Working Papers

• "Cities with Invisible Walls: Labor Liberalization and Allocative Efficiency in China," (with Jingyi Fang)

   R&R at The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2026 

• "Non-Economic Attributes and Marriage Matching: An Analysis of China's Hukou Inheritance Reform," (with Liang Chen, Junsen Zhang, Yangyang Zhang), 2026

• "Aging in a Dual Economy: Urban Aging, Massive Migration, and Agricultural Development," (with Suqin Ge and Junsen Zhang), 2023

  R&R at Journal of Public Economics, 2026

• "Robots and Migrants: An Analysis of China’s Industrial Policy," (with Lijuan Cui, Yanyan Xiong, and Junsen Zhang), 2026

• No More Lethal Deportations: Institutional Barriers, Household Size, and Economic Development in China, (with Andrew D. Foster).  Draft available upon request. 

 Publications

• "The Long-run Impact of Early-life Adversity on Prosocial Behavior in China's 1959-1961 Great Famine" (with Jun Hyung Kim, Shaoda Vincent Wang, Junsen Zhang)

     Explorations in Economic History,  Volume 102, 101788, 2026.   [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix]

• "The Demographic Impact of Weather Disasters: Evidence from Extreme Rainfall Exposure in Rural China" (with Jinci Liu and Wenjie Tian)

    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,  249 (2026): 107695. [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix]

• "Investments and Innovation with Non-Rival Inputs: Evidence from Chinese Artificial Intelligence Startups" (with Jian Xie)

   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2026. [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix][VoxDev]

• "Internal Migration and Labor Share: Theory and Evidence" (with Yang Yang, Qi Yu, and Junsen Zhang) 

   Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, 2026. [Publisher] [PDF]

• "Endogenous Migration Restrictions and Population Aging in China" (with Zhu Chen and Jipeng Zhang)

   Journal of Development Economics, (2025): 103674.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix]

• "Stepping Down from Life-long Posts: Layoffs, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Urban China" (with Jian Xie and Junsen Zhang)

  Journal of Labor Economics,  forthcoming, 2024. [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix]

• "Quota Removal, Destination-specific Export Shocks, and Skill Acquisition in China" (with Junsen Zhang)

  Journal of Development Economics, 165 (2023): 103149.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix][VoxChina]

• "Trade Normalization, Export Quality, and In-migration of Skilled Workers: Evidence from China" (with Junsen Zhang)

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 184 (2021): 375-387.  [Publisher] [PDF]