Publications:
"Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China" (with Guojun He and Bing Zhang)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135(4), pp.2135-2185
"Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?" (with Guojun He)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(4), pp 186-215.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135(4), pp.2135-2185
- Media Coverage: EPIC; EPIC China (in Chinese); NSFC (in Chinese).
"Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?" (with Guojun He)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(4), pp 186-215.
- Media Coverage: AEA Research Highlight; Financial Times (Chinese); CNPolitics (Chinese).
Working Papers:
"The Environmental and Economic Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers" (with Zenan Wang; 2020)
"Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China" (with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Guojun He, and Qiong Zhang; 2019)
"Religion and Motivated Cognition: When Ramadan Meets the College Entrance Exam" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye; 2018)
"Fiscal Competition and Coordination: Evidence from China" (2016, new version coming soon)
"Buddha's Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Modernization in 20th Century China" (with Boxiao Zhang; 2016)
"Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China" (with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Guojun He, and Qiong Zhang; 2019)
- Media Coverage: VoxChina
"Religion and Motivated Cognition: When Ramadan Meets the College Entrance Exam" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye; 2018)
"Fiscal Competition and Coordination: Evidence from China" (2016, new version coming soon)
"Buddha's Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Modernization in 20th Century China" (with Boxiao Zhang; 2016)
Selected Works in Progress:
"Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China" (with Mark Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, and Bing Zhang)
"The Selection and Making of Civil Servants: Evidence from China's College Graduate Civil Services Program" (with Guojun He, David Y. Yang, and Qiong Zhang)
"Failure of Backward Induction in the Field: Evidence from Chinese College Admissions" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
"Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Prosperity" (with Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"Policy Experimentation in China" (with David Y. Yang)
"The Selection and Making of Civil Servants: Evidence from China's College Graduate Civil Services Program" (with Guojun He, David Y. Yang, and Qiong Zhang)
"Failure of Backward Induction in the Field: Evidence from Chinese College Admissions" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
"Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Prosperity" (with Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"Policy Experimentation in China" (with David Y. Yang)
Other Writings:
"Capturing the Transformation Rent: Lessons from Mexico and China" with Alain de Janvry, Policy Brief Ferdi B112, July 2015.
"How Does the Auction of License Plates Affect the Trade of Auto in Shanghai?" Statistical Research (in Chinese), with Boxiao Zhang, V30(3): 78-85, 2013.
"Why Have Some Local Governments Closed More Rural Schools than Others?" with Yanqing Ding and Xiaoyang Ye, China Economics of Education Review (in Chinese), 2016, 1(4): 3-34.
"How Does the Auction of License Plates Affect the Trade of Auto in Shanghai?" Statistical Research (in Chinese), with Boxiao Zhang, V30(3): 78-85, 2013.
"Why Have Some Local Governments Closed More Rural Schools than Others?" with Yanqing Ding and Xiaoyang Ye, China Economics of Education Review (in Chinese), 2016, 1(4): 3-34.
- Media Coverage: Xinhua Digest (in Chinese).