Working Papers
The Long and Short-Run Spatial Impacts of Trade
- Joint with Yunlong Song and Yang Tang
- Latest version
Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare
- Joint with Davin Chor
- Latest version
A Tale of Two Tails: Wage Inequality and City Size
- Joint with Yang Tang
- Latest version
Pirates of Somalia: Crime and Deterrence on the High Seas
- Joint with Quy-Toan Do and Claudia Ruiz
- Latest version
Published Papers
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