Research

Publications

[15] "Thinking against the Wind: Narratives and Reasoning Ability" European Economics Review 184 (2026). (with Shuguang Jiang and Qian Wei)

[14] "Echo Chambers: Choosing Interlocutors and Messages" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 236 (2025): 107121. (with Delong Meng)

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

[12] "From Adam Smith to Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Exploration of Emotion in Humanomics" Public Choice  202.3 (2025): 383-399. (with Qin, Xiangdong, Mike Zhiren Wu, and Xuechun Feng.) 

[11] "Is It What You Say or How You Say It??" Experimental Economics 27.4 (2024): 874-921. (with Qin, Xiangdong and Mike Zhiren Wu.)

[10] "Impact of Open-Mindedness on Information Avoidance: Tailored Vs. Generic Communication” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 108 (2024): 102152. (with Delong Meng)

[9] "Is the 'Smoke-filled Room' Necessary? An Experimental Study of the Effect of Communication Networks on Collusio" Southern Economic Journal 89.4 (2023): 1056-1077. (with Timothy Flannery)

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

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

[6] "Intention or Request: The Impact of Message Structure" Games 12.1 (2021): 12. (with Timothy Flannery)

[5] "Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175 (2020): 365-379. (with Freer, Mikhail, César Martinelli)

[4] "Demanding or Deferring? An Experimental Analysis of the Economic Value of Communication with Attitude” Games and Economic Behavior 115 (2019): 381-395. (with Daniel Houser)

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

[2] "The Effect of Digitalization on Penalty Payments: An Experimental Investigation" Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 8.4 (2015): 250. (with Xiangdong Qin)

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

Working Papers

"Private and Public Appeals in Promoting Impure Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Farmers" (with Tongzhe Li) Major Revision 

"Pricing on Freelance Platforms: Theory and Experiment " (with Ying Yang) Major Revision 

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

"Seeing the Gap in Returns to Education" (with Hui Xu) Under Review

"Climate Beliefs: Signaling and Accountability in the Field" (with Tongzhe Li) Under Review

"Incomeplete Contracts with Optional Remedies: An Experimental Study" (with Zhiyong Liu) Under Review

"Errors in the Pursuit of Justice: An Experimental Study of Type I and Type II Trade-offs " (with Hudja, Stanton, Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, and Charles North) Under Review

Research in Progress

"False Memory, Competition, and Performance" (with Timothy Flannery and Benjamin Beranek) Draft Available Upon Request

"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 

Introduction to Microeconomics 

Experimental Economics

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

Principles of Microeconomics