Research

Working Papers:

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

1. "The Value of Unemployment Insurance: Liquidity v.s. Insurance Value"  (with Victor Hernandez)  2021 Young Economist Award by the EEA 

2. "Estimating Duration Dependence on Re-employment Wages when Reservation Wages are Binding"  (with Victor Hernandez and Richard Grice)

3. "Who Stay Unemployed Longer and the Failure of Machine Learning Predictions"    (Draft Coming Soon) (with Victor Hernandez)

4. "Perks Or Penalties? Maternity Leave and Female Executives' Career" (with Yanghui Chen, Wei Luo, and Wei Lin) (Draft Coming Soon)

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)  

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

Work In Progress (These Are Works with Promissing Early Results):

1. "The Effect of Foreign-Aid Famine on Taxation Tools of  Developing Countries" (with Yuxiao Hu)

2. "Quantifying the Information Enchancement During Massive Protests: Evidence From BLM"

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

Work In Thoughts (These Are Works In My Mind, 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. Who are Defiers and Compliers? Evidence From Weibo and Policy Implementation