Publications
- "Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online versus Face-to-face Interactions" (with Ruben Gaetani, Naqun Huang, and Yanmin Yang) The Economic Journal, Forthcoming. PDF; URL; Replication
- "Young Women in Cities: Urbanization and Gender-biased Migration" (with Yumi Koh, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi, and Hanzhe Zhang) Journal of Development Economics 172, 2025: 103378. PDF; URL; CityPerspectives
- "Subway, Collaborative Matching, and Innovation" (with Yumi Koh and Jianhuan Xu) Review of Economics and Statistics 107, 2025: 476-493. PDF; URL; Replication; VoxDev
- "Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India" (with Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, and Tianyue Ruan) Review of Financial Studies 37, 2024: 2550-2585. PDF; URL
- "Cities in a Pandemic - Evidence from China" (with Badi Baltagi, Ying Deng, and Zhenlin Yang) Journal of Regional Science 63, 2023: 379-408. PDF; URL
- "Attenuation of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from the Universe of Chinese Manufacturing Firms" (with Liyao Li and Shimeng Liu) Journal of Urban Economics 130, 2022: 103458. PDF; URL
- "Housing Wealth Shocks, Home Equity Withdrawal, and the Claiming of Social Security Retirement Benefits" (with Naqun Huang and Amanda Ross) Economic Inquiry 60, 2022: 620-644. PDF; URL
- "Forced Moves and Home Maintenance: The Amplifying Effects of Mortgage Payment Burden on Underwater Homeowners" (with John Harding, Stuart Rosenthal, and Xirui Zhang) Real Estate Economics 50, 2022: 498-533. PDF; URL
- "Government Management Capacities and the Containment of COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-sectional Study across Chinese Cities" (with Wenchao Li and Junjian Yi) BMJ Open 11, 2021: e041516. PDF; URL
- "Hedonic Price of Housing Space" (with Sumit Agarwal, Yanying Chen, and Yi Jin Tan) Real Estate Economics 49, 2021: 574-609. URL
- "Monthly Spending Dynamics of the Elderly Following a Health Shock" (with Terence Cheng and Rhema Vaithianathan) Health Economics 28, 2019: 23-43. URL
- "The Impact of In-house Unnatural Death on Property Values - Evidence from Hong Kong" (with Zheng Chang) Regional Science and Urban Economics 73, 2018: 112-126. URL
- "Strategic Sequential Bidding for Government Land Auction Sales - Evidence from Singapore" (with Sumit Agarwal, Alan Cheong, and Ernie Teo) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 57, 2018: 535-565. URL
- "The Impact of the Cost of Car Ownership on House Price Gradient in Singapore" (with Naqun Huang and Amanda Ross) Regional Science and Urban Economics 68, 2018: 160-171. URL
- "Cointegration of Matched Home Purchase and Rental Price Indexes - Evidence from Singapore" (with Badi Baltagi) Regional Science and Urban Economics 55, 2015: 80-88. URL
- "The Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Hospital Input Prices" (with Andrew Friedson) Health Economics Review 5, 2015: 38-52. URL
- "Further Evidence on the Spatio-Temporal Model of House Prices in the United States" (with Badi Baltagi) Journal of Applied Econometrics 29, 2014: 515-522. URL
- "The Influence of State Policy and Proximity to Medical Services on Health Outcomes" Journal of Urban Economics 80, 2014: 97-109. URL
- "Intermediate Input Sharing in the Hospital Service Industry" Regional Science and Urban Economics 43, 2013: 888-902. URL
Working Papers
- "When Taxi Drivers Meet Dynamic Pricing: A Lesson from Singapore's JustGrab Program" (with Shih-Fen Cheng and Wen-Tai Hsu) Revise and Resubmit at Regional Science and Urban Economics. PDF
- "Identifying Knowledge Spillovers from Universities: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Urban China" (with Shimeng Liu and Yifan Wu) Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Urban Economics. PDF