My research interests include Quantitative Spatial Economics and Macroeconomics. I am particularly interested in examining how national and regional policies — such as migration policy, housing policy, and transportation network upgrades — shape the spatial distribution of economic activities.
Working Papers
- Residency Rights, Migration, and the Housing Affordability Trade-off, with Carlos Garriga. Revise and resubmit, Journal of International Economics, June 2026.
- Housing Privatization as an Intergenerational Transfer, with Kaiji Chen and Hanming Fang.
Publications
- Within-job Wage Inequality: the Nexus between Performance Pay and Match Quality, with Rongsheng Tang and Ping Wang. Macroeconomic Dynamics, November 2025.
- Was China's Housing Boom a Bubble?, with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 106, No. 14, December 2024, pp. 1–15.
- The Aggregate and Distributional Impacts of Residence Policy Relaxation, with Rongsheng Tang and Rongjie Zhang. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 69, August 2024, pp. 343–376.
- A Tale of Two Policies: The Distributional Impacts of Migration and Land Policy in China, with Xiaolu Li. The Singapore Economic Review, Volume 69, Issue 03, June 2024, pp. 915–934.
- The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Networks in China, with Lin Ma. Journal of International Economics, Volume 148, March 2024, 103873.
- The Distributional Impacts of High-Speed Rail: Evidence from China, with Xiaolu Li. Economic Modelling, Volume 132, March 2024, 106640.
- Migration and Resource Misallocation in China, with Xiaolu Li and Lin Ma. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 167, March 2024, 103218.
- Rural-urban Migration, Structural Change and Housing Boom in China, with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023, 15(2), pp. 413–440.
- Market Formation in China from 1978, with Rongsheng Tang. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 95, July 2022, 103784.
- Rural-urban Migration, Structural Change and House Prices in China, with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 91, November 2021, 103613.
- Geography, Trade and Internal Migration in China, with Lin Ma. Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 115, January 2020.
- Bubbles and House Price Dispersion in the United States during 1975–2017, with Ting Zeng and Shenghao Zhu. Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 63, March 2020.
- When Natives Meet Immigrants in Public and Private Housing Markets, with Xiaolu Li. Journal of Housing Economics, 41, 2018, pp. 30–44.
- Reduced mRNA and Protein Expression Levels of Tet Methylcytosine Dioxygenase 3 in Endothelial Progenitor Cells of Patients of Type 2 Diabetes with Peripheral Artery Disease, with Guoxun Chen, Shi Zhao, et al. Frontiers in Immunology, December 2018, Volume 9.
- Public and Private Housing Markets Dynamics in Singapore: The Role of Fundamentals, with Wai-mun Chia and Mengling Li. Journal of Housing Economics, 36, 2017, pp. 44–61.
- Determinants of Urban Land Supply in China: Do Political Factors Matter?, with Wen-tai Hsu, Xiaolu Li and Jing Wu. Asian Development Review, 34(2), September 2017, pp. 152–183.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Union Membership without Collective Bargaining Benefits, with Soon-Beng Chew. Singapore Economic Review, Volume 61(3), June 2016.