Working Paper:
“Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration”, with Mushfiq Mobarak, Xuwen Gao and Wenquan Liang.
“The Labor Market Consequences of Heat Exposure During Pregnancy ”, with Xuwen Gao, Christopher Timmins, and Fang Xia. NBER Working Paper (No. w31684).
“Can Return Migration Reshape Environmental Preferences? Evidence from the Great Recession in China”, with Yifan Zhang and Zhonghui Luo.
“From Missing Girls to Missing Boys: A Partial Feedback Loop between Gender Ratio Imbalance and Pollution”, with Shang-jin Wei
Publication:
“A Spatially Differentiated Water Pollution Policy Leads to Economic and Health Inequity", with Zhonghui Luo, Lala Ma and Rui Xie, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (39), 2025. (Last and corresponding author; author order follows conventions in the sciences)
“The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China”, with Gaurav Khanna, Wenquan Liang, and Mushfiq Mobarak. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(2), 2025, 184-224.
“Frictional Sorting: The Impacts of Dual Constraints on Mobility and Housing Supply in China ”, with Christopher Timmins and Wenquan Liang. International Economic Review, 65(4), 2024, 1747-1776.
“Information, Migration, and the Value of Clean Air”, with Xuwen Gao and Christopher Timmins. Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103079.
“The Fertility Consequences of Air Pollution in China ”, with Xuwen Gao and Christopher Timmins. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11(3), 2024,657-88
“Living with Particles: Disclosure of Pollution Information, Individual Responses, and Health Consequences ”, with Yu Shen and Xinjie Shi. Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 102824.
“Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China”, with Christopher Timmins, Richard Freeman, and Wenquan Liang. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94 (March 1, 2019).
Selected Work in Progress:
“Global Diffusion of Clean Technology”, with Shanjun Li, Eric Zou, and Wei Xiang.