Research


Selected Working Papers

Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization.
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of International Economics.
(Accepted in the Trade and Uneven Development Conference, co-organized by World Bank and the Journal of International Economics. Link to WB-JIE conference)
with Yatang Lin, Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang.  (Draft available upon request). 
Locusts fly, Babies die. Desert Locusts and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Countries.
Submitted.
with Guojun He. Link
Effects of Locust Swarm Plague on Human Capital Accumulations: Evidence from Burkina Faso.
with Yu Bai, Guojun He, Yanjun Li  (Draft available upon request
The Heterogeneous Impact of Climate Change on Employment.
Submitted.
with Yuhang Pan, Fangyuan Peng, Mingjie Xu  (Draft available upon request

Publications 

In Economics:
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