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Selected Publications

• Risk aversion in contests. Economic Journal, July1995. With Stergios Skaperdas
• A test for global maximum. JASA, Sep 1999. With Jiming Jiang.
• Testing the Barten Model of economies of scale in household consumption: toward resolving a paradox of Deaton and Paxson. Journal of Political Economy. December 2003. With Victoria Vernon.
• The effects of bracketing in wealth estimation. With Harish Chand. Review of Income and Wealth, 49(2), June 2003.
• A simulation-based welfare loss calculation for labor taxes with piecewise-linear budgets. Journal of Public Economics: 88 (2004). With Don Fullerton.
• Cost-effective policies to reduce vehicle emissions. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. May 2005. With Don Fullerton.
• The thick market effect on local unemployment rate fluctuations. Journal of Econometrics 133(2006). With Qinghua Zhang.
• Is the Zipf law spurious in explaining cit-size distribution? Economics Letters 92(2006). With Dong Li and Shunfeng Song.
• A simple model of optimal hate crime legislation. Economic Inquiry. 2010. With Roberton Williams III and Thomas Wiseman.
• An alternative root-n consistent estimator for panel data binary choice models. Journal of Econometrics 157 (2010). With Chunrong Ai.
• Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry. With Manuel Hernandez. Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.

Selected Working Papers

• Efficiency of thin and thick markets. With Qi Li. Revision requested by Journal of Econometrics.
• The market thickness and the impact of unemployment on housing market outcomes. With Qinghua Zhang. Revision requested by Econometrica.
• A simple test of private information in the insurance markets with heterogeneous insurance demand. With Feng Huang and Adalbert Mayer.
• Residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and education attainment of blacks and whites. With Yingning Wang.
• Incentives of corporate donations after the Wenchuan Earthquake in China. With Liwei Shan.
• Personal bankruptcy: reconciling adverse events and strategic timing hypothesis using heterogeneity in filling types. With Tarun Sabarwal and Shuoxun Zhang.
• Estimating interdependence between health and education in a dynamic model. With Guan Gong.