CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, 2027 (expected)
  • Lead the China Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2023 (CRECS)
• Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford University, 2025-2026 (expected)
  • Conducting research on sustainable development and rural education
• M.S. in Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, 2024
  • Recipient of the National Scholarship for Postgraduates and Outstanding Graduate Award of Beijing
• B.S. in Finance, University of International Business and Economics, 2022
  • Awarded 1st-class academic scholarship, dual major in Spanish

Skills

• Programming:
  • Stata (specialized in data visualization)
  • Python (web scraping, textual analysis with LLMs)
  • R (machine learning)
• Languages:
  • TOFEL (102), CET-6 (590)
  • Dual major in Spanish

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.

The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Cultural-Product Exports: Evidence from a Staggered DID Model (in Chinese)

Bin Liu, Tianhua Zou*, Han Zhang (2023). "The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Cultural-Product Exports: Evidence from a Staggered DID Model." (in Chinese) 南方经济 (South China Journal of Economics), 42(7), 135–152. (*corresponding author)

Working Papers

• Cooling Inequality on a Hotter Planet, with Lunyu Xie and Guilan Li.
• 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.
• The Long-Term Impact of China’s Aid and Investment in Africa, with Huning Wan, Lunyu Xie, and Yuheng Zhao.

Invited Conference Presentations

• Economics and Politics of Inequality in China Conference, February 2026, Manchester
• 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 (National School of Development, Peking University), April 2021, Beijing