Publications
In Economics:
Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization.
Accepted, Journal of International Economics.
with Yatang Lin, Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang. (Draft available upon request).
(Presented at the Trade and Uneven Development Conference in World Bank)
Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing Dynasty.
Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 1-38.
with Yu Bai and Yanjun Li. Link
In Science and Policy:
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States.
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 28, April, 2025.
with Chen Zhang, Shouzhi Xia. Link
Let the facts speak, not the pictures: an experimental survey on rape narratives.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(13/14), 295-306, 2023.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci. Link
Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.
JAMA Network Open, 6(10), 2023.
with Emma Zang, Dieyi Chen, Riyang Liu, Kai Chen. Link
• Selected Media Coverage: World Economic Forum
Choosing the right COVID-19 indicator: crude mortality, case fatality, and infection fatality rates influence policy preferences, behaviour, and understanding.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022, 9(1), 1-8.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci, Yu Bai. Link
Why do unemployed people avoid participation in training? An experiment for policy making.
Social Policy & Administration, 2020, 54.7: 1231-1245.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci. Link
Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization.
Accepted, Journal of International Economics.
with Yatang Lin, Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang. (Draft available upon request).
(Presented at the Trade and Uneven Development Conference in World Bank)
Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing Dynasty.
Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 1-38.
with Yu Bai and Yanjun Li. Link
In Science and Policy:
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States.
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 28, April, 2025.
with Chen Zhang, Shouzhi Xia. Link
Let the facts speak, not the pictures: an experimental survey on rape narratives.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(13/14), 295-306, 2023.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci. Link
Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.
JAMA Network Open, 6(10), 2023.
with Emma Zang, Dieyi Chen, Riyang Liu, Kai Chen. Link
• Selected Media Coverage: World Economic Forum
Choosing the right COVID-19 indicator: crude mortality, case fatality, and infection fatality rates influence policy preferences, behaviour, and understanding.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022, 9(1), 1-8.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci, Yu Bai. Link
Why do unemployed people avoid participation in training? An experiment for policy making.
Social Policy & Administration, 2020, 54.7: 1231-1245.
with Chiara Natalie Focacci. Link
Working Papers
Locusts fly, Babies die. Desert Locusts and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Countries.
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.
with Guojun He. Link
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.
with Guojun He. Link
Effects of Locust Swarm Plague on Human Capital Accumulations: Evidence from Burkina Faso.
Submitted.
with Yu Bai, Guojun He, Yanjun Li .
The Dammed Gender? Dams, Groundwater, and Female Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Submitted.
with Yabin Yin, Li Han.
Submitted.
with Yu Bai, Guojun He, Yanjun Li .
The Dammed Gender? Dams, Groundwater, and Female Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Submitted.
with Yabin Yin, Li Han.
The Heterogeneous Impact of Climate Change on Employment.
with Yuhang Pan, Fangyuan Peng, Mingjie Xu (Draft available upon request)
Maritime Disruptions and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices.
with Ngawang Dendup, Raja Rajendra Timilsina, Dil Rahut, Yanjun Li, Arief Ramayandi, Bambang Brodjonegoro ADBI Working Paper Link
with Yuhang Pan, Fangyuan Peng, Mingjie Xu (Draft available upon request)
Maritime Disruptions and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices.
with Ngawang Dendup, Raja Rajendra Timilsina, Dil Rahut, Yanjun Li, Arief Ramayandi, Bambang Brodjonegoro ADBI Working Paper Link
Male Mortality, Institutional Collapse, and Women’s Empowerment after the Khmer Rouge Cohort-by-location evidence from Cambodia.
With Yu Bai, Yanjun Li, Sixian Shu
(Will be presented at the GLO-Guangzhou-2026, co-organized by the Global Labor Organization (GLO), IESR Jinan University, and the Journal of Population Economics. Conference link)
With Yu Bai, Yanjun Li, Sixian Shu
(Will be presented at the GLO-Guangzhou-2026, co-organized by the Global Labor Organization (GLO), IESR Jinan University, and the Journal of Population Economics. Conference link)