Current work

• "On the Spatial Allocation of College Seats: Human Capital Production and the Distribution of Skilled Labor."  [PDF] [SSRN] [RePEc Archive]

• "Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban." (w/ Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang).  [PDF] [SSRN]

• "Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market." (w/ Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang). [PDF] [SSRN]

• "A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion." (w/ Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber). [PDF]

• "Intergenerational Mobility Effects of Regional Education and Migration Policy in China." (w/ Jonas Jin and Xiaoyang Ye). [PDF]

Publications

1. Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and the Competition for High-Income Men in Urban China. (w/ David Ong and Junsen Zhang). Journal of Development Economics (2020), 144, 102434.  [PDF]

2. Collaboration Incentives: Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials. (w/ David Ong, Ho Fai Chan, and Benno Torgler). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018), 147, 41-57.  [PDF]

[In Chinese]:

3. 人口流动与县域高中发展. (w/ 郭小琳、黄子彬、张子哲、赵楠). 世界经济 (2025), 48:6, 220-248.  [PDF]

(Population Migration and the Development of Rural High Schools.) [Extended abstract in English]

[Pre-doctoral work in international economics]:

4. China and International Market Integration: Evidence From the Law of One Price in the Middle East and Africa. (w/ Vinh Dang, Erin So, and Kenneth Chan).  North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2020), 54, 101127.  [PDF]

5. Yen or Yuan? The Law of One Price and Economic Integration in Asia. (w/ Vinh Dang and Kenneth Chan). The World Economy (2018), 41, 171–193.  [PDF]

6. Assessing Market Integration in the ASEAN with Retail Price Data. (w/ Vinh Dang). Pacific Economic Review (2017), 22:4, 510-532.  [PDF]