Research

I work on applied microeconomics using various methodological approaches (structural / reduced-form / survey design / applied econometrics).

Working Papers

"Structural Analysis of Xenophobia", (with Huan Deng) Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics

Structural / RCT project

"The Role of Media Bias on Xenophobia", (with Huan Deng), New!

Structural / RCT project

"Bounding Omitted Variable Bias Using Auxiliary Data with an Application to Estimate Neighborhood Effects"  [R package : bndovb]   Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

Reduced-form / Applied econometrics project 

Note : this paper subsumes my old working paper, "Neighborhood Effects on Intergenerational Cultural Transmission" 

"Identification and Estimation of a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model with Endogenous Time-Varying Unobservable States Using Proxies"  Revise and Resubmit at the Quantitative Economics

Applied econometrics / structural project

"Is Sex Ratio a Valid Distribution Factor in a Collective Model?" (with Toan Nguyen) Revise and Resubmit at the Labour Economics

Hypothesis testing based on a theory

"An Estimable General-Equilibrium Structural Model of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration" (October 2019) 

** note: I am currently preparing this draft. The data access for this project was not available for this project during the Pandemic and I regained the data access in July 2023

Structural project

Selected Work-in-progress

"Online Dating and Marriage Market "(with Aureo de Paula and Fangzhu Yang) [grant secured, third pilot completed, main survey completed]

"Caste Identity in India" (with Huan Deng, Chao Fu and Dhruv Sinha) [grant secured, fieldwork in preparation after a long break due to COVID situation in India]

"Law and Attitude" (with Qingyang Han, Yuanjun Ma, and Stephane Mechoulan) [grant secured, data access granted]