Research

Working Papers:

My Work on Public Economics (Unemployment Insurance, Active Labor Market Policies, Maternity Leave, etc):

1. "Estimating Duration Dependence on Re-employment Wages when Reservation Wages are Binding" (with Victor Hernandez and Richard Grice, Submitted) [pdf]

2. "Perks Or Penalties? Maternity Leave and Female Executives' Career" (with Yanghui Chen, Wei Luo, and Wei Lin, Draft Upon Request)

My Work on Political Economy and Cultural Economics:

1."Can Social Movements Induce Social and Economic Redistribution? Evidence From Medical Crowdfunding During BLM" (with Jiwei Zhou and Junda Wang, Submitted) [pdf]

2. "The Origin of New Fertility Norm: Role of Policy and Institution" (with Yuting Bai, Wei Lin, and Jiayi Wu, Draft Upon Request) 

Publications:

1. "The Value of Unemployment Insurance: Liquidity v.s. Insurance Value"  (with Victor Hernandez,  Labour Economics)

Work-in-Progress:

1.  "The Efficiency and Fairness of Active Labor Market Policies Under the World of Generous Unemployment Insurance"  (with Victor Hernandez, Draft Coming Soon)

2. "Teacher's Promotion Incentive, Effort and Students's Performance" (with Hanhan Chen and Sen Xue)

3. "Direct Evidence on Gender Identity Norm and Implications for Marriage Sorting" (with Junsen Zhang, David Ong, Zibin Huang, Qinyou Hu)

4. "Quantifying the Information Enhancement During Massive Protests: Evidence From BLM" 

Work-in-Thoughts ( Let's Chat!!!!):

1. Optimal Severance Pay and Unemployment Insurance Design: When Machine Learning Can Partially Solve the First-Best Problem

2. Family Policies on Gender Discrimination over the Past 20 Years of Chinese Online Job Platform

3. Social Welfare Programs and Protest Organization: Evidence from Minimum Wages

4. "The Modern Jihada: The Effect of NGO Culture Heritage Programme on Political Unrests and Conflicts" 

5. On CEPS Randomizations: How Much Information Are Correlated?