Selected Publications

Economics

1. Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Temale Time Use: Evidence from India’s Pink Slip Program

with Kerem Cosar, Devaki Ghose, Sheetal Sekhri, and Shirish Mahendru. The Economic Journal, forthcoming.

[NBER WP]

2. Digitalization as a Double-Edged Sword: Winning Services and Losing Manufacturing in India

Journal of Development Economics, 2026. 

[Appendix] [Media: Ideas for India (Hindi), Substack]

3. How Do Political Connections of Firms Matter During an Economic Crisis?

with Gaurav Chiplunkar, Sheetal Sekhri, Anirban Sen, and Aaditeshwar Seth. Journal of Development Economics, 2025.

[Appendix] [Media: Ideas for India, VoxDev]

4. Does the Gig Economy Discriminate Against Women? Evidence from Physicians in China

Journal of Development Economics, 2024.

 [Appendix] [Media: VoxDev, 劳动经济学与社保研究, 香樟经济学术圈]

Typo correction: The estimated coefficient in column 1 of Panel A of Table 3 should be "-0.023*", not "-0.023***".

5. The Impact of COVID-19 Containment Lockdowns on MSMEs in India and Resilience of Exporting Firms

with Sisir Debnath, Sheetal Sekhri, and Vishal Sekhri. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023

Interdisciplinary Health Research

6. Chen, Y., Xu, L., Jiang, W., & Fields, N. L. (2026). Staffing of Qualified Social Workers and Nursing Home Quality of Care. JAMA Network Open, 9(2), e260074.

7. Chen, Y., Kim, J., Chow, T. G., Hong, A. S., Liao, J. M., & Xie, L. (2026). Association between Asthma and Dementia Across Age Groups. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 14(3), 715-717.e1. [Media: Healio]

Working Papers

1. Forecast-Triggered Cash Transfers and Adaptation to Extreme Heat: Evidence from Gig Workers

with Md Amzad Hossain and Sheetal Sekhri

Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

[Media: Ideas for India (Hindi)]

2. Credit Crisis and Strategic Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from Micro-Finance Regulation in India [Submitted]

with Md Amzad Hossain and Sheetal Sekhri

3. Cash Transfers, Liquidity Constraints, and Productive Investment under Climate Risk [Submitted]

with Sabina Yasmin, Sheetal Sekhri, Poonam Tripathi, and Sankha Mitra

Works in Progress

1. Scorching Streets: Heatwaves and Gig Workers in India

with Sheetal Sekhri

2. On the Supply Side of AI: Higher-Education Investments and the Distribution of Labor-Market Returns

with Sheetal Sekhri

3. Historical Roots of Gender Equity

with Yiyu Xing (UCLA)

Other Publications

1. Chen, Y., & Jiang, W. (2026). Consumer bias, provider visibility, and ranking algorithms on online platforms. International Review of Economics & Finance, 105642.

2. Chen, Y., Miller, A. R., Segal, C., & Spencer, M. K. (2025). Effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence in the United States. In Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19 (pp. 88-104). Edward Elgar Publishing. [NBER WP] 

3. Xie, L., Tang, Y., Felix-George, R. Il, Joo, J. H., Chen, Y., Rivera-Sanchez, Y., & Liao, J. M. (2025). Factors Associated with Cost Barriers to Asthma Management by Insurance Coverage Status Among U.S. Adults. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 13(6), 1412-1420 [Media: Medscape]

4. Padula, W. V., Chen, Y., & Santamaria, N. (2019). Five‐layer border dressings as part of a quality improvement bundle to prevent pressure injuries in US skilled nursing facilities and Australian nursing homes: a cost‐effectiveness analysis. International Wound Journal, 16(6), 1263-1272.