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Working Papers

2019

1. Insurance or abusive use of the law? Heterogeneous filing behavior in personal bankruptcy
   Working Papers, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University
2. Relocating or Redefined: A New Perspective on Urbanization in China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2016

3. Social capital, finance, and consumption: evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)

2015

4. Dual credit markets and household access to finance: evidence from a representative Chinese household survey
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
5. Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Impacts of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Healthcare Expenditures and Health Outcomes, Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2017) View citations (17) (2017)

2014

6. A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2014) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article A model to evaluate vehicle emission incentive policies in Japan, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer (2015) View citations (10) (2015)
7. Strategic or Non-Strategic: The Role of Financial Benefit in Bankruptcy
   WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS, University of Kansas, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article STRATEGIC OR NONSTRATEGIC: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL BENEFIT IN BANKRUPTCY, Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International (2015) View citations (5) (2015)

2013

8. Do People Overreact? Evidence from the Housing Market After the Wenchuan Earthquake
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
9. Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
10. Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2013) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article GROUP LENDING WITH HETEROGENEOUS TYPES, Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
11. Market Thickness and the Impact of Unemployment on Housing Market Outcomes
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Market thickness and the impact of unemployment on housing market outcomes, Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (5) (2018)
12. Multiple Dimensions of Private Information in Life Insurance Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2012

13. Personal Bankruptcy: Reconciling Adverse Events and Strategic Filing Hypotheses Using Heterogeneity in Filing Types
    WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS, University of Kansas, Department of Economics
    Also in WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS, University of Kansas, Department of Economics (2011)

2011

14. A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article A simple test for private information in insurance markets with heterogeneous insurance demand, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
15. CLIMATE CHANGE INFLUENCES ON THE RISK OF AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS AND ASSOCIATED ECONOMIC LOSS
    2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
16. Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Making Friends with Your Neighbors? Agglomeration and Tacit Collusion in The Lodging Industry, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2013) View citations (23) (2013)

2010

17. Fundamentals and US natural gas price dynamics
    2010 Annual Meeting, February 6-9, 2010, Orlando, Florida, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (3)
18. Partial Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard in Banking
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2008

19. An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)

2007

20. Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
21. Local elections and consumption insurance: evidence from Chinese villages
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
22. Price Dispersion under Costly Capacity and Demand Uncertainty
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (33)

2006

23. Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
24. Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits
    Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute
    See also Chapter Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits, Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan (2007) (2007)
25. The Thick Market Effect on Housing Markets Transactions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2005

26. A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
27. Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (26)
    See also Journal Article Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2005) View citations (27) (2005)
28. Rural-Urban Education and Health Disparities in China: A Structural Approach
    CEMA Working Papers, China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics
29. Subjective Morality Risks and Bequests
    2005 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (43)
    See also Journal Article Subjective mortality risk and bequests, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2015) View citations (24) (2015)
30. The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    Also in Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings, Econometric Society (2004) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The thick market effect on local unemployment rate fluctuations, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2006) View citations (33) (2006)
31. Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (34)
    See also Journal Article Vehicle choices, miles driven, and pollution policies, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer (2013) View citations (37) (2013)

2004

32. A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article A SIMPLE MODEL OF OPTIMAL HATE CRIME LEGISLATION, Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International (2011) View citations (2) (2011)
33. Efficiency of Thin and Thick Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article Efficiency of thin and thick markets, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (11) (2016)
34. Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2003

35. A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation for Labor Taxes with Piecewise-Linear Budgets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article A simulation-based welfare loss calculation for labor taxes with piecewise-linear budgets, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2004) View citations (6) (2004)
36. Individual Subjective Survival Curves
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (38)
    See also Chapter Individual Subjective Survival Curves, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations (79) (2005)

Journal Articles

2021

1. Insurance or deliberate use of the bankruptcy law for financial gain? Testing for heterogeneous filing behaviors in the United States
   Economic Modelling, 2021, 105, (C)

2020

2. Bequest motive, household portfolio choice, and wealth inequality in urban China
   China Economic Review, 2020, 60, (C) View citations (7)
3. International comparison of household asset allocation: Micro-evidence from cross-country comparisons
   Emerging Markets Review, 2020, 43, (C) View citations (13)
4. Introduction to the special collection on life course decisions of families in China
   Demographic Research, 2020, 43, (5), 129-142 View citations (2)

2019

5. Chinese trade price and Yuan's valuation
   The World Economy, 2019, 42, (7), 2215-2243 View citations (2)
6. Credit accessibility, institutional deficiency and entrepreneurship in China
   China Economic Review, 2019, 54, (C), 160-175 View citations (20)
7. Dual Credit Markets and Household Usage to Finance: Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, (6), 1280-1317 View citations (17)
8. Information contents of collateral under heterogeneous borrower qualities on the bank loans market in China
   China Economic Review, 2019, 57, (C) View citations (1)
9. Nonparametric Panel Estimation of Labor Supply
   Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37, (2), 260-274 View citations (1)

2018

10. GROUP LENDING WITH HETEROGENEOUS TYPES
    Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56, (2), 895-913 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (1) (2013)
11. Market thickness and the impact of unemployment on housing market outcomes
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018, 98, (C), 27-49 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Market Thickness and the Impact of Unemployment on Housing Market Outcomes, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (5) (2013)

