Economist · Urbanization & Green Transition
I study how China urbanizes and decarbonizes — housing and land, infrastructure, air and carbon, and the people whose lives these policies reshape — with a preference for clean causal identification on questions that matter.
Visiting Chair Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Lum Chang Chair Professor, NUS Business School (on leave)
I am an applied economist working at the intersection of urban, environmental, and real estate economics. My research asks how the built environment — housing markets, transport networks, and energy systems — shapes and is shaped by public policy, and what the green transition means for firms, workers, and families, with a primary focus on China and related work across urban Asia.
I hold a PhD in Applied Economics from Cornell University and a B.A. in Finance with a B.S. in Statistics from Peking University. My work has been cited 2,700+ times (Google Scholar), and I am listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists in Economics (2024, 2025) and IDEAS/RePEc's top 1% of female economists by publications over the past decade. I received the AsREAP Women Achievement Award in 2026.
I serve as Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and of China Economic Review. I also run Impactful Research, a platform devoted to cultivating research taste among young scholars in China.
The economics of carbon neutrality — decarbonizing buildings, transportation, and enterprises — together with air pollution's economic consequences and the governance structures that succeed, or fail, in controlling it.
How transport infrastructure and housing and land markets shape China's cities — where people and firms locate, how prices form, and who gains from the geography that results.
How public policy moves labor markets, household decisions, and demographic outcomes — from migration restrictions and fertility policy to civil-service reform.
Full list on Google Scholar · CV (PDF)
《房价的逻辑》 · SDX Joint Publishing (三联书店), forthcoming 2026.
A book for general readers on the economic logic beneath China's housing prices — what two decades of evidence actually say, told without jargon.
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