Selected working papers

1. Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Xi Chen, Yun Qiu and Pei Yu. IZA DP No.15038.

Publications

1. A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Reverse Mortgage Borrower Behavior, with Jason Blevins, Donald Haurin and Stephanie Moulton, International Economic Review, 2020, 61(4), 1437-1477.
2. Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, with Yun Qiu and Xi Chen, Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(4), 1127-1172. 2021 Kuznets Prize; GLO discussion paper.
3. The Effects of Gun Control on Crimes: A Spatial Interactive Fixed-Effects Approach, with Lung-fei Lee, Empirical Economics, 2018, 55. 10.1007/s00181-017-1415-2.
4. ​The Accuracy of Senior Households’ Estimates of Home Values: Application to the Reverse Mortgage Decision, with Donald Haurin and Stephanie Moulton, Real Estate Economics, 2018, 46. 10.1111/1540-6229.12197.
5. A Spatial Panel Data Model with Time Varying Endogenous Weights Matrices and Common Factors​, with Lung-fei Lee, ​​​Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 72. 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.03.007. Matlab program: estimation, simulation.
6. ​Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects, with Lung-fei Lee, Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 197. 10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.12.001. Supplementary file. Matlab program: estimation, simulation.
7. Spatial Variation in Reverse Mortgages Usage: House Price Dynamics and Consumer Selection, with Donald Haurin, Chao Ma, Stephanie Moulton, Max Schmeiser and Jason Seligman, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2016, 53, 392-417. Working paper version.
8. An Analysis of Default Risk in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Program, with Stephanie Moulton and Donald Haurin, Journal of Urban Economics, 2015, 90, 17-34. Published version. Working paper version.