Working Papers
Bricks or Cash? Externality of Housing Upgrading in High-Density Cities (revise and resubmit at AEJ: Economic Policy)
- Joint with Sumit Agarwal, Ying Deng, Yi Fan, Qi Gao, and Jing Li
- Latest version
Vital Links, Divided Gains: How China's Transportation Boom Impacted Healthcare
- Joint with Jing Li, Wei Yan, and Junjian Yi
- Latest version
Home, Sweet Home? The Spatial Consequences of Return Migration (revise and resubmit at the Journal of International Economics)
- Joint with Chi Zhang and Jipeng Zhang
- Latest version
The Aggregate Welfare and Trade Implications of Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing
- Joint with Davin Chor
- Latest version, Ungated version
Published Papers
How Evolving Institutions Shaped China's Economic Geography? (forthcoming, Journal of Economic Geography)
- Joint with Wen-Tai Hsu and Jing Li
- Published version, Final working paper version
Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration (forthcoming, International Economic Review)
The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Networks in China, Journal of International Economics, 2024
Migration and Resource Misallocation in China, Journal of Development Economics, 2024
- Joint with Xiaolu Li and Yang Tang
- Published version, Final working paper version
- Code and Data, BibTeX
Growth and Risk: A View from International Trade, Journal of International Economics, 2023
The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies, International Economic Review, 2022
JUE Insight: Migration, Transportation Infrastructure, and the Spatial Transmission of COVID-19 in China , Journal of Urban Economics, 2022
Urbanization Policy and Economic Development: A Quantitative Analysis of China's Differential Hukou Reforms, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021
- Joint with Wen-Tai Hsu
- Published version, Final working paper version, Online Appendix, Slides
- Code and Data, BibTeX
- Media coverage: The Economist, Jiemian (in Chinese), Wall Street Journal
The Price Elasticity of African Elephant Poaching, World Bank Economic Review, 2021
- Joint with Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko, Julian Blanc, Tom Milliken, and Holly Dublin
- Published version, Final working paper version
- Code and Data, BibTeX
Globalization and Top Income Shares, Journal of International Economics, 2020
- Joint with Dimitrije Ruzic
- Published version, Final working paper version
- Code, BibTeX
- Media coverage: Briefing Papers, INSEAD Knowledge
Geography, Trade, and Internal Migration in China, Journal of Urban Economics, 2020
- Joint with Yang Tang
- Published version, Final working paper version
- Code and Data: Full Package, Maps and the Transportation Matrix Only, BibTeX
Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2016