Current Appointment:
University Distinguished Professor, Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, February 2023 to present
Previous and Visiting Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Business Economics - Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School, August 2015 to July 2023
Guest Professor (Honorary) - School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, March 2019 to March 2022
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow - Department of Economics, European University Institute, March 2018 to April 2018
Visiting Scholar (Honorary) - Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2015 to July 2015
Visiting Experimental Research Scholar - Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, February 2015
Assistant Professor - Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, July 2010 to July 2016 (on leave 2015 - 2016)
Associate Economist - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, July 2001 to July 2003 (Graduate Summer Intern - June to September 2004, June to September 2005)
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2010
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Behavioral Economics: Evidence from the Field
Advisors: Vincent P. Crawford and Julie Berry Cullen
M.A., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2005
B.A., Economics, Mathematics, Wellesley College, June 2001
Research Areas: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Microeconomics
Selected Publications:
[10] "International Trade with Social Comparisons", with Zeng Lian, Lin Lu and Jie Zheng - Review of International Economics, Vol. 29 (August 2021), p. 533 - 556.
[9] "Endogenous Rewards Promote Cooperation", with Chun-lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Gary Charness and Cong Li - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, No. 40 (October 2018), p. 9968 - 9973.
[8] “Are Work Intensity and Healthy Eating Substitutes? Field Evidence on Food Choices under Varying Workloads”, with Jie Zheng - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 145 (January 2018), p. 370 - 401.
[7] “Ex-Ante Fairness in the Boston and Serial Dictatorship Mechanisms under Pre-exam and Post-exam Preference Submission”, with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong - Games and Economic Behavior, Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard, Vol. 101 (January 2017), p. 98 - 120.
[6] "Extortion Can Outperform Generosity in the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma", with Zhijian Wang, Yanran Zhou, Jie Zheng and Bin Xu - Nature Communications, Vol. 7, No. 11125 (April 2016).
[5] “Preference Submission Timing in School Choice Matching: Testing Fairness and Efficiency in the Laboratory”, with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong – Experimental Economics, Vol. 19 (March 2016), p. 116 - 150.
[4] “Selling to Biased Believers: Strategies of Online Lottery Ticket Vendors”, with Jia Yuan – Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53 (July 2015), p. 1506 - 1521.
[3] “Deciding When to Quit: Reference-Dependence over Slot Machine Outcomes”, with Jie Zheng – American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105 (May 2015), p. 366 - 370.
[2] “The Cross-sectional ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’: Set Representativeness in Lottery Number Choices”, with Jia Yuan – Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 109 (January 2015), p. 163 - 172.
[1] “Staying Ahead and Getting Even: Risk Attitudes of Experienced Poker Players”, with David Eil – Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 87 (September 2014), p. 50 – 69.
Research Grants:
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2023 - 2024
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2020 - 2022
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2017 - 2020
Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grants, (P.I.) 2015 - 2019
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint China-Russia Research Project Grant on Transportation Systems (co-Investigator, with Jie Zheng; P.I. Mingzhi Li; Russia P.I. Vladimir V. Mazalov) 2016 - 2018
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2016 - 2018
Ministry of Education Grant for Ph.D. Researchers, (P.I.) 2014 - 2015
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Faculty Grant, (P.I.) 2014 - 2016
Nourishing the Future, 3ie: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (co-P.I.), 2013 - 2016
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2012 - 2015
Annual Fund for Humanities and Social Science, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2011-2012
Junior Faculty Start-up Research Fund, Tsinghua University, 2010
UCSD Institute for Applied Economics Grant, 2009
Graduate Student Research Grant, UCSD Department of Economics, 2009
Recent Invited Presentations:
2022 – 2023: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting, Seoul (online); Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Wuhan University Spring Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Department of Economics, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University; Shandong University Applied Micro Workshop Series: Charitable Giving and Voluntary Public Goods Provision; Central University of Finance and Economics
2021 – 2022: 2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (online); International Conference on Game Theory and Applications (online); Lingnan University
2020 – 2021: 2021 Environmental Economics Workshop, Xiamen University (online); 2021 Workshop on Industrial Organization, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; School of Economics, Shandong University; School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (online); Economic Science Association Global Meeting (online)
2019 – 2020: Econometric Society World Congress (online); 2019 Beijing Normal University Conference on Experimental Economics; 4th Resource, Environmental and Industrial Policy Workshop – Tianjin University; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Psychology and Economics; Experimental Finance 2019, Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Singapore; Singapore Economic Review Conference
2018 - 2019: 30th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University; 2019 SWUFE Economic Theory Workshop - Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; 2019 SUFE Workshop of Behavioral and Experimental Economics - Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society - Xiamen University; 2019 Beijing International Workshop on Microeconomics: Empirics, Experiments and Theory (MEET) - Beijing Foreign Studies University; China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance, School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Beijing Jiaotong University - School of Economics and Management; 5th Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; 2nd Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics; Winter Workshop on Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics - Wuhan University, Economics and Management School; Sun Yat-Sen University, Lingnan College - Department of Finance; The 6th International Conference on Transportation and Space-time Economics, Beijing Jiaotong University; Inter-departmental Research Workshop - Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
Membership: Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Chinese Economists Society, Western Economics Association, Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Economic Science Association
Languages: English (native), Chinese (intermediate), Spanish (elementary)
Citizenship: USA