Academic Appointment
• July 2014 – Present Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
– Assistant Professor, Jointly at Division of Social Science, Division of Environment & Sustainability, and Department of Economics
– Faculty Associate, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Institute for Public Policy, and Institute for the Environment
• Sep. 2018 – Present Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC)
– Research Director, EPIC-China
• Dec. 2019 University of Chicago
– Visiting Scholar, Becker-Friedman Institute and Energy Policy Institute
• Aug. 2013 – July 2014 Harvard University
– Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Interests
• Primary: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
• Secondary: Environmental Health, Public Health
Education
• July 2008 – Aug. 2013 University of California, Berkeley
– Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Sep. 2004 – May 2008 Peking University
– B.A. in Economics
Publications
• Fan, Maoyong, Guojun He, and Maigeng Zhou. "The Winter Choke: Coal-Fired Heating, Air Pollution, and Mortality in China", Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
• Chun Wai Cheung, Guojun He, and Yuhang Pan. "Mitigating the Air Pollution Effect? The Remarkable Decline in the Pollution-Mortality Relationship in Hong Kong", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
• Liu, Tong, Guojun He, and Alexis Lau. “Statistical Analyses of the Impacts of Agricultural Straw Burning on Urban Air Quality in China”, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 711: 134633.
• Liu, Tong, Guojun He, and Alexis Lau. “Avoidance Behavior against Air Pollution: Evidence from Online Search Indices for Anti-PM2.5 Masks and Air Filters in Chinese Cities”, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2018, 20(2), pp 325-363.
• He, Guojun and Shaoda Wang. “Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(4), pp 186-215.
• Ebenstein, Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He*, and Maigeng Zhou. “New Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy” (*co-first author), Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (IF 10), 2017, 114(39), pp. 10384-10389.
• Yin, Peng, Guojun He*, Maoyong Fan, et al. “Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 38 of China's Largest Cities: Time-Series Analysis” (*co-first author), The BMJ (IF 21), 2017, 356: j667.
• He, Guojun, Maoyong Fan, and Maigeng Zhou. “The Effect of Air Pollution on Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016 (09), Vol. (79), pp. 18–39.
• He, Guojun and Jeffrey M. Perloff. “Surface Water Pollution and Infant Mortality in China”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, Vol. (65), pp. 119–139.
• Ebenstein, Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Peng Yin and Maigeng Zhou. “Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991-2012”, American Economic Review (P&P), 2015, (5), pp. 226–231.
• Zhou, Maigeng, Guojun He, Yunning Liu, et al. “The Associations between Ambient Air Pollution and Adult Respiratory Mortality in 32 Major Chinese Cities, 2006-2010”, Environmental Research (IF 4). 2015 (137), pp. 278–286.
• Zhou, Maigeng, Guojun He*, Maoyong Fan, et al. “Smog Episodes, Fine Particulate Pollution and Mortality in China” (co-first author), Environmental Research (IF 4). 2015 (136), pp. 396–404.
• He, Guojun and J. M. Perloff. “Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, Vol. 66 (2), pp. 511-524.
Pre-Doctoral Publications in Chinese
• He, Guojun and Chong Xu. “Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers' Salaries: Human Capital or Social Capital?”, Journal of Agricultural and Technical Economics (Chinese), 2008 (1), pp. 57–65.
• He, Guojun, Chong Xu, and Chengcai Zhu. “Peasant Households' Willingness to Circulate Contractual Land–Evidences from Beijing Villages”, Economic Science (Chinese), 2007 (05), pp. 111–124.
Working Papers
• "Leveraging Political Incentives for Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms" (with Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang)
• “Guns and Roses: Police Complicity in Prostitution” (with Wenwei Peng)
• “Expressways, GDP and Pollution: Evidence from China and an Exploratory Model” (with Yang Xie and
Bing Zhang)
• “Straw Burning, PM2.5 and Death: Evidence from China” (with Tong Liu and Maigeng Zhou)
• “The Impact of Clean Water on Infant Mortality: Evidence from China” (with Maoyong Fan)
• “Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Experimental Evidence from China” (with Alain de
Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Shaoda Wang, and Qiong Zhang)
• “Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China” (with
Michael Greenstone, Ruixue Jia, Tong Liu)
• “Energy Saving Can Kill: Evidence from Fukushima Nuclear Accident” (with Takanao Tanaka)
Research in Progress
• Pollution alerts, contingency regulations, and the economic costs
• Environmental regulation and marginal abatement costs of China’s manufacturing firms
• The selection and making of civil servants
• Understanding the political economy of crimes
• Trends and determinants of suicide
• Subsidies, EVs, and air quality
Book Chapters
• Chapter 3. “Anomalies in the Financial Market”, with Chong Xu, in Behavioral Finance (Chinese), Edited by Z. Dong. Peking University Press, 2009.
• Chapter 4. “Common Goods and Public Resources in Rural China”, Economics in New Rural Areas (Chinese), Edited by Z. Dong. Tsinghua University Press, 2008.
