Research

My research interest includes health economics, development economics, and environmental economics.

Publications & Forthcomings

2024

1. Cover more for less: Targeted drug coverage, chronic disease management, and medical spending (with Julie Shi and Wanyu Yang).
   • Journal of Development Economics, November 2024.
2. The quiet revolution: The send-down movement and female empowerment in rural China (with Wenyi Lu and Chong Liu).
   • Journal of Development Economics, 2024 (235).
3. We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship, (with Zhenggang Wang and Zenan Wu).
   • Journal of Public Economics, Volume 235, July 2024, 105150.
4. Health benefits from improved air quality: Evidence from the pollution regulations in China’s “2+26” cities, (with Tingting Xie and Yong Wang).
   • Environmental and Resource Economics, Volume 87, pages 1175–1221, (2024).
5. Love, health and robots: Automation, Migration, and Family Responses in Rural China, (with Yaojing Wang and Ruini Zhu).
   • China Economic Review, 2024, (85): 102145.

2023

1. Early childhood SARS experience leads to long-lasting impacts on adulthood mental health in China, (with Litian Chen, Chao Yang, and Tingting Xie).
   • Scientific Reports, 2023, 13: 22572.
2. Air pollution kills competition: Evidence from ESports (with Jiawei Mo and Zenan Wu).
   • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, (122): 102886.
3. Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China (with Tingting Xie).
   • Journal of Development Economics, 2023 (164): 103139.
4. Information, Awareness, and Mental Health: Evidence from Pollution Disclosure in China, (with Tingting Xie and Hui Zhang).
   • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, (120): 102827.
5. The short- and long-run effects of medical malpractice lawsuits on medical spending and hospital operations in China, (with Gordon Liu, Junjian Yi, and Shaoyang Zhao).
   • Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51(4), pp.1142-1161.
6. The consequences of health shocks on households: Evidence from China (with Zhenjie Jin and Yajie Wang).
   • China Economic Review, (2023): 101969.

2022 and Earlier

1. Cost-effectiveness of medical migration for chronic kidney disease: A national study in China (with Yumeng Ao, Chao Yang, et al.).
   • BMC Health Service Research, (2022) 22:912.
2. Differential responses to market competition by private and public hospitals in China: a longitudinal analysis, (with Junjian Yi, and Shaoyang Zhao).
   • The Lancet, 2019 (394): S37.
3. The glorified mothers of sons: Evidence from sex composition and parental time allocation in rural China, (with Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang).
   • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018 (145), 249-260.
4. The dynamic effect of rural-to-urban migration on inequality in source villages: System GMM estimates from rural China, (with Wei Ha, Junjian Yi, and Junsen Zhang).
   • China Economic Review, 2016, Volume 37, pp 27-39.

Working papers

• The effect of information and streamlined appointments on patient sorting and hospital efficiency (with Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, and Junjian Yi)，1st R&R at Journal of Industrial Economics, received, 2 July 2024.
• A farmer’s odyssey in environmental adversity: Air pollution and rural agriculture in China (with Qunfeng Wu and Yakun Chen), under review.
• Keeping up with the Joneses: FDI inflow and local industrial emissions (with Jiawei Mo and Zhe Zhang), under review.
• Risk Attention and Insurance Demand (with Jiawei Mo, Ruo Jia, Chang Zhang), under review.
• Be Your Own Doctor: Learning by Doing in Healthcare (with Yajie Wang, Kamhon Kan, and Junjian Yi), under review.

Working in Progress

• Air pollution and quality of life
• Attention and disease management
• Media and policy
• Poverty alleviation and social well-being
• Intergenerational effect of public education
• Education and quality of life
• Distributional effect of public insurance
• Social insurance and agriculture
• Rain and strategic emissions

Conference presentations

• 2024 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2024, Hangzhou, China
• 2023 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, July 2023, Singapore
• 15th iHEA World Congress on Health Economics, July 2023, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2022 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2022, Shenzhen, China
• AASLE 2021 Conference, December 2021, Beijing, China
• 14th iHEA World Congress on Health Economics, July 2021, Online
• The Lancet-CAMS Health Summit, October 2019, Sichuan, China
• 13th iHEA World Congress on Health Economics, July 2019, Basel, Switzerland