Education
Boston University, Ph.D., Economics, 2019 - 2025
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Political Economics
Dissertation Committee: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Martin Fiszbein, Benjamin Marx
Xiamen University (WISE), B.A., Economics (with highest honor), 2015 - 2019
*UC Berkeley, Visiting Student, 2018
Conference & Seminar Presentations
2025: PacDev Conference (UCLA & USC), ASSA Annual Meeting, NAWM-ES, HKU, HKUST, SJTU-Antai, Jinan U, Peking U (NSD), UIBE
2024: NBER Development Economics Program Meeting, CEPR Paris, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Chinese Economists Society North America Annual Conference
2023: Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Conference*, ASSA Annual Meeting
2022: The Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC, Yale), Development & Political Economics Graduate Conference (Stanford)
Fellowships and Awards
Rosenstein-Rodan Prize for Best Essay in Development Economics, Boston University, 2024
Best Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University, 2022
Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University, 2019 - 2024
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education (China), 2017
Summer School
Price Theory Summer Camp, University of Chicago, 2022
Research Assistant
Research Assistant for Raymond Fisman (BU), 2022 - 2023
Research Assistant for Guo Xu (Berkeley Haas), 2018
Research Assistant for Xi Yang (XMU WISE), 2016
Departmental Service
Development Reading Group (Co-Organizer), Boston University, Fall 2021 - Spring 2023