About Me

I am an applied economist with research interests in poverty alleviation, labor markets, early childhood development, women’s empowerment, and other key issues in development economics. A large fraction of my work focuses on one of China’s large-scale Moving to Opportunity programs—the Poverty Alleviation Relocation Program—which relocated approximately 9.6 million impoverish individuals from mountainous and remote areas during 2016-2020.

Since September 2024, I have been serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics and Management at the Tongji University. I am also a member of the Youth Committee of the China Agricultural Economics Association.

Research interests

• Development Economics (poverty alleviation, women empowerment, early childhood development, rural-urban migration)
• Health Economics (midwife training)
• Urban Economics (the interaction between housing regulations and household behaviors)
• Economic History (the Great Leap Famine, Household Responsibility System, and other key events)