Publications

"Gender Composition, Social Context, and Academic Performance in High-Stakes Examinations", Hai Huang, Wei Huang, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang*, forthcoming at Journal of Development Economics.
"Centralization of Environmental Administration and Air Pollution: Evidence from China", Jidong Chen, Xinzheng Shi, Ming-ang Zhang*, and Sihan Zhang, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024: 103016.
"Special Economic Zone and Infant Mortality: Evidence from China", Siwei Guo, Zhaopeng Qu, Weizeng Sun, and Ming-ang Zhang*, Health Economics, 2024, 33(8).
"Waste Import and Air Pollution: Evidence from China's Waste Import Ban", Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang*, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023: 102837.
"The Environmental Benefit of Tax Enforcement: Evidence from China", Yu Luo, Ming-ang Zhang*, and Sihan Zhang, China Economic Journal, 2024, 17(1): 78-96.
"Unintended Consequence of Minimum Wage Hikes: Evidence Based on Firm's Pollution Emission", Ming-ang Zhang, Shuling Lu, Sihan Zhang, and Yanfeng Bai, Energy Economics, 2023: 106857.
"Administrative Division Adjustment and Housing Price Co-movement: Evidence from City-County Mergers in China", Sihan Zhang, Ming-ang Zhang* and Weizeng Sun, China & World Economy, 2022, 30(4).
"How does Historical Trauma Affect Political Participation? Evidence from the Send-down Movement in China", Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang*, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28(1): 3-43.

Selected working papers

"Ignorance is Whose Bliss: The Repeal of Compulsory Premarital Health Examinations and Marital Outcomes in Rural China", Li Han, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang, 2nd round revise and resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association
"How Does Matching Uncertainty Affect Marital Payoff? Theory and Evidence from China", Li Han, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang, reject and resubmit at Economic Journal
"Effective yet Limited: On the Political Consequences of Public Deliberation in China", Jidong Chen, Yukun Wang, Ming-ang Zhang, Xingyu Zhou, revise and resubmit at Political Science Research and Methods
"Sex Imbalance and Female Academic Performance: Evidence from Administrative and Survey data", Shiqi Guo, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang, under review
"Reciprocity and State Capacity: Evidence from a National Pollution Control Reform in China", Yu Luo, Yongwei Nian, and Ming-ang Zhang, under review
"Environmental Regulation, Labor Income Share, and Implications for Inequality", Yu Luo, Nan Wu, and Ming-ang Zhang, under review
"Gender Difference in Migration for Education", Zihan Hu, Hyejin Ku, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang
"The Agricultural Roots of Gender Gap in STEM", Xinzheng Shi, Ming-ang Zhang, and Yi Zhao