Research

Organizational Economics

"Choosing the Pond: On-the-job Experience and Long-Run Career Outcomes" with Ang Sun and Zhichao Wei, Management Science, Vol 64, Issue 2, (February 2018) pp. 860–872.

Featured In: BBC Capital

"Law, Social Responsibility, and Outsourcing" with Qiang Fu and Ivan Png, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol 57, (March 2018) pp.114–146.

"Can Self Selection Create High-Performing Teams?"  with Roy Chen, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 148, (April 2018) pp. 20–33.

"Recover Overnight? Work Interruption and Worker Productivity" with Xiqian Cai, Yi Lu and Songfa Zhong, Management Science, Vol 64, Issue 8, (August 2018) pp. 3489–3500. Featured Article of August Issue

"Automation Enables Specialization: Field Evidence" with Ivan Png, Management Science, Vol 70, Issue 3, (March 2024) pp. 1580-1595.

Labor Economics

"The Effect of Teacher Gender on Students' Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes" with Yi Lu and Hong Song, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 36, No. 3, (July 2018) pp. 743–778.

"The Average and Distributional Effects of Teenage Adversity on Long-Term Health" with Yi Lu and Huihua Xie,  Journal of Health Economics, Volume 71, (May 2020) 102288.

"Gender Peer Effects on Students' Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes: Evidence and Mechanism" with Yi Lu and Hong Song, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 56, No. 3, (Summer 2021) pp. 686-710.

"How Monetary Incentives Improve Outcomes in MOOCs: Evidence from A Field Experiment" with Tracy Liu and Jie Tang, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 190, (October 2021) pp.905-921.

"The Returns to an Additional Year of Education for College Graduates" with Jessica Pan, Journal of Public Economics, Vol 218, (Feb 2023) 104796. 

"Modeling and Predicting Learning Behavior in MOOCs" with Qiu, Jiezhong, Jie Tang, Tracy Xiao Liu, Chenhui Zhang, Qian Zhang and Yufei Xue. Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2016), San Francisco, CA, USA, February 22-25, 2016.