CV

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Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, 2027 (expected)
• Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford University, 2025-2026 (expected)
• M.S. in Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, 2024
• B.S. in Finance, University of International Business and Economics, 2022

Experience

I am actively involved in the following labs:

• Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation Lab, School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China (with Prof. Lunyu Xie)
• China Residential Energy Consumption Survey (CRECS) Lab, Department of Energy Economics, Renmin University of China (led the 2023 round)
• Rural Education Action Program (REAP), Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI), Stanford University (with Prof. Scott Rozelle)
• Economics for Sustainability and Energy Transition (eSET), Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University (with Prof. Shanjun Li)

Selected Awards

• National Scholarship for Postgraduates, Outstanding Graduates of Beijing

Publications

Can Building Subway Systems Improve Air Quality? New Evidence from Multiple Cities and Machine Learning (2024 Outstanding Publication in ERE)

Lunyu Xie, Tianhua Zou, Joshua Linn, Haosheng Yan* (2024). "Can Building Subway Systems Improve Air Quality? New Evidence from Multiple Cities and Machine Learning." Environmental and Resource Economics. 1–36. (*corresponding author)

Working Papers

• Cooling Inequality on a Hotter Planet, with Lunyu Xie.
• How Local Discretion Shapes the Effects of a Central Mandate: Evidence from China’s Clean Heating Policy, with Lunyu Xie and Yuheng Zhao.

Work in Progress

• A Second Pair of Hands: Intergenerational Co-parenting and the Effects of Parental Training on Early Childhood Development in Rural China, with Scott Rozelle and Lei Wang.
• Housing Structure, Network Externalities, and Optimal Subsidy Dynamics, with Mengjia Hu, Joshua Linn, and Lunyu Xie.
• Information provision and electric-vehicle adoption: a randomized field experiment.

Conference Presentations

• 2025 Chinese Economists Society (CES) China Annual Conference, July 2025, Guangzhou.
• 11th International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past, Present, and Future, December 2024, Suzhou.
• 9th Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative, June 2024, Online.
• Liaoning University International Conference, June 2024, Shenyang.
• 10th Xiangzhang Annual Conference, April 2024, Nanjing.
• Xiangjiang River Forum on Economics, Finance, and Management for Young Scholars, August 2023, Changsha.
• 11th Annual National Undergraduate Economics Conference, May 2021, Online.
• 3rd National Development Youth Forum (NSD, Peking University), April 2021, Beijing