Research

Public procurement, corruption, and firm behavior, using administrative data from low- and middle-income countries.

Working Papers

• Rigging the Scores: Procedural Corruption in Public Procurement Auctions
  Paper
• When Winning Isn’t Random: Detecting Favoritism in Public Procurement
  SSRN
• Buying Local? The Geographic Incidence of Public Procurement
  with Ming Li, Wei Lin, and Yu Wang

Work in Progress

• Greening Through Demand
  with Linsong Han and Wei Lin
• Incentivizing E-Procurement Adoption: Evidence from Ghana
  with Stuart Russell
• Fragmented Markets: Cross-Border Competition in EU Public Procurement

Publications

• Career Incentives of Local Leaders and Crisis Response: A Case Study of COVID-19 Lockdowns in China
  with Q. Huang, C. Liu, and P. Wang · European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 102180
  Article
• Impacts of Education Policies on Intergenerational Education Mobility in China
  with Y. Guo and Y. Song · China Economic Review, 2019, 55: 124–142
  Article
• Scale of Land, Enrollment of Cooperatives, and Adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Evidence from Jilin
  with S. Zheng and Z. Wang · Journal of Agrotechnical Economics (农业技术经济), 2018, 6: 92–105 (in Chinese)
  Article

Other Fields

• Gender Gaps in Mode Usage, Vehicle Ownership, and Spatial Mobility When Entering Parenthood: A Life Course Perspective
  with H.-C. Yang, L. Jin, A. Lazar, A. Todd-Blick, A. Sim, K. Wu, and C. A. Spurlock · Systems, 2023, 11(6): 314
  Article
• What Makes You Hold on to That Old Car? Joint Insights from Machine Learning and Multinomial Logit on Vehicle-Level Transaction Decisions
  with L. Jin, A. Lazar, C. Brown, A. Sim, K. Wu, S. Ravulaparthy, V. Garikapati, and C. A. Spurlock · Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2022, 3
  Article

Policy Reports

• Study on Competition in the European Union’s Public Procurement Markets (2018–2023)
  World Bank, 2025
  Report