Publications & Forthcoming
How Does Undervaluation in Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) Affect Healthcare Utilization? Evidence from Administrative Data in China. with Xiaoyan Lei and Yuqi Ta. Accepted by Journal of Health Economics.
Motherhood Penalty and Low Fertility in China: A Pseudo-Event Study. with Yiping Wang, Hantao Wu, and Yi Zhou. Accepted by Journal of Population Economics.
Luo, Wei, Wei Huang,* and Albert Park. Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality. Journal of Human Resources (Forthcoming). doi: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1020-11229R3
Huang, Wei, Yinghao Pan, and Yi Zhou. One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion and Welfare Loss. The Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming). doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01332
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, Guangjun Shen, and Ang Sun. Beyond Nature and Nurture: The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Health. Journal of Human Resources (Forthcoming). doi: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0220-10720R4
Guo, Naijia, Wei Huang,* and Ruixin Wang. Public Pensions and Family Dynamics: Eldercare, Child Investment, and Son Preference in Rural China. Journal of Development Economics (2025): 103390.
Huang, Wei, Mi Luo, Yuqi Ta, and Boxian Wang. Land Expropriation, Household Behaviors, and Health Outcomes: Evidence from China. Journal of Development Economics (2024): 103358.
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, and Miao Yu. Economic Policy Uncertainty, Health Status, and Mortality. Social Science & Medicine (2024): 117227.
Hu, Zhi-An, Wei Huang,* Wei Luo, Wuyue You, and Chuanchuan Zhang. The Educational and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Exposure to Rural Land Decollectivization in China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 228 (2024): 106771.
Huang, Wei, Teng Li, Yinghao Pan, and Jinyang Ren. Teacher Characteristics and Student Performance: Evidence from Random Teacher-Student Assignments in China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 214 (2023): 747-781.
Huang, Wei, and Hong Liu. Early Childhood Exposure to Health Insurance and Adolescent Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China. Journal of Development Economics 160 (2023): 102925.
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, and Ang Sun. Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One Child Policy in China. The Review of Economics and Statistics 103, no. 4 (2021): 694-710.
Huang, Wei, and Chuanchuan Zhang. The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13, no. 2 (2021): 179-205.
Dai, Mi, Wei Huang,* and Yifan Zhang. How Do Households Adjust to Tariff Liberalization? Evidence from China’s WTO Accession. Journal of Development Economics 150 (2021): 102628.
Dai, Mi, Wei Huang,* and Yifan Zhang. Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions: The Case of China’s Tariff Liberalization after WTO Accession. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 178 (2020): 566-581.
Glaeser, Edward, Wei Huang, Yueran Ma, and Andrei Shleifer. A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics. Journal of Economic Perspectives 31, no. 1 (2017): 93-116.
Huang, Wei. How does the One Child Policy Impact Social and Economic Outcomes? IZA World of Labor (2017).
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, and Yaohui Zhao. One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-made Twins. The Review of Economics and Statistics 98, no. 3 (2016): 467-476.
Freeman, Richard B., and Wei Huang. Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US. Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. S1 (2015): S289-S318.
Huang, Wei. Do ABCs Get More Citations than XYZs? Economic Inquiry 53, no. 1 (2015): 773-789.
Cutler, David M., Wei Huang, and Adriana Lleras-Muney. When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times. Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015): 63-73.
Freeman, Richard B., and Wei Huang. Collaboration: Strength in Diversity. Nature 513, no. 7518 (2014): 305-305.
Huang, Wei, and Yi Zhou. Effects of Education on Cognition at Older Ages: Evidence from China’s Great Famine. Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013): 54-62.
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss, and Yaohui Zhao. Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5, no. 2 (2013): 86-121.
Working Papers
Externality of Poverty on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Random Class Assignments in China. with Yueping Song, Yiping Wang, and Hantao Wu. Revision Requested at Journal of Public Economics.
Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Tenure-Track Systems and the Rise of Academic Innovation in China. with Qingfeng Liu, Jianwei Xing, and Shilin Zheng. Revision Requested at Economic Journal.
The Lasting Impact of Early-Life Exposure to ‘Black Death’: Evidence from 1910-1911 Manchurian Plague in China. with Luoqi Yuan. (Under Review)
Gender Peer Effects and Social Determinants in a High-Stakes Examination. with Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang. (Under Review)
What is in ‘Moral Hazard’ of Health Insurance? Evidence from Quasi Experiments in China. with Chuanchuan Zhang.
How do Spot Price and Future Price Affect Healthcare Usage? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments in China. with Jin Feng, Hong Song, and Zhen Wang.
How Does Household Consumption Respond to Pension Increases? Evidence from Monthly Panel Data in Urban China. with Mi Luo, Yinghao Pan, and Hong Song.
Unawareness of Unhealthiness, Information Provision, and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly. with Mi Luo.
Economic Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from 200 Years of Data. with David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney.
Understanding the Effects of Education on Health: Evidence from China. with Chuanchuan Zhang.
A Theory of Multiplexity: Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relations. with Chen Cheng and Yiqing Xing. (Under Review)
Too Busy to be Cured? Impacts of the Opportunity Cost of Time on Healthcare Utilization. with Xiangyuan Ding, Yuqi Ta and Yi Zhou.
Connecting the Elderly: Health Benefits and Social Support from Broadband China Policy. with Qingyuan Li, Xiaoyan Lei, and Yan Shen.
Stock Market Crash, Peer Stockholding, and Household Potfolio Choice. with Yanfei Dong, and Yiping Huang. (Under Review)
Working in Progress
The Power of Market-wide Health Insurance Expansion: Evidence from New Cooperation Medical Scheme in China. with Hongqiao Fu, Xiaoyan Lei, Zeyu Liu, and Ge Yin.
Internet Connection, Development and Social Multiplier Effect: Evidence from Rural China. with Yiping Wang, and Hantao Wu.
Book Chapters
Holzer, Harry J., and Wei Huang. “Richard B. Freeman (1943–).” The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. 731-754.
Freeman, Richard B., and Wei Huang. “China’s “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering.” Global Mobility of Research Scientists. Academic Press, 2015. 155-175.