Working papers:

• Haste or Waste? The Role of Presale in Residential Housing, with Ziyang Chen, Maggie Hu and Qiyao Zhou, January 2024, NBER working paper #32013.

• Top-up design and Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Cardiac Stents, Nov. 2023, with Hsienming Lien and Xuezhen Tao, NBER working paper #28107.

• More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-commerce in China, Jul. 2014, with Hongbin Cai, Li-an Zhou and Chong Liu, NBER working paper #18961.

Publications:

• Peer Migration in China, December 2023, with Yuyu Chen and Yang Yue, NBER working paper #15671, forthcoming Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

  • A brief summary in Vox

• Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in Bike-Sharing, May 2021, with Guangyu Cao, Xi Weng and Li-an Zhou, NBER working paper #24938, RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2021, 52(4): 778-814.

  • Summary on Vox (11/9/2018)

• The Effects of Government Licensing on E-commerce: Evidence from Alibaba, Oct. 2020, with Zhentong Lu, Xiaolu Zhou and Chunxiao Li, NBER working paper #27884, accepted by the Journal of Law and Economics, special issue in memory of Harold Demsetz.

• Mobile Messaging for Offline Group Formation in Prosocial Activities: A Large Field Experiment, with Tianshu Sun and Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Management Science, June 2019, vol 65(6).

  • Best Paper (First Place), Conference on Information Systems and Economics (CIST) 2015.

• Solving Shortage in a Priceless Market: Insights from Blood Donation, with Tianshu Sun and Susan Feng Lu. Journal of Health Economics, July 2016, 48: 149-165. 

  • Coverage on Market Design Blog

• Love, Money and Parental Goods: Does Parental Matchmaking Matter? , joint with Fali Huang and Lixin Xu , Journal of Comparative Economics May 2017, 45(2): 224-245, in Special section: Symposium on Gary Becker and Family Economics.

  • Wall Street Journal Blog (2015-02-11), World Bank Blog (2015-2-13) qq.com (2015-2-16) marginalrevolution.com (2016-9-8)

• Seller Reputation: From Word-of-Mouth to Centralized Feedback, with Hongbin Cai, Li-an Zhou and Chong Liu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, May 2014, volume 34, page 51-65.

• Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China , with Yuyu Chen, Journal of Health Economics, January 2012, 1-14.

• The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality, with Yuyu Chen, Naresh Kumar , and Guang Shi, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66 (2013): 424-443.

  • Comment from freakeconomics.com

• Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China, with Yuyu Chen, Naresh Kumar, and Guang Shi, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Advances tier, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2012.

• Love and Money by Parental Matchmaking: Evidence from Urban Couples in China, with Fali Huang and Lixin Xu , American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings May 2012, 555-560.