TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Programme: Undergraduate, Graduate, and International Programs.

Teaching Focusing: Principles of Economics; Business Statistics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Urban Economics; Labor Economics; Applied Econometrics; Economic Growth; Academic Writing

Research Areas: Urban, Regional, and Real Estate Economics; Labor Economics; Environmental Economics; Chinese Economy

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2017.09-2023.07  Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics & School of Economics, Xiamen University, Professor      

2014.02-2017.07  Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Professor

2011.02-2011.01  Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, Associate Professor

2006.08-2010.12  Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Associate Professor

• INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009.03-2009.08  Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), USA

2016.9-2017.6  Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Center for Real Estate, MIT, USA

MANAGERAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Real Estate Economist, Torto Wheaton Research (Boston), 2005.08-2005.10

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

Field top journals:

• Trans-Boundary Air Pollution Spillovers: Physical Transport and Economic Costs by Distance, with V. Brian Viard and Peng Zhang, Journal of Development Economics 155 (2022), 102808.

• Air Quality and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China, with V. Brian Viard and Peng Zhang, Economic Journal 131(2021), 3241-3273.

Race-specific Urban Wage Premia and the Black-White Wage Gap, with Elizabeth Ananat and Stephen L. Ross, Journal of Urban Economics 108 (2018), 141-153.

• Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation and Its Determinants: The Case of China’s Building Height Limits, with Jan Brueckner, Junfu Zhang, and Yizhen Gu, Review of Economics and Statistics 99 (2017), 663-677.

• Corporate Sexual Equality and Firm Performance, with Liwei Shan and Lu Zheng, Strategic Management Journal 38 (2017), 1812-1826.

• Highway Toll and Air Pollution: Evidence from Chinese Cities, with Yizhen Gu, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 83 (2017), 32-49.

• The Effect of Beijing’s Driving Restrictions on Pollution and Economic Activity, with V. Brian Viard, Journal of Public Economics 125 (2015), 98-115.

• Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: How Important is Worker Heterogeneity? With Stephen L. Ross, Journal of Labor Economics 31 (2013), 271-304.

• Smart Café Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area, Journal of Urban Economics 61 (2007), 86-111.

Other journals

• Quality of Life in Chinese Cities, with Tie Shi and Wenzhang Zhu, China Economic Review 69, (2021), 101682.

• Land Conversion Across Cities in China, with Xiaocong Xu and Junfu Zhang, Regional Science and Urban Economics 27(2021), 103643.

• Do Rural Migrants Benefit from Urban Labor Market Agglomeration Economies? Evidence from Chinese Cities, with Guangliang Yang and Lixing Li, Growth and Change 51(2020), 910-931.

• Running with a Mask? The Effect of Air Pollution on Marathon Runners’ Performance, with Mengmeng Guo, Journal of Sports Economics 20 (7), 2019, 903-928.

• Commute Costs and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Satellite Campus, with V. Brian Viard, Journal of Economic Geography 19 (2019), 723-752.

• The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China, with Yu Liao and Junfu Zhang, Journal of Housing Economics 33 (2016), 59-69.

•       Do Agglomeration Economies affect Local Comovement of Stock Returns? Evidence from China, with Michael Firth and Liwei Shan, Urban Studies 54 (5), 2017, 1142-1161.
  

• Searching for the Parallel Growth of Cities in China, with Zhihong Chen and Dayong Zhang, Urban Studies 50 (2013), 2118-2135.

• Impact Fees and Real Estate Prices: Evidence from Thirty-five Chinese Cities, with Xiaofang Dong and Yufei Yuan, Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013), 207-219.

• Economic Growth, Local Industrial Development and Inter-Regional Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China, with Puman Ouyang, China Economic Review 23 (2012), 445-460.

• Testing Urbanization Economies in Manufacturing Industries: Urban Diversity or Urban Size? With Junjie Hong, Journal of Regional Science 51 (2011), 585-603.

• Information and Communication Technologies and Geographic Concentration of Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from China, with Junjie Hong, Urban Studies 48 (2011), 2339-54.

• Industry Specialization, Diversification, Churning, and Unemployment in Chinese Cities, with Xiaofang Dong and Guojun Chai, China Economic Review 21 (2010), 508-520.

• The R&D Survey-Patent Database Link Project, with William Kerr, Journal of Technology Transfer 33 (2008), 173-186.

Journal Papers (Domestic)

Cases and Practical Papers

Conference Papers (International)

Textbooks

 How to Write and Publish Economic Research Papers in English, with Judith M. Pereira, in Chinese, Truth & Wisdom (Gezhi) Press, Shanghai, 2012.  

Monography

Others

Book Chapter

• A Mayor's Perspective on Tackling Air Pollution, with V. Brian Viard, in Handbook of Real Estate and the Macroeconomics, 2022, Charles Ka Rui Leung (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.

• Labor Market Agglomeration Economies, in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, in press, Klaus Zimmermann (ed), Springer Nature.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Government-funded grants

2022-2025  Transboundary Environmental Pollution, National Science Foundation Grant, CNY480,000 (Grant # 72173105)

2017-2021  The Effect of Air Pollution on Inter-city and International Migration, National Science Foundation Grant, CNY490,000 (Grant # 71773096)

2007-2013 Urban Growth and Real Estate Prices, Key Project Funded by the China Social Science Foundation, CNY120,000.

Corporate-funded grants

International collaborative grants

2018.02-2019.02  Land Conversion and Misallocation across Cities in China, The Lincoln Institute China Program International Fellowship, Co-PI with Junfu Zhang (Clark University, USA), $US33,000, USA

2004－2005  The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dissertation Fellowship

2003－2004  The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation

AWARDS AND HONORS

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editor, 《中国经济问题》 (Chinese journal)，2020-2021

Guest co-editor: Journal of Labor Research (China labor market special issue), 2019

Guest co-editor: Growth and Change (Big data and urban and regional policy evaluation special issue), 2021

Academic Editor: PLOS ONE (SCI), 2018-present

Editorial board member: Growth and Change (SSCI), 2018—present

Associate Editor: China and World Economy (SSCI), 2021—present

Associate Editor: Environment and Economic Development (SSCI), 2021-present

Associate Editor: Journal of Regional Science (SSCI), 2024-Present

REFEREE SERVICES

American Economic Review                

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Economic Journal                                

Journal of Political Economy

Journal of Public Economics

Journal of Labor Economics              

Journal of Urban Economics              

Journal of Development Economics    

Journal of Environmental Economics & Management

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Journal of Economic Geography

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Journal of Regional Science

Real Estate Economics              

China Economic Review                            

Environment and Planning A

Environmental and Resource Economics

Economics of Education Review

Labor Economics

Papers in Regional Science

Urban Studies                                      

Journal of Housing Economics

Small Business Economics

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

Journal of Business Ethics                

Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Economic Inquiry

INVITED SPEECH AND MEDIA COVERAGE

Invited seminars:

Peking University

Tsinghua University

Renmin University

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics  

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Chinese University of Hong Kong                                

National University of Singapore    

Ohio State University                                                    

University of Nevada, Reno

University of California, Riverside                                

Western Michigan University

Media coverage: Financial Time, Business Weekly (Chinese), NPR, Slate, Harper’s Magazine, The Christian Post, Wall Street Journal (Southeastern Asia), La Agencia EFE