Journal Publications

1.   Hsieh, Chih-Sheng and Xu Lin (2024), “Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social network," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 108, 104025.

2.    Lin, Xu and Wei Xiong (2023), “Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in China: Evidence from a Correlated Random Effect Model,” Journal of Labor Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-023-09352-7.

3.    Pilehvari, Asal, Wen You and Xu Lin (2023), “Retirement's Impact on Health: What Role does Social Network Play?” European Journal of Ageing, 20(1):14. doi: 10.1007/s10433-023-00759-w. PMID: 37162581; PMCID: PMC10172431.

4.    Lin, Xu, Jihu Zhang and Shanhe Jiang (2022), “Spatial and Temporal Correlations of Crime in Detroit: Evidence from Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models,” International Review of Law and Economics, Vol 72, 106100, DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2022.106100.

5.     Hsieh, Chih-Sheng and Xu Lin (2021), “Social Interactions and Social Preferences in Social Networks,” Journal of Applied Econometrics,  Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 163-270.

6.     Lin, Xu and Lizi  Wu (2021), “Interdependence among Mental Health Care Providers: Evidence from a Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Model with Interactive Fixed Effects,” The Annals of Regional Science,  67, pp.131–165.

7.     Hsieh, Chih-Sheng and Xu Lin (2017), “Gender and Racial Peer Effects with Endogenous Network Formation,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 67, pp. 135-147.

8.     Lin, Xu (2015), “Utilizing Spatial Autoregressive Models to Identify Peer Effects among Adolescents,” Empirical Economics, Vol. 49, Issue 3, pp. 929-960.

9.     Lin, Xu (2014), “Network Attributes and Peer Effects,” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 2060-2079.

10.     Lee, Lung-fei, Ji Li and Xu Lin (2014), “Binary Choice Models with Social Network under Heterogeneous Rational Expectations,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 96, Issue 3, pp. 402-417.

11.     Lin, Xu and Bruce Weinberg (2014), “Unrequited Friendship? How Reciprocity Mediates Adolescent Peer Effects,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 48, pp. 144-153.

12.     Lin, Xu (2014), “Peer Effects in Adolescents' Delinquent Behaviors: Evidence from a Binary Choice Network Model,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 73-92.

13.     Lin, Xu (2010), “Identifying Peer Effects in Student Academic Achievement by Spatial Autoregressive Models with Group Unobservables,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 825–860.  

14.     Lin, Xu and Lung-fei Lee (2010), “GMM Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Models with Unknown Heteroskedasticity,” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 157, pp. 34-52.

15.     Lee, Lung-fei, Xiaodong Liu and Xu Lin (2010), “Specification and Estimation of Social Interaction Models with Network Structures,” The Econometrics Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 145-176.

Book Chapters

1. Hsieh, Chih-Sheng, Xu Lin and Eleonora Patacchini (2020), “Social Interaction Methods,” in “Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics”, Klaus Zimmermann(Eds.), Springer Nature, in press.

2. Bai, Chong-En and Xu Lin (2008), “Capital Allocation, Regional Specialization and Spillover Effects in China,” published in “Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia”, companion volume to the “2009 World Development Report” , Yukon Huang and Alessandro Magnoli Bocch(Eds.), World Bank Publications, October 2008.

Selected Working Papers

1.     “Network Structure Effects” (with Chih-Sheng Hsieh).

2.     “Popular Peers' Effects” (with Bruce Weinberg).

3.     “Does friends’ gender matter for students’ academic performance?” (with He Jiang).

4.     “Dynamic Peer Effects in Student Academic Performance: Evidence from Random Roommate Assignment” (with   Jihu Zhang).

5.     “Social Learning in Enrollment Decisions for Social Pension Plan” (with He Jiang)