Publications
You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Most of my working papers are posted on my SSRN page.
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Perceived Economic Prospects during the Early Stage of COVID-19 Breakout. 2023. with Keyang Li, Yu Qin, and Jing Wu. Contemporary Economic Policy. Available online.
- Online Markets and Trust. 2022. with Wenbo Zou and Jinjie Wang. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 201: 395-412.
- Genetic Distance and Intra-national Variation in Preferences and Behaviors. 2022. with Yu Qin, Jianqing Ruan, and Ling Wang. Journal of Asian Economics. Volume 83.
- Negotiating Housing Deal on a Polluted Day: Consequences and Possible Explanations. 2019. with Yu Qin and Jing Wu. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94: 161-187.
- Appeals to Social Norms and Taxpayer Compliance. 2019. with James Alm, William Schulze, and Carrie von Bose. Southern Economic Journal, 86(2): 638-666.
- The Roles of Emotion and Reasoning in Coping with Hazardous Events. 2019. with Kevin M. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Kniffin, Howard Kunreuther, and William Schulze. 180: 778-796.
- Nudging Charitable Giving: Three Field Experiments. 2017. with Kent Messer, Homa Zarghamee, Jacob Fooks, William Schulze, and Shang Wu. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66: 137-149.
- The Sound of Cooperation: Musical Influences on Mood and Behavior. 2017. with Kevin Kniffin, William Schulze, and Brian Wansink. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(3): 372-390.
- University Licensing of Patents for Varietal Innovations in Agriculture. 2016. with Bradley Rickard and Timothy Richards. Agricultural Economics, 47(1): 3-14.
- Incentive Mechanisms, Loan Decisions and Policy Rationing: A Framed Field Experiment on Rural Credit. 2016. with Ying Cao, Calum G. Agricultural Finance Review. Turvey, Jiujie Ma, Rong Kong, and Guangwen He. 76(3): 326-347.
- Context Effects in a Negatively Framed Social Dilemma Experiment. 2013. with Kent Messer and Jordan Suter. Environmental and Resource Economics, 55(3): 387-405.
Applied Microeconomics
- The Impact of Fertility Relaxation on the Gender Wage Gap. 2024. with Sumit Agarwal, Keyang Li, Yu Qin, and Jing Wu. Journal of Human Resources. Available online.
- Travel Costs and Cross-city Investments: Evidence from China's High-Speed Rail. 2023. with Yatang Lin, Yu Qin, Johan Sulaeman, and Jialiang Zhang. Review of Finance, 27(3): 1119-1154.
- Steering in the Housing Market: Incentive Induced by the Tax Scheme. 2023. with Keyang Li, Jing Wu, and Jianwei Xing. Regional Science and Urban Economics. Available online.
- Tax Evasion, Capital Gains Taxes, and the Housing Market. 2020. with Sumit Agarwal, Keyang Li, Yu Qin, and Jing Wu. Journal of Public Economics, 188: 104222.
Studies on Environment, Resource, and Energy
- The impact of energy poverty on subjective well-being: evidence from China. 2025. with Han Yang and Xuefeng Li. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1): 1-11.
- Rural residents' climate change perceptions, personal experiences, and purchase intention-behavior gap in energy-saving refrigeration appliances in Southwest China. 2023. with Rui He, Jianjun Jin, Xin Qiu, and Chenyang Zhang. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Article 106967.
- A Global Analysis of the Relationship between Urbanization and Fatalities in Earthquake Prone Areas. 2021. with Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Xuemei Bai, Derek T. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. Robinson, Peijun Shi, Yinyin Dou, Bo Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Fangjin Xu, and James Daniell. 12: 805-820.
- Linking Ecosystem Services and Subjective Well-being in Rapidly Urbanizing Watersheds: Insights from a Multilevel Linear Model. 2020. with Qingxu Huang, Dan Yin, Chunyang He, Ziwen Liu, Shiting Meng, Qiang Ren, Rui Zhao, and Luis Inostroza. Ecosystem Services, 43: 101106.
- The Effects of Trust in Government on Earthquake Survivors' Risk Perception and Preparedness in China. 2017. with Ziqiang Han, Xiaoli Lu, and Elisa I. Natural Hazards. Hörhager. 86: 437-452.
Conference Papers
- The Engineering, Economic and Environmental Electricity Simulation Tool (E4ST). 2016. with Biao Mao, Daniel Shawhan, Ray Zimmerman, Yujia Zhu, William Schulze, Richard Schuler, and Daniel Tylavsky. 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS). Best Paper Award; proceedings pages 2317-2325.
- A Detailed Power System Planning Model: Estimating the Long-Run Impact of Carbon-Reducing Policies. 2015. with Daniel Shawhan, John Taber, Ray Zimmerman, Charles Marquet, William Schulze, Richard Schuler, Robert Thomas, Daniel Tylavsky, Di Shi, Nan Li, Ward Jewell, Trevor Hardy, and Zhouxing Hu. 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS). Proceedings pages 2497-2506.
