Publications

.Laboratories of Democracy: Policy Experimentation under Decentralization (with Christopher Li) AEJ: Micro Vol.11, Issue 3, August 2019 

​Moral Hazard in Teams with Subjective Evaluations  RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 52, Issue 1, Spring 2021

Variations in Governmental Responses to and the Diffusion of COVID-19: The Role of Political Decentralization ​(with Jiasheng Li and Chuanchuan Zhang)  Frontier of Economics in China Vol. 16, Issue 4, December 2021

Which Networks Permit Stable Allocations? Stable Allocations with Network-Based Comparisons (with Yiqing Xing) Theoretical Economics 
Vol. 17, Issue 4, Novermber 2022 

A Screening Perspective on Experimental Zones (with Yiqing Xing) China Economic Review Vol. 77, Issue 1 , February 2023 

Working Papers

Law Enforcement and Local Innovation 3rd R&R China Economic Journal

Governmental System and Economic Volatility under Democracy  (with Christopher Li, Giulia Venturini and Weifeng Zhong) Reject & Resubmit JLEO

A Theory of Multiplexity: Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relationships New Version! March 2021  (with Wei Huang and Yiqing Xing) 

Work in progress 

Degree-weighted social learning (with Xiao Han, Xin Tong, Yushen Wu and Yiqing Xing)
Communication with Informal Funding (with Jin Li and Yiqing Xing) 
Public goods provision in Chinese rural villages: When informal institutions meet formal committee (with Yunnan Guo and Chuanchuan Zhang) 
Friends vs. market (with Yi Chen and Yiqing Xing)