Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Computational Economics

 

Publications

“Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality,” with Zheng Liu, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 11 (2008), pp. 314-334.

 

Working Papers

“Why Have Girls Gone to College? A Quantitative Examination of the Female College Enrollment Rate in the United States: 1955-1980,” October 2009 (under review)

 

“Health Investment over the Life-Cycle,” with Tim Halliday and Hao Zhang, October 2009 (under review)

 

“What Drives the Skill Premium: Technological Change or Demographic Variation?” (Previous title: “Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-Biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis,”) March 2009 (under review)

 

“Currency Substitution in Obstfeld-Rogoff Model,” November 2002

 

Work in Progress

“Computing Multi-state Multi-control Dynamic Programming Model: A Rapid Grid Search Algorithm,” with Hao Zhang, paper coming soon

 

“Baby Boom, Baby Bust and the Housing Price Dynamics,” with Geng Li

 

“What happens to the Mexican Skill Premium after NAFTA?” with Zheng Liu

 “Health and Portfolio Choice in Retirement: The Impact of Ambiguity,” with Lei Guo