SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Within-development density and housing prices in Singapore", (with E. Fesselmeyer, and L. Poco), Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming

“Differential fertility, School Enrollment, and Development”, (with J. Zhang) Journal of Population Economics, 36, (2023) pp 2205–2240

“Willingness to Fight on: Environmental Quality in Dynamic Contests,” (with J. Lu and A. Salvo) RAND Journal of Economics,54(2), (2022) pp. 189-239

“Adversity-Hope Hypothesis: Air Pollution Raises Daily Lottery Demand in China,” (with S. H. Chew and A. Salvo) Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 62, (2021) pp. 247-280

“Declining Discount Rates in Singapore’s Market for Privately Developed Apartments,”(with E. Fesselmeyer and Alberto Salvo) Journal of Applied Econometrics,37(2), (2021) pp. 330-350

“Air Pollution as a Determinant of Food Delivery and Related Plastic Waste,” (with J. Chu and A. Salvo) Nature Human Behaviour, 5, (2020) pp. 212-220

"Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore" (with Jia He, Tien Foo Sing, Changcheng Song, and Wei Kang Wong) Management Science2020, vol 66, no. 2, p. 783-804.

“Different Paths? Human Capital Prices, Wages and Inequality in Canada and the US” (with Audra Bowlus and Chris Robinson) Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, vol 37, no. S2, p. S689-S734.

“Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China,” (with J. He and A. Salvo) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 vol. 11, no. 1, 173-201

"Non-labor income and the age of marriage: Evidence from China’s heating policy" (with Junhong Chu, and I.P.L. Png) Demography, 2018, vol. 55, no. 6, 2345-2370

"Severe Air Pollution and Child Absences When Schools and Parents Respond" (with Alberto Salvo) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, vol. 92, p. 300-330

"How Much Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore." (with Eric Fesselmeyer) Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, vol 71, p.46-61.

"The quantity–quality fertility–education trade-off," 2015, IZA World of Labor

"Is there a quality-quantity tradeoff: Evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy," Journal of Population Economics,2014, vol. 27, no. 2, 565-602. Won the 2015 Kuznets Prize

"Genetic Ability and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility" (with Jinli Zeng) Journal of Population Economics, 2009 22 (1), 75-95

"Business Cycle Models, Aggregation, and Real Wage Cyclicality," (with Audra Bowlus and Chris Robinson) Journal of Labor Economics, 2002, vol. 20, no. 2, 308-335

"Marginal Income Tax Rates in the United States: A Nonparametric Approach," (with Hafiz Akhand) Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002 vol. 49, no. 2, 383-404