Research
Publication
Restricting video games in China: Effects on time use, educational achievement, and health Journal of Development Economics, 182, 103812 (2026) · DOI
Working Papers — Education, Human Capital, and Family
When Success Becomes Salient: Local Role Models and Schooling Decisions (with Wei Huang and Ruoming Zhang)
Higher-Education Expansion and Upper-Secondary Choice (with Yiqun Tong and Ruoming Zhang)
Premarital Property Rights and Marriage Timing: Evidence from Urban China (with Ruoming Zhang)
From Seats to Status: China’s 1999 Higher-Education Expansion and Urban–Rural Occupational Mobility (with Yiqun Tong and Ruoming Zhang)
Working Papers — Digital Economics and Technology Policy
Restricting Minors’ Online Gaming: Compliance, Evasion, and Market Responses in China
Governing Knowledge Reuse through Research Infrastructure: Evidence from the arXiv License Interface (with Ruoming Zhang)
Work in Progress
Generative AI as a Product Feature: Causal Evidence from iOS Apps
This project estimates the business returns to adopting generative AI as a product feature in mobile apps, building a daily panel for iOS apps that entered the Top-1000 charts during 2020–2025. Using event-study designs robust to staggered adoption, I estimate dynamic effects on revenue, downloads, growth, and rank.
Generative AI and Scientific Production
This project studies how generative AI affects researchers’ search, writing, knowledge reuse, and the scientific production function.
From Wanting Sons to Benchmarking Daughters: Female Names and the Changing Symbolic Expression of Son Preference in China (with Ruoming Zhang)
This project studies gender norms, son preference, and symbolic family behavior reflected in changes in female names.
Less Paperwork, More Marriages: Registration Frictions and Marriage Outcomes (with Ruoming Zhang)
This project studies the effects of marriage-registration frictions on marriage outcomes.