Publications

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• “The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees” (2021) with Joseph G. Altonji, Journal of Labor Economics, 39(2), pp.303-360. [link]

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• “Effects of Stay-at-home Orders on Skill Requirements in Vacancy Postings” (2023) with Ran Gu, Labour Economics, Volume 82, p.102342. [link]

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• “The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men.” (2022) with Joseph G. Altonji and John Eric Humphries, Research in Labor Economics, Volume 50, pp. 25-81. [link to the NBER working paper]

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• “A Dynamic Pandemic Model Evaluating Reopening Strategies amid COVID-19,” (2021), PLOS ONE, 16(3), p.e0248302. [link]

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• “To Unlock Organizational Vitality, CEOs Need to Decentralize Power,” (2025) with Yuping Zhang, Harvard Business Review, January 2025.

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• “Optimal Control: Application and Applicability in Times of Pandemics,” (2023) with Ilias Elmouki, Abdelilah Jraifi and Aziz Darouichi, Integrated Science of Global Epidemics, Chapter 9, pp. 191-210. [link]

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• “Integrated Science of Global Epidemics 2050,” (2023), with Nima Rezaei et al, Integrated Science of Global Epidemics, Chapter 28, pp. 587-607. [link]

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• “Isoperimetric Control Inequality: Application to the Management of Limited Resources in Times of Pandemics” (2024) with Ilias Elmouki et al, The Landscape of Global Health Inequity, Chapter 7, pp 71-90. [link]

 

Books

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• “Human Resource Management in Practice,” (2025), College Management Series, Fudan University Press. ISBN 978-7-309-17657-5.

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Other Publications

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• “Cooperative Tile-based 360-degree Panoramic Streaming in Heterogeneous Networks using Scalable Video Coding” (2020) with Xiaoyi Zhang, Xinjue Hu, Shervin Shirmohammadi and Lin Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 217-231, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2886805. [link]

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• “Estimating the number of pulses in a mass extinction” (2018) with Steve Wang, Paleobiology, Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 199-218. [link]

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• “Characteristics of Major Ions in Snow and River Water in Svalbard” (2009) with Shichang Kang, Yanwei Xu and Qianggong Zhang, Chinese Journal of Polar Research, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 76-79 [link]

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Working Papers

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• Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers (2026), with Joseph G. Altonji, John Eric Humphries​ and Yagmur Yuksel. (download the working paper here)

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• Internal Migration and Extended Families in China (2024), Reject & Resubmit, the Economic Journal  (download  the working paper here)​​

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• The Price of Borrowing for College: Student Loan Interest Rates, Educational Choices, and Career Tradeoffs (2026), with Naijia Guo. IZA discussion paper No. 18768. (download the IZA discussion paper here) 

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Works in progress

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• Worker productivity and intra-household information spillover, with Mengna Luan (SWUFE).

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• AI Knowledge Spillover Through Labor Mobility: Impacts on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (King's College London).

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• Structural Model of Education and Early Career Choices under GenAI Uncertainty, with Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Sokbae Lee (Columbia) and Myung Hwan Seo (HKUST).

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• Causal Effect of GenAI Information Exposure on Early Career Choices of College Graduates, Xiaohong Chen (Yale) and Pedro H.C. Sant'Anna (Emory).    ​

 

• Brexit uncertainty and labor mobility in UK firms, with Su Wang (ShanghaiTech) and Malgorzata Ryduchowska (BI Norwegian Business School).

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