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Publications

In English:​​

1. Migration, Housing Constraint, and Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis of China, with Min Fang, Labour Economics, October 2022, Volume 78: 102200    [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]

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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]

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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, December 2025, Volume 53, Issue 4     [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]​

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4. Place-based Land Policy and Spatial Misallocation: Theory and Evidence from China, 

with Min Fang, Libin Han, Ming Lu and  Li Zhang,  International Economic Review, October 2026, Volume 67, Issue 4: 1159-1182     [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN] [Supplementary Note]

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5. Foreign Direct Investment and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China, with Jianpeng Deng, Qing Shi, and Xin Zhao, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, June 2026, Volume 246: 107557    [PDF] [SSRN]

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6. Fertility, Child Gender, and Parental Migration Decision: Evidence from One Child Policy in China, with Lin Lin and Junsen Zhang, Forthcoming at Quantitative Economics     [PDF] [SSRN]   

7. Sex and the City: Demographics, Spatial Sorting, and the Marriage Market, with Min Fang, Yushi Wang, and Alan Yu Yang, Forthcoming at International Economic Review   [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]

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中文发表:

1. 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]

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2. 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:吴贾,刘亚淇,楚鹏飞,世界经济  2026年第7期   [PDF]

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3. 公民同招如何促进教育公平——基于上海市中考成绩的分析'', 合作者:王曼如,刘华聪,陈沁,教育发展研究,2026年第10期   [PDF]

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Working Papers (Under Revision)

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1. School Restrictions, Migration and Peer Effects: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Children's Human Capital in China, with Junsen Zhang, Revise and Resubmit at Quantitative Economics   [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]

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Working Papers (With Manuscript)​​​​

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1. Pandemic, Parental Migration, and Education Inequality: Evidence from Rural China, 

with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, and Junsen Zhang     [PDF] [Appendix] [SSRN]

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2. Technological Rivalry and the Allocation of Talent: Evidence from China's College Admission, with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Lei Li, and Mengyuan Wang     [PDF] [Slides] [SSRN]

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3. 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]

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4. Truncating the Tail: Wage Caps and the Human Capital Pipeline in Finance, with Qin Chen, Mengyuan Wang, and Wenjian Xu     [PDF] [SSRN]

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Selected Work In Progress

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1. Government Finance and Worker Migration across U.S. States

with Minjie Deng, Min Fang, and Chang Liu

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2. Hukou Restriction, Female Migration, and Service Sector Growth in China

with Naijia Guo, Ming Lu, Xican Xi, and Yuejun Zhong

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