Studies (with Bulat Gafarov, Dalia Ghanem, Todd Kuffner)

Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 239(1): 105511 [arXiv WP] [Stata ado]

• Differentiated Agricultural Sensitivity and Adaptability to Rising Temperatures across Regions and Sectors in China (with Xiaoguang Chen, Jing Gao)

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 119: 102801 [ungated WP]

• Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change through Growing Season Adjustments: Evidence from Corn in China (with Wei Xie)

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022, 104(1): 249-272  [ungated WP]

• Labor Reallocation as Adaptation (with Shuaizhang Feng)

Nature Climate Change, 2021, 11: 901-902

• Beyond Yield Response: Weather Shocks and Crop Abandonment (solo author)

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7(5): 901-932 [ungated WP]

• Climate Change and Adaptation in Agriculture: Evidence from US Cropping Patterns (solo author)

 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020, 101: 102306 [ungated WP] 

Book Chapter

• Climate Change and Migration (with Shuaizhang Feng)

In: Klaus Zimmermann ed. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020, Springer, Cham [ungated WP]

Resting Papers

• Sustained Technology-driven Yield Growth Can More Than Offset Warming Impacts on Agriculture (with Zimao Xiao)

• Utilizing Nature's Nurture? Lightning, Resource Windfall, and Agriculture