Working Papers

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Home, Sweet Home? The Spatial Consequences of Return Migration

• Joint with Chi Zhang and Jipeng Zhang
• Latest version

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Vital Links, Divided Gains

• Joint with Jing Li, Xiao Lin Ong, Wei Yan, and Junjian Yi
• Latest version

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The Aggregate Welfare and Trade Implications of Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing​

• Joint with Davin Chor
• Latest version, Ungated version

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Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration

• Joint with Yuan Mei, Qunfeng Wu, and Mingzhi Xu
• Latest version

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Published Papers

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​The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Networks in China, Journal of International Economics, 2024

• Joint with Yang Tang       
• Published version, Final working paper version
• Replication Code and Data, BibTeX
• Transportation Networks of China Datasets (Github)

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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

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Growth and Risk: A View from International Trade, Journal of International Economics, 2023

• Joint with Pravin Krishna, Andrei Levchenko, and William Maloney
• Published version, Final working paper version
• Code and Data, BibTeX​​

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The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies, International Economic Review, 2022

• Joint with Gil Shapira, Damien de Walque, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman, and Andrei Levchenko
• Published version, Final working paper version
• Code and Data, BibTeX
• Media coverage: ResearchPod (podcast), The Economist, World Bank Development Blog, Voxeu.org, Der Spiegel (in German), Ideas for India.

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​JUE Insight: Migration, Transportation Infrastructure, and the Spatial Transmission of COVID-19 in China , Journal of Urban Economics, 2022

• Joint with Bingjing Li     
• Published version, Final working paper version
• Code and Data, BibTeX

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​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

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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

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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

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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

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Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2016

• Joint with Rudi Bachmann
• Published version​, Final working paper version
• ​Code and Data, BibTeX

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