Peer-Reviewed Publications
[1]Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regression (with E. Maasoumi & D. Zhang), Sociological Methods & Research, 54(4), 2025
[2]The Growth of Hispanic Entrepreneurship and Undocumented Immigrants (with C. Wang), Small Business Economics, 65(1), 163–189, 2025
[3]Geography and the European Marriage Pattern (with K. de Beurs & K. Harper), Research in Economic History, 38, 2025
[4]Baby Steps to Success: The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Children's Long-Term Outcomes in U.S. (with K. Regmi), Journal of Population Economics, 38(37), 2025
[5]BTW: A Non-Parametric Variance Stabilization Framework for Multimodal Model Integration (with J. Hou & X. Wang), Proc. on Findings of EMNLP'25, 2025
[6]Head Start Staff Well-being: Early Impact Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of a Holistic Wellness Intervention (with K.A. Kwon, T. Ford, D. Horm, H. Wang & others), Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2025
[7]How Policies Can Support and Sustain Early Childhood Educator Well-Being (with K.C. Gallagher, R. Ssentuuwa, A. Daro & D. Horm), Educating Young Children, Summer 2025
[8]Politician's Childhood Experience and Government Policies: Evidence from the Chinese Great Famine (with C. Li & J. Zhang), Journal of Comparative Economics, 76–92, 2024
[9]Maternity Leave (with K. Regmi), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2023
[10]A Nonparametric Non-classical Measurement Error Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility Elasticities (with Y. An & R. Xiao), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 40(1), 169–185, 2022
[11]Women's Potential Earnings Distributions (with E. Maasoumi), Advances in Econometrics, 229–252, 2022
[12]SNAP Participation, Diet Quality, and Obesity: Robust Evidence with Estimation Techniques without External Instrumental Variables (with S. Chen), Empirical Economics, 61, 1641–1667, 2021
[13]Higher-order Risk-Returns to Education (with D. Henderson & A.-C. Souto), Journal of Risk Analysis and Management, 13(11), 253, 2020
[14]The Politics of Environmental Enforcement: The Case of the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act (with P.G. Fredriksson), Empirical Economics, 58, 2020
[15]The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions (with E. Maasoumi), Journal of Political Economy, 127(5), 2019
[16]Hidden Group Patterns in Democracy Developments: Bayesian Inference for Grouped Heterogeneity (with J. Kim), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 34(6), 1016–1028, 2019
[17]Crime on the Field (with C. Kitchens & M. Makofske), Southern Economic Journal, 85(3), 821–864, 2019
[18]Informal Search, Bad Search?: The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in China (with Y. Chen & M. Zhang), Journal of Population Economics, 31(3), 837–876, 2018
[19]What Can We Learn About the Racial Gap in the Presence of Sample Selection? (with E. Maasoumi), Journal of Econometrics, 199(2), 117–130, 2017
[20]The Robust Relationship Between US Food Aid and Civil Conflict (with C.-Y. Chu & D.J. Henderson), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32(5), 1027–1032, 2017
[21]The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities (with D.J. Henderson & A. Houtenville), Journal of Labor Research, 38(3), 261–282, 2017
[22]The Three Is of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency (with D.J. Henderson & L. Simar), Applied Economics, 49(12), 1164–1184, 2017
[23]Knot Yet: Minimum Marriage Age Law, Marriage Delay, and Earnings (with C. Wang), Journal of Population Economics, 30, 771–804, 2017
[24]The Inequality-Growth Plateau (with D.J. Henderson & J. Qian), Economics Letters, 128, 17–20, 2015
[25]How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in China, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 75(3), 435–454, 2013
[26]Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective, Labour Economics, 21, 74–85, 2013
[27]Party Politics, Governors and Economic Policy (with P.G. Fredriksson & P.L. Warren), Southern Economic Journal, 80(1), 106–126, 2013
