国际发表/Int Publications

Publications & Forthcoming

He, Fan, Wei Huang,* Yinghao Pan,* Jiao Wang.* Public Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: The Lasting Effects of Disease Control in China. Forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics.
Cao, Zengdong, Wei Huang, Jinyang Ren and Hantao Wu. E-Commerce as a Driver of Gender Equity: Labor Supply and Household Outcomes in Rural China. Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources.
Huang, Wei, Qingyuan Li, Xiaoyan Lei, and Yan Shen. Digital Infrastructure as Community Care: BCP Exposure and Elderly Health in China. Forthcoming at Journal of Comparative Economics.
Huang, Wei, Hai Huang, Haotian Zhang,* Wei Zheng. Migration Incentives and Elderly Health: Evidence from the Hukou Reforms in China. Journal of Development Economics 184 (2027): 103903.
Huang, Wei, Luoqi Yuan* and Hong Zou.* The Enduring Health Impact of Early-life Exposure to the 1910–1911 Manchurian Plague. Journal of Population Economics (2026) 39: 55 .
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, Shuang Qiu.* When Fewer Children Mean Shorter Lives: Fertility Policy and Elderly Well-Being in China. Journal of Health Economics (2026): 103152.
Huang, Wei, Qingfeng Liu, Jianwei Xing,* Shilin Zheng. Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Tenure-Track Systems and the Rise of Academic Innovation in China. Economic Journal 136, no. 676 (2026): 1394–1439.
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, Guangjun Shen, and Ang Sun. Beyond Nature and Nurture: The Impact of China’s Compulsory Schooling Law on Selection Against High-Risk Fetuses Journal of Human Resources , March 2026, 61 (2) 453-486
He, Zeyi, Zhi-An Hu, Wei Huang,* and Yankun Kang. Tourism Growth, Education Decline: Evidence from China’s 5A Attraction Expansion. Journal of Urban Economics 150 (2025): 103811.
He, Fan, Wei Huang, Tim Liao, Yuanyuan, Ma.* Trade Liberalization and Gender Dynamics: The Impact of Policy Uncertainty on Sex Ratios at Birth in China. Journal of Comparative Economics (2026) 54: 273–294.
Huang, Wei, Keyan Xiang, Xi Yu, Hong Zou.* Polluted Air, Healthier Diets: Household Food Consumption Patterns in Response to Air Quality in China. Journal of Health Economics 104 (2025): 103068.
Huang, Wei, Yinghao Pan,* Yi Zhou.* One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion and Welfare Loss. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2025; 107 (5): 1341–1355.
Huang, Wei, Xiaoyan Lei, and Chunfeng Zhang. Green Retirement: The Impact of Retirement on Carbon Emissions through Consumption and Income Dynamics. Journal of Comparative Economics 53 (2025): 717-753.
Huang, Hai, Wei Huang, Xinzheng Shi, and Ming-ang Zhang.* Gender Peer Effects and Social Determinants in a High-Stakes Examination. Journal of Development Economics (2025): 103509.
Huang, Wei,* Mi Luo, Yueping Song,* Yiping Wang, Hantao Wu. Poverty Spillovers in Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Randomized Class Assignments in China. Journal of Public Economics (2025): 105334.
Huang, Wei, Yiping Wang, Hantao Wu, and Yi Zhou.* Motherhood Penalty and Low Fertility in China: A Pseudo-Event Study. Journal of Population Economics (2025) 38:28.
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, Xiaoyan Lei, and Yuqi Ta.* How Does Undervaluation in Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) Affect Healthcare Utilization? Evidence from Administrative Data in China. Journal of Health Economics (2024): 102946.
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.
Luo, Wei, Wei Huang,* and Albert Park. Social Norms and the Impact of Early Life Events on Gender Inequality. Journal of Human Resources (2024, online).
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

Property Rights for the Aging Population: Labor and Welfare Responses to Land Reform in China. with Xiaoyan Lei, Shuang Qiu, Yuqi Ta. Revision Requested at Journal of Labor Economics.
When Savings Accounts Become Spending Accounts: Behavioral and Welfare Consequences of Earmarked Health Accounts. with Xiaoyan Lei, Yuqi Ta. Revision Requested at Review of Economics and Statistics.
Beyond Earnings: Higher Education and the Composition of Household Consumption. with Ruisi Cai, Xiangyuan Ding, Jinyang Ren. Revision Requested at European Economic Review.
Human Capital as Insurance: Education Responses to Labor Market Uncertainty. with Kai Chen, Fuming Jia, Guangjun Shen. Revision Requested at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
What is in ‘Moral Hazard’ of Health Insurance? Evidence from Quasi Experiments in China. with Chuanchuan Zhang.

Book Chapters / 学术专著

黄炜、张川川：《社会养老金的力量：中国新型农村养老保险计划的证据》，载：李实等主编《人的发展经济学研究（第一辑）：促进人的全面发展》，参编章节，中国财富出版社，2025，页码483–504。(学术专著)
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.