Translation
• “Muhammad Yunus: Micro Finance - An Important Way of Poverty Alleviation”, with C. Xu, Economic Science (Chinese), 2006 (06), pp. 5–10.
Awards and Grant
• 2019 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Science
• 2018 Nominated as a Fellow of World Economic Forum Young Scientists Class of 2018
• 2018 PI – IEMS Research Grant, HKUST
• 2018 Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society Annual North America Conference
• 2017 Masahiko Aoki Best Paper Nomination Award
• 2017 PI – PEDL Research Grant, CEPR research initiative, UK
• 2017 PI – General Research Fund, University Grants Committee of HK
• 2017 China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) Rising Scholar Best Paper Award
• 2017 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Science
• 2016 PI – Early Career Scheme, University Grants Committee of HK
• 2016 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST Business School
• 2016 Co-PI – Research Equipment Competition, Co-Investigator, HKUST
• 2015 Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society Annual China Conference
• 2015 Young Scholar Best Paper Award, International Paper Competition on China's Urban, Housing and Environmental Issues, Tsinghua University and MIT
• 2015 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Sciences
• 2015 PI – IEMS Research Grant, HKUST
• 2014 PI – Faculty Initiation Grant, HKUST
• 2014 Harvard School of Public Health Post-Doctoral Researcher Fellowship, Harvard University
• 2013 Institute of Business and Economic Research Dissertation Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2013 WEAI Selected Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop Fellowship, Seattle
• 2012 Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2011 Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2009 International Graduate Student Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2008 Graduate with Honors, Peking University
• 2008 University Award for Academic Creativities, Peking University
• 2007 1st Prize in the 4th “Ping’An China National Students Academic Competition”
• 2007 1st Prize in the 15th “Challenge Cup” Student Academic Competition, Peking University
Teaching
• “Economics for Environmental Policy and Management”, HKUST
• “Introductory Environmental and Health Economics”, HKUST
• “Introductory Environmental Economics”, HKUST
• “Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources” (TA), UC Berkeley, 2012 Spring
Conference and Seminar Presentations
• 2019: ASSA, Atlanta; Tsinghua University, Beijing; University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing; WEAI International Conference, Tokyo, Japan; Jinan University, Guangzhou; Fudan University, Shanghai; Nanjing
University, Nanjing; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai; Nankai-Yale Conference, Tianjin; NBER
Summer Institute, Boston; China Economics Summer Institute, Peking University; WISE, Xiamen University; NBER-Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting; Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago
• 2018: NBER-Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, Boston; National School of Development, Peking University; CIDEG, Tsinghua University; Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University; Department of Economics, Singapore Management University; Department of Economics, National School of Singapore; Econometric Society China Meeting, Shanghai; Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Seoul; World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg; School of Economics, Fudan University; Institute of Emerging Market Studies, HKUST; Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University
• 2017: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan; HKUST IEMS Seminar; China Economics Summer Institute, Tsinghua University; NBER Summer Institute, Boston; EAERE Annual Meeting, Athens; Workshop in Environmental Economics, National School of Development, Peking University; Center for Environmental Management and Policy Analysis, Nanjing University; CES Annual Meeting, Nanjing; Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Hong Kong; Institute of Public Policy Seminar, HKUST; Department of Economics Seminar, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Environmental Research Center Seminar, Duke Kunshan University; Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National School of Development, Peking University; New York University Shanghai; Jinan University, Guangzhou
• 2016: Institute of Advanced Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Department of Economics, Fudan University; HKUST IEMS Empirical Development Seminar; The Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, MIT, Boston; “Green Cities in Asia” Workshop, Tsinghua University; Econometric Society China Meeting, Chengdu; Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing; Fudan-UC Young Scholars Conference, UCSD; NBER Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting, Cambridge; AEA Meeting, San Francisco.
• 2015: CES Annual Meeting, Chongqing; The 4th RUSE workshop, Tsinghua University; Political Economy Seminar, HKUST.
• 2014: Economics Department Seminar, HKUST; NBER Conference on the Economics of Environmental Protection in China, Cambridge; Environmental Statistics Seminar, Harvard School of Public Health.
• 2013: ERE seminar, UC Berkeley; WEAI 88th Annual Conference; China Initiative Seminar, Harvard School of Public Health.
Journals Refereed
• Economics Journals: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, China Economic Review (3), Economic Development and Cultural Change (2), Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Development Economics (3), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (4), Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Resource and Energy Economics
• Science Journals:
Atmespheric Pollution Research, Environmental Research, International Journal of Biometeorology, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Nature: Sustainability, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Society, Science, Sustainability
Professional Services
• Associate Editor, Environment and Development Economics, 2019–
• SEEE Committee for HKUST Guangzhou Campus, 2019–
• World Economic Forum Young Scientists, 2018–
• HKUST IEMS Executive Committee, 