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: VoxDev; 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 (in Chinese); CNPolitics (in Chinese).
Working Papers:
"Policy Experimentation in China: the Political Economy of Policy Learning" (with David Y. Yang)
"Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? Citizen Participation, Social Media, and Environmental Governance in China" (with Mark Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, and Bing Zhang)
"Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China" (with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Guojun He, and Qiong Zhang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
"Cognitive Distortions in Complex Decisions: Evidence from Centralized College Admission" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
"The Environmental and Economic Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers" (with Zenan Wang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
"When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal
"English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality: Evidence from 16 Million College Applicants in China" (with Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, and Kai Mu)
"Fiscal Competition and Coordination: Evidence from China"
"Buddha's Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Modernization in 20th Century China" (with Boxiao Zhang)
- Media Coverage: The Economist; CATO Research Brief; VoxDev; BFI; BFI China (in Chinese).
"Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? Citizen Participation, Social Media, and Environmental Governance in China" (with Mark Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, and Bing Zhang)
"Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China" (with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Guojun He, and Qiong Zhang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
"Cognitive Distortions in Complex Decisions: Evidence from Centralized College Admission" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
"The Environmental and Economic Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers" (with Zenan Wang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
"When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition" (with Ao Wang and Xiaoyang Ye)
Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal
"English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality: Evidence from 16 Million College Applicants in China" (with Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, and Kai Mu)
"Fiscal Competition and Coordination: Evidence from China"
"Buddha's Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Modernization in 20th Century China" (with Boxiao Zhang)
Selected Works in Progress:
"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)
"Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Prosperity" (with Ernest Liu, Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"Open Justice and Judicial Quality: Evidence from Courtroom Livestreaming in China" (with Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power: Evidence from Chernobyl" (with Alexey Makarin and Nancy Qian)
"Long Run Effects of Higher Education on Financial Outcomes" (with Hongbin Li, Yi Lu, and Binzhen Wu)
"Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Prosperity" (with Ernest Liu, Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"Open Justice and Judicial Quality: Evidence from Courtroom Livestreaming in China" (with Yi Lu and Wenwei Peng)
"The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power: Evidence from Chernobyl" (with Alexey Makarin and Nancy Qian)
"Long Run Effects of Higher Education on Financial Outcomes" (with Hongbin Li, Yi Lu, and Binzhen Wu)
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).