Research

Publications

"Returns to Education: The Roles of Income, Gender, and Occupations" (with Hui Xu, Meng Shen, and Delong Meng) AEA Papers and Proceedings vol. 115, May 2025 (pp. 664-68) 

“Is It What You Say, or How You Say It?” (with Xiangdong Qin and Zhiren Wu) Volume 27, pages 874–921, (2024), Experimental Economics 

"From Adam Smith to Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Exploration of Emotion in Humanomics" (with Xiangdong Qin, Zhiren Wu, and Xuechun Feng) 2024, Public Choice. 

"Impact of Open-Mindedness on Information Avoidance: Tailored vs. Generic Communication" (with Delong Meng) Volume 108, February 2024, 102152 , Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 

"Is the 'Smoke-filled Room' Necessary? An Experimental Study of the Effect of Communication Networks on Collusion" (with Timothy Flannery) , Volume 89, Issue 4, April 2023, 1056-1077, Southern Economic Journal  

"The Impact of Parental Migration on Social Interaction - A Framed Field Experiment with Left-behind Children in China" (with Hui Xu) Volume 187, July 2021, 246-257 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"The Aspirational Income Hypothesis: Limits of the Relative Income Hypothesis" (with Elias Lafi Khalil, Jason Aimone, Daniel Houser, Deborah Martinez and Kun Qian) Volume 182, February 2021, 229-247, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"Intention or Request: The Impact of Message Structure " (with Timothy Flannery) Feb 2021, Games, on Special Issue "Experiments on Communication in Games" 

"Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study" (with Cesar Martinelli and Mikhail Freer)  Volume 175, July 2020, 365-379, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"Demanding or Deferring? An Experimental Analysis of the Economic Value of Communication with Attitude" (with Daniel Houser) Volume 115, May, 2019, 381-395,  Games and Economic Behavior 

"Embezzlement, Whistleblowing, and Organizational Architecture: An Experimental Investigation" (with Michael Makowsky) 2018, 147, 58-75, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"The Effect of Digitalization on Penalty Payments: An Experimental Investigation" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2015, 4(8), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 

"Using an Exogenous Mechanism to Examine Efficient Probabilistic Punishment" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2013, 39, 1-10, Journal of Economic Psychology  

Working Papers

“Echo Chambers: Choosing Interlocutors and Messages” (with Delong Meng) Accepted by Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

"Thinking against the Wind: Narratives and Reasoning Ability" (with Shuguang Jiang and Qian Wei) R&R at European Economic Review 

"The Hidden Tradeoffs in Promoting Impure Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Farmers" (with Tongzhe Li) Under Review 

"How Elections Reshape Beliefs: Cognitive and Social Dissonance in Political Preference Formation" (with Thomas Stratmann) Under Review 

"Influence When You Can: A Field Experiment on Climate Beliefs" (with Tongzhe Li) Under Review

"False Memory, Competition, and Performance" (with Timothy Flannery and Benjamin Beranek) Under Review

Research in Progress

"Bargaining in Incomplete Contracts with Uncertainty and Asymmetric Information" (with Zhiyong Liu) Complete Draft Available Upon Request

"Pricing on Freelance Platforms: Theory and Experiment " (with Ying Yang) Complete Draft Available Upon Request

"Seeing the Gap in Returns to Education" (with Hui Xu) Complete Draft Available Upon Request

"Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment" (with Hudja, Stanton, Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, and Charles North) Work in Progress 

"Social Identity on Farmers’ Climate Beliefs: A Field Experiment"  (with Tongzhe Li) Work in Progress 

"Motivated Beliefs in Return to Education" (with Hui Xu, Meng Shen, and Delong Meng)  Work in Progress 

"Should Birds of a Feather Learn Together? An Experimental Study on How Group Composition Affects Social Learning" (with Tingting Ding) Work in Progress 

Teaching 

Currently Offering

Behavioral Economics 

Principles of Microeconomics 

Courses Offered in the Past

Business Statistics 

Behavioral Economics

Behavioral Economics and Managerial Decisions 

Design and Analysis of Experimental Economics

Econometrics II

Exploring the World of Business

Intermediate Microeconomics

Industrial Behavioral Economics