[28]Estimating Semiparametric Panel Data Models by Marginal Integration (with J. Qian), Journal of Econometrics, 167(2), 483–493, 2012
[29]Economic Transition and College Premium in Urban China, China Economic Review, 23(2), 238–252, 2012
[30]The Effects of 9/11 on Intermarriage between Natives and Immigrants to the U.S. (with C. Wang), Review of Economics of the Household, 10(2), 171–192, 2012
[31]The Oh-So Straight and Narrow Path: Can the Health Care Expenditure Curve Be Bent? (with B. Woodward), Health Economics, 21(8), 1023–1029, 2012
[32]Debts on Debts (with J.R. Faria & Z. Wu), North American Journal of Economics & Finance, 23(2), 203–219, 2012
[33]Do Central Banks Affect Tobin's q? (with J.R. Faria, A.V. Mollick & A. Sachsida), International Review of Economics & Finance, 22(1), 1–15, 2012
[34]Language Skills and the Earnings Distribution Among Immigrants (with C. Wang), Industrial Relations, 50(2), 297–322, 2011
[35]Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return (with D.J. Henderson & S. Polachek), Economics of Education Review, 30(6), 1202–1214, 2011
[36]Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some? (with D.L. Millimet), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 60(1), 155–195, 2011
[37]Sex and Environmental Policy in the U.S. House of Representatives (with P.G. Fredriksson), Economics Letters, 113(3), 228–230, 2011
[38]Are Politicians Office or Policy Motivated? The Case of U.S. Governors' Environmental Policies (with P.G. Fredriksson & K.A. Mamun), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62(2), 241–253, 2011
[39]Time Series Analysis of Income Convergence in China (with H. Liu), Applied Economics Letters, 17(1), 2010
[40]Economic Reform, Growth and Convergence in China (with E. Maasoumi), Econometrics Journal, 11(1), 128–154, 2008
[41]Fertility and the Health of Children: A Nonparametric Investigation (with D.J. Henderson, D.L. Millimet & C. Parmeter), Advances in Econometrics, 21, 167–195, 2008
[42]Is there a risk-return trade-off? Evidences from Chinese stock markets (with H. Liu & D. Kong), Frontiers of Economics in China, 3(1), 1–23, 2008
[43]Fertility and Employment Choice: A Differential Game Approach (with J. Faria), Economics Bulletin, 10(8), 1–8, 2007
[44]A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China (with D.L. Millimet), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 5(1), 2006
Under Revision
[60]R&RBeyond Common Support: An Iterative Approach to Identification and Estimation of Nonseparable Models with Endogeneity (with J. Zeng), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Work in Progress
[45]WIPSufficient Statistical Measures of Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Denmark (with S. Eshaghnia, J. Heckman & E. Maasoumi)
[46]WIPLove Has No Boundaries: Racial Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Mobility (with D. Xie)
[47]WIPEnvironmental Roots of Intergenerational Mobility (with D. Xie)
[48]WIPMaternity Leave and Child Health in India (with E. Asker & S. Dhongde)
[49]WIPThe Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: A Causal Machine Learning Approach (with C. Wang)
[50]WIPBorn to Lose: Daughters and Divorce (with D. Xie)
[51]WIPA Functional Quantile Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility (with P. Du & P. Sang)
[52]WIPSufficient Statistical Measures of Intergenerational Mobility (with E. Maasoumi)
[53]WIPEstimation and Testing in the Presence of an Invalid Instrumental Variable (with R. Fan)
[54]WIPPartially Linear Varying-Coefficient Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with Sample Selections (with K. Yan & S. Dhongde)
[55]WIPBreaking Parallel: A Nonparametric Difference-in-Differences Approach (with X. Xing)
[56]WIPA L-infinity Norm Counterfactual and Synthetic Control Approach (with Y. Ye & X. Xing)
[57]WIPTree-based Difference-in-Differences Approach
[58]WIPSIMAGENT: Towards Multi-Agent LLM for Real-World Stakeholder Debate Simulations without Ground Truth (with P. Pitre, L. Zhang, N. Ramakrishnan & X. Wang)
