Job Market Paper

Unintended Consequences of Best Intentions: Examining Spillover Effects in Targeted Supplementary Education Interventions
(with Conner Mullally and Yue Ma)
Full Draft
Presented at: ASSA 2025, AAEA 2025, SEEDEC 2025, APPAM 2024

Selected Publications

Chen, Xuqi, Lisa House, Zhifeng Gao, Yujuan Gao (2024).
“Do Color-Coded Nutrition Facts Panels Nudge the Use of Nutrition Information on Food Packaging?” Food Policy
Full Draft

Ma, Yue, Xinwu Zhang, Lucy Pappas, Andrew Rule, Yujuan Gao, et al. (2023).
“Associations between Urbanization and the Home Language Environment.” Child Development
Full Draft

Working Papers

Friendship Formation and Peer Effect: Using Seat Distribution as an Instrument
(with Yu Bai and Scott Rozelle)
Full Draft
Presented at: NEUDC 2023, PacDev 2024, AAEA 2024

Overcoming Parenting Barriers in Under-Resourced Communities with “Tips-by-Text”
(with Yue Ma)
Full Draft
Presented at: AAEA 2022, China Education Finance Research Forum 2023

Working in Progross

3G Network Expansion and Fertility Decisions in Nigeria
(with Conner Mullally, Xinde Ji, Jared Gars)
Presented at: AAEA 2025

Maternal Migration and Early Child Development in Rural China
(with Yue Ma and Conner Mullally)
Presented at: SAEA 2023, AAEA 2022, WEAI 2022

Policy and Outreach Writing

Save the Children Yunnan Ludian Early Childhood Development Project (2019–2020) Evaluation Report
(with Yu Bai)

Machine Learning Project

Traffic Sign Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
(with Thiago de Andrade, Rui Guo, Cody Haby)
Full Draft