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. Biting the Hand That Teaches: Unraveling the Economic Impact of Banning Private Tutoring in China, with Yinan Liu, Mingming Ma and Leo Y. Yang, Journal of Comparative Economics, July 2025 [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
4. 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, 世界经济 2025(6) [PDF]
Working Papers (Under Revision)
1. 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] [SSRN]
2. 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]
3. Foreign Direct Investment and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China, with Jianpeng Deng, Qing Shi, and Xin Zhao (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization) [PDF] [SSRN]
4. Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market, with Min Fang, Yushi Wang, and Alan Yu Yang (Accepted at PHBS-IER 2025 Conference, Considered for International Economic Review, December 2026) [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]
5. 中国“虎爸虎妈”的社会经济动因——教育回报、收入差距与父母的教养方式选择, 合作者：刘亚淇，吴贾，宋月萍，世界经济返修
Working Papers (With Manuscript)
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. 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]
3. Pandemic, Parental Migration, and Education Inequality: Evidence from Rural China,
with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, and Junsen Zhang [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]
4. Defensive Innovation: US-China Trade War and College Major Choice, with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Lei Li, and Mengyuan Wang [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]
5. Growing without Divergence: The Impact of Innovation on Low- and High-skilled Migration in China, with Suqin Ge, Naijia Guo, Junsen Zhang, and Li Zhang [PDF] [SSRN]
Selected Work In Progress
1. Government Finance and Worker Migration across U.S. States
with Minjie Deng, Min Fang, and Chang Liu
2. Hukou Restriction, Female Migration, and Service Sector Growth in China
with Naijia Guo, Ming Lu, Xican Xi, and Yuejun Zhong