Job Market Paper:

• When Trade Burns the Air: The Welfare Consequences of Agricultural Trade Liberalization.  

with Guojun He, Yuhang Pan

Latest version: November 2025  

Publication:

• Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology-Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?

with Lin Yang, Yatang Lin, Jin Wang

American Economic Journal: Economy Policy, 2024

• Coverage in VoxDev

• Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization

with Pak Hung Lam, Yatang Lin, Jin Wang 

• •  conditionally accepted (data) in Journal of International Economics 

  • Accepted in the Trade and Uneven Development Conference, co-organized by World Bank and the Journal of International Economics

  • Coverage in HKUST Thought Leadership Brief

Working Paper:

• Regulating Air Pollution with Transboundary Spillovers: An Empirical Investigation using PM 2.5 Data from China

with Guojun He, Shuo Li

• The Long Shadow of Industrial Pollution: Environmental Amenities and the Distribution of Skills

with Yatang Lin 

• Infrastructure Investment Shields Vulnerable Populations from Climate-Induced Unemployment in Africa

with Pak Hung Lam, Yuhang Pan, Mingjie Xu