2017

12. Earth’s changing global atmospheric energy cycle in response to climate change
    Nature Communications, 2017, 8, (1), 1-8 View citations (1)
13. THE EFFECTS OF REPLACING CHINA’S TWO-EXAM COLLEGE ENTRANCE SYSTEM WITH A ONE-EXAM SYSTEM
    The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2017, 62, (04), 783-796
14. The Impacts of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Healthcare Expenditures and Health Outcomes
    Health Economics, 2017, 26, (2), 149-163 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (1) (2015)

2016

15. Efficiency of thin and thick markets
    Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 192, (1), 40-54 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Efficiency of Thin and Thick Markets, NBER Working Papers (2004) View citations (8) (2004)
16. The higher costs of doing business in China: Minimum wages and firms' export behavior
    Journal of International Economics, 2016, 100, (C), 81-94 View citations (53)

2015

17. A model to evaluate vehicle emission incentive policies in Japan
    Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2015, 17, (1), 79-108 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (3) (2014)
18. A simple test for private information in insurance markets with heterogeneous insurance demand
    Economics Letters, 2015, 136, (C), 197-200 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (8) (2011)
19. Do natural disasters cause an excessive fear of heights? Evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2015, 90, (C), 79-89 View citations (21)
20. Nonparametric estimation of structural labor supply and exact welfare change under nonconvex piecewise-linear budget sets
    Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188, (2), 526-544
21. Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites
    Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34, (6-10), 763-798 View citations (1)
22. STRATEGIC OR NONSTRATEGIC: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL BENEFIT IN BANKRUPTCY
    Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53, (2), 1004-1018 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Strategic or Non-Strategic: The Role of Financial Benefit in Bankruptcy, WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS (2014) (2014)
23. Subjective mortality risk and bequests
    Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188, (2), 514-525 View citations (24)
    See also Working Paper Subjective Morality Risks and Bequests, 2005 Meeting Papers (2005) (2005)

2014

24. Does China¡¯s National College Entrance Exam Effectively Evaluate Applicants?
    Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2014, 9, (2), 174-182
25. Economic and Financial Challenges and Issues in the Asia-Pacific Countries: Guest Editors' Introduction
    Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2014, 50, (1), 118-119
26. Health shocks, village elections, and household income: Evidence from rural China
    China Economic Review, 2014, 30, (C), 155-168 View citations (2)
27. Model specification test with correlated but not cointegrated variables
    Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, (P1), 80-85 View citations (3)

2013

28. Making Friends with Your Neighbors? Agglomeration and Tacit Collusion in The Lodging Industry
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, (3), 1002-1017 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry, NBER Working Papers (2011) (2011)
29. Vehicle choices, miles driven, and pollution policies
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2013, 44, (1), 4-29 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (34) (2005)

2012

30. Local elections and consumption insurance
    The Economics of Transition, 2012, 20, (3), 521-547 View citations (2)

2011

31. A SIMPLE MODEL OF OPTIMAL HATE CRIME LEGISLATION
    Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49, (3), 674-684 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation, NBER Working Papers (2004) View citations (4) (2004)

2010

32. An alternative root-n consistent estimator for panel data binary choice models
    Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 157, (1), 93-100 View citations (15)
33. Initial Wage, Human Capital and Post Wage Differentials
    Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2010, 51, (2), 23-42

2006

34. Is the Zipf law spurious in explaining city-size distributions?
    Economics Letters, 2006, 92, (2), 256-262 View citations (28)
35. The thick market effect on local unemployment rate fluctuations
    Journal of Econometrics, 2006, 133, (1), 127-152 View citations (33)
    See also Working Paper The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (3) (2005)

2005

36. Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 300-304 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (26) (2005)
37. Estimating the effect of price limits on limit-hitting days
    Econometrics Journal, 2005, 8, (1), 79-96 View citations (14)

2004

38. A simulation-based welfare loss calculation for labor taxes with piecewise-linear budgets
    Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (11), 2339-2359 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation for Labor Taxes with Piecewise-Linear Budgets, NBER Working Papers (2003) View citations (1) (2003)

2003

39. Testing the Barten Model of Economies of Scale in Household Consumption: Toward Resolving a Paradox of Deaton and Paxson
    Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111, (6), 1361-1377 View citations (39)
40. The Effects of Bracketing in Wealth Estimation
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49, (2), 273-287 View citations (4)

2002

41. The Uncertain Wage - Effort Hypothesis and Wage Secrecy
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002, 2, (1), 1-17 View citations (1)

2001

42. An Econometric Study of the Residential Demand for Non-Listed, Non-Published, and Special Non-Published Services
    Annals of Economics and Finance, 2001, 2, (1), 165-185

1995

43. Risk Aversion in Contests
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (431), 951-62 View citations (102)

Books

2016

1. Report on the Development of Household Finance in Rural China (2014)
   Springer Books, Springer View citations (18)

2014

2. Data you need to know about China
   Springer Books, Springer View citations (66)

Chapters

2007

1. Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Working Paper Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits, Levy Economics Institute (2006) (2006)

2005

2. Individual Subjective Survival Curves
   A chapter in Analyses in the Economics of Aging, 2005, pp 377-412 View citations (79)
   See also Working Paper Individual Subjective Survival Curves, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations (38) (2003)

1998

3. Consumption and Savings Balances of the Elderly: Experimental Evidence on Survey Response Bias
   A chapter in Frontiers in the Economics of Aging, 1998, pp 353-392 View citations (44)
4. Subjective Survival Curves and Life Cycle Behavior
   A chapter in Inquiries in the Economics of Aging, 1998, pp 259-309 View citations (55)