Research

Publication

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

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

"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 [pdf]

"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  [pdf]

"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 [pdf]

"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 [pdf]

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

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

"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 [pdf]

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

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

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

Working Papers

“Echo Chambers: Choosing Interlocutors and Messages” (with Delong Meng) 

"The Pure Characteristics of Impure Public Goods: A Field Experiment" (with Tongzhe Li) 

"Moral Expectations on Embezzlement" (with Zhen Lei and Sen Tian) 

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

"Thinking against the Wind: Narratives and Reasoning Ability" (with Shuguang Jiang and Qian Wei)

Research in Progress

"The Dissonance of Voting: Cognitive and Social Effects" (with Thomas Stratmann)

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

"Motivated Beliefs on the Return to Education: A Field Experiment from Rural China" (with Hui Xu, Meng Shen, and Delong Meng)

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

"A Field Experiment on Gender Gap Information and Educational Pursuits" (with Hui Xu)

"Multiple Remedies Contracts with Optional Damage and Communication: An Experimental Study" (with Zhiyong Liu)

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

Teaching 

Currently Offering

Behavioral Economics and Managerial Decisions 

Principles of Microeconomics 

Business Statistics 

Courses Offered in the Past

Design and Analysis of Experimental Economics

Econometrics II

Intermediate Microeconomics

Industrial Behavioral Economics

Behavioral Economics

Exploring the World of Business