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Working Papers

2018

1. From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-based Parenting Intervention through China’s Family Planning Cadres
   Working Papers of Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven
   Also in Working Papers of LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance (2018) View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China’s Family Planning Cadres, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2021) View citations (15) (2021)
2. Ordeal Mechanisms, Information, and the Cost-Effectiveness of Subsidies: Evidence from Subsidized Eyeglasses in Rural China
   Papers, arXiv.org

2015

3. Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms among Children and Adolescents in Rural China: A Large-Scale Epidemiological Study
   IJERPH, 2022, 19, (9), 1-16 View citations (2)
2. Explaining the declining utilization of village clinics in rural China over time: A decomposition approach
   Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 301, (C) View citations (2)
3. Ordeal mechanisms, information, and the cost-effectiveness of strategies to provide subsidized eyeglasses
   Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, (C) View citations (4)
4. Passive versus active service delivery: Comparing the effects of two parenting interventions on early cognitive development in rural China
   World Development, 2022, 149, (C) View citations (6)

2021

5. Comparing the Quality of Primary Care between Public and Private Providers in Urban China: A Standardized Patient Study
   IJERPH, 2021, 18, (10), 1-16 View citations (2)
6. Early Childhood Reading in Rural China and Obstacles to Caregiver Investment in Young Children: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
   IJERPH, 2021, 18, (4), 1-27 View citations (1)
7. From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China’s Family Planning Cadres
   The Economic Journal, 2021, 131, (635), 1365-1400 View citations (15)
   See also Working Paper From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-based Parenting Intervention through China’s Family Planning Cadres, Working Papers of Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven (2018) (2018)
8. Health, economic, and social implications of COVID‐19 for China's rural population
   Agricultural Economics, 2021, 52, (3), 495-504 View citations (3)
9. Improving learning by improving vision: evidence from two randomized controlled trials of providing vision care in China
   Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2021, 13, (1), 1-26 View citations (4)
10. Publishing and assessing the research of economists: Lessons from public health
    China Economic Review, 2021, 66, (C) View citations (1)

2020

11. Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like Ceos? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, (1), 165-201 View citations (2)
12. Market competition and demand for skills in a credence goods market: Evidence from face-to-face and web-based non-physician clinician training in rural China
    PLOS ONE, 2020, 15, (6), 1-17
13. Parental Migration and Early Childhood Development in Rural China
    Demography, 2020, 57, (2), 403-422 View citations (28)
14. Seeing Is Believing: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Eyeglasses on Academic Performance, Aspirations, and Dropout among Junior High School Students in Rural China
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68, (2), 335 - 355 View citations (6)
15. The impact of pay-for-percentile incentive on low-achieving students in rural China
    Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, (C) View citations (2)
16. “At three years of age, we can see the future”: Cognitive skills and the life cycle of rural Chinese children
    Demographic Research, 2020, 43, (7), 169-182 View citations (1)

2019

17. Pay by Design: Teacher Performance Pay Design and the Distribution of Student Achievement
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37, (3), 621 - 662 View citations (15)
18. Using community health workers to deliver a scalable integrated parenting program in rural China: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
    Social Science & Medicine, 2019, 239, (C) View citations (8)

2018

19. Contract teachers and student achievement in rural China: evidence from class fixed effects
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018, 62, (2), 299-322 View citations (3)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018, 62, (2) (2018) View citations (1)
20. The Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Urban Migrant Clinics in China
    IJERPH, 2018, 15, (9), 1-15

2016

21. Impact of text message reminders on caregivers' adherence to a home fortification program against child anemia in rural western China: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
    American Journal of Public Health, 2016, 106, (7), 1256-1262 View citations (2)

2015

22. The Han-Minority Achievement Gap, Language, and Returns to Schools in Rural China
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63, (2), 319 - 359 View citations (11)

2013

23. Do you get what you pay for with school-based health programs? Evidence from a child nutrition experiment in rural China
    Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, (C), 1-12 View citations (8)

2012

24. Effectiveness of provider incentives for anaemia reduction in rural China: a cluster randomised trial
    EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2012, 345, 1-10 View citations (52)