Aug. 2016 - Jan. 2022:  assistant professor, IESR, Jinan University

Feb. 2022 - Jan. 2024:  associate professor (without tenure), IESR, Jinan University

Feb. 2024 - : associate professor (with tenure), IESR, Jinan University

Apr. 2023 - Aug. 2023:  visiting research fellow, Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD), Peking University

Sep. 2023 - :  adjunct research fellow (by courtesy), IGHD, Peking University

Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2016

M.S., Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, 2014

B.A., Economics, & B.S., Statistics, Peking University, 2011

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

1.  Air Pollution and Mortality Impacts of Coal Production: Evidence from Coalmine Accidents in China, with Yin Chu, J. Scott Holladay, Xianliang Tian, Maigeng Zhou, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 121, 102846 (2023).

2. The Effects of Temperature on Labor Productivity, with Wangyang Lai, Qu Tang, Chen Xi, Peng Zhang, Annual Review of Resource Economics 15: 213–32 (2023). 

3. The effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence from China, with Yue Hua, Xiaoqing Tan, Journal of Population Economics 36, 1293–1332 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00932-y 

4.  Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-specific Travel Restrictions in China during the Covid-19 Pandemic, with Xi Chen, Wei Shi, Pei Yu, China Economic Review 73, 101800 (2022). 

5.  Spatial Variations and Social Determinants of Life Expectancy in China: 2005-2020: A Population-based Spatial Panel Modelling Study, with Wei Wang, Yunning Liu, Pengpeng Ye, Chengdong Xu, Peng Yin, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Lin Lin, Lijun Wang, Junming Li, Wei Shi, Maigeng Zhou, THE LANCET Regional Health - Western Pacific 23, 100451 (2022).

6.  Productivity Loss amid Invisible Pollution, with Chunchao Wang, Qianqian Lin, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 112, 102638 (2022).

7.  Adaptation and the distributional effects of heat: Evidence from Professional Archery Competitions, with Jinhua Zhao, Southern Economic Journal 88, 1149–1177 (2022). 

8.  Economic cost of air pollution: a rational expectation approach (基于理性预期理论的大气污染经济成本评估), with Yingdan Mei, Li Gao, Jiade Chen, China Population, Resources and Environment (中国人口·资源与环境), 2021, 31(2): 24-33. DOI: 10.12062/cpre. 20200609 

9.  Dredging the Sand Commons: The Economic and Geophysical Drivers of Beach Nourishment, with Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Allen Klaiber, and Xiaoyu Li, Climatic Change 162, 363–383 (2020). https://rdcu.be/b4GW7.

10. Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, with Xi Chen, Wei Shi, Journal of Population Economics 33 (Lead article), 1127–1172 (2020). 

11. The impact of indoor air pollution on health outcomes and cognitive abilities: Empirical evidence from China, with Feng'an Yang, Wangyang Lai, Population and Environment 40, 388–410 (2019). 

12.  Capitalization of interconnected active transportation infrastructure, with Cristina Connolly, Mitchell Livy, and Allen Klaiber, Landscape and Urban Planning 182, 67–78 (2019). 

13.  Shoreline defense against climate change and capitalized impact of beach nourishment: Evidence from the coastal housing market in North Carolina, with Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 92, 134– 147 (2018).

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