Publications
1. Migration, Housing Constraint, and Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis of China, with Min Fang, Labour Economics, October 2022, Volume 78: 102200 [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
2. Fertility and Delayed Migration: How Son Preference Protects Young Girls against Mother-Child Separation, with Xu Jiang and Ang Sun, Journal of Development Economics, January 2024, Volume 166: 103191 [PDF]
3. 人口流动与县域高中发展：基于县级教育财政数据的实证研究，合作者：郭小琳，杨宇，张子哲，赵楠 (已接收，世界经济)
Working Papers
1. School Restrictions, Migration and Peer Effects: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Children's Human Capital in China, with Junsen Zhang [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]
2. Fertility, Child Gender, and Parental Migration Decision: Evidence from One Child Policy in China, with Lin Lin and Junsen Zhang (Revise and Resubmit at Quantitative Economics) [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
3. Place-based Land Policy and Spatial Misallocation: Theory and Evidence from China
with Min Fang, Libin Han, Ming Lu and Li Zhang (2nd Round Revise and Resubmit at International Economic Review) [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]
4. Biting the Hand That Teaches: Unraveling the Economic Impact of Banning Private Tutoring in China, with Yinan Liu, Mingming Ma and Leo Y. Yang (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Comparative Economics) [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
5. Place-based Land Policy and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China's Eastern-Inland Regional Border, with Min Fang, Libin Han, Ming Lu and Li Zhang [PDF] [SSRN]
6. Pandemic, Parental Migration, and Education Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, and Junsen Zhang [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]
7. Defensive Innovation: US-China Trade War and College Major Choice
with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Lei Li, and Mengyuan Wang [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
8. Foreign Direct Investment and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China
with Jianpeng Deng, Qing Shi, and Xin Zhao
Selected Work In Progress
1. What Do Alibaba Data Tell Us about Price and Quality in China?
with Mark Bils, Min Fang and Tianchen Song (Granted by Alibaba Huoshui Research Plan)
2. Offshoring of Jobs in Multinational Companies: Evidence from Online Job Postings in the U.S. and China
with Qin Chen, Lisa Kahn, Lindsay Oldenski and Geunyong Park
3. Effect of Technology on Migration and Social Welfare in China: A General Equilibrium Approach
with Suqin Ge, Naijia Guo, Junsen Zhang, and Li Zhang
4. Sex and the City: An Episode of China
with Min Fang, Yushi Wang, and Alan Yu Yang
5. Hukou Restriction, Female Migration, and Service Sector Growth in China
with Naijia Guo, Ming Lu, Xican Xi, and Yuejun Zhong