Publications

OTHERS

• Working papers:

  1. "Labor Tournament with Sabotage: on Equilibrium, Optimal Design and Experimental Evidence" (Joint with Jingfeng Lu, Yohanes E. Riyanto and Zhe Wang) 
  2. "How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore‘s Private Housing Market" (Joint  with Eric Fesselmeyer and Alberto Salvo, NUS Economics) http://ftp.iza.org/dp9862.pdf
  3. "Non-labor income and the age of marriage: Evidence from China’s heating policy" (Joint  with Junhong Chu, and I.P.L. Png, NUS Business School) http://ftp.iza.org/dp11754.pdf
  4. "Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore" (Joint with  Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong)  http://ftp.iza.org/dp9899.pdf

• Journal Articles:​

  1. “Air Pollution as a Determinant of Food Delivery and Related Plastic Waste,” (with J. Chu and A. Salvo Nature Human Behaviour,
  2. Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China, (with J. He and A. Salvo) AEJ: Applied Economics (2019), 11 (1), 173-201
  3. Non-labor income and the age of marriage: Evidence from China’s heating policy, (with Junhong Chu, and I.P.L. Png) Demography (2018), 55 (6), 2345-2370
  4. Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore, (with Jia He, Tien Foo Sing, Changcheng Song and Wei Kang Wong) Management Science, (2019), 1-22.
  5. Severe Air Pollution and Child Absences When Schools and Parents Respond (with Alberto Salvo) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (2018),  92, 300-330
  6. 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.
  7. The quantity–quality fertility–education trade-off, 2015, IZA World of Labor
  8. 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, p.565-602. Won the 2015 Kuznet Prize.
  9. Primary School Availability and Middle School Education in Rural China, (with Li Li) Labour Economics, 2014, vol. 28, p. 24-40.
  10. Dynamic pricing in the Singapore condominium market, (with Eric Fesselmeyer) Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124 no.1 p.147- 150.
  11. Economic Reforms and Gender Inequality in Urban China, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011 vol. 59, no. 4 p. 839-876.
  12. Genetic Ability and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility (with Jinli Zeng) Journal of Population Economics, 2009, vol. 22 no. 1 p. 75-95.
  13. Ownership of Property-Rights and the Allocation of Talents, (with Yohanes E. Riyanto) Applied Economics, 2009, vol. 41, no. 26, p. 3425-3436.
  14. The Impact of Women's Power on Child Quality in Rural China, China Economic Review, 2008 vol 19, no. 1 p. 101-15.
  15. Donations Revisited in A Recursive Dynamic Model, (with Jie Zhang) Canadian Journal of Economics 2008, vol 41, no. 2 p. 564-82.
  16. Determinants of Long-Run Unemployment, (with Jinli Zeng) Southern Economic Journal, 2008 vol. 19, no. 1 p. 775-93.
  17. Airline Passenger Fatality and the Demand for Air Travel, (with Jinli Zeng) Applied Economics, 2007, vol. 39, no. 14, p. 1773 - 1781.
  18. Measuring the Degree of Assortative Mating, (with Jingfeng Lu) Economics Letters, 2006 vol. 92, no 3, p. 317-322.
  19. The Evolution of the Graduation-Publication Process, (with Cheolsung Park) Economics of Education Review, 2004 vol. 23, no. 5, 519-531.
  20. A Cross-Country Comparison of the Cyclicality of Real Wages, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003 vol. 36, no. 4, 923-948.
  21. The Role of Mobility in Offsetting Inequality: A Nonparametric Exploration of the CPS, (with Catherine De Fontenay and Tue Gørgens) Review of Income and Wealth, 2002 vol. 48, no. 3, 347-370.
  22. 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.
  23. Measuring the Income Inequality from Tax Returns. (with Hafiz Akhand) Singapore Economic Review, vol. 45, no. 2, 183-193.
  24. Income Inequality in the United States: What the Individual Tax Files Say? (with Hafiz Akhand) Applied Economics Letters, 2002, vol. 9, no. 4, 255-259.
  25. 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

Writing In The Popular Press 

•  联合早报，人文亚洲专栏，7 January 2018 “迷信，炫耀，与房价” (joint with Dr. Changcheng Song)
• The Straits Times, Opinion, 14 September, 2016 "Measuring the gains of expanding the MRT system" (joint with Dr Eric Fesselmeyer)
•  The Straits Times, Opinion, 08 April ,2015 "Using property prices to guide climate change policies" (joint with Dr Eric Fesselmeyer, and Assoc Prof Alberto Salvo
• The Straits Times, Opinion, 03 April 2014 "Traffic congestion affects commuting costs which impact on housing prices" (joint with Dr Eric Fesselmeyer) 
• The Straits Times, 04 July 2013 "Raising productivity through wage rises"
• The Straits Times, Review, 8 November 2012 "Cutting wages may not be the best way to save costs?"
• The Straits Times, Review, 16 February 2010 "Don’t take ‘unlimited supply’ of Chinese workers for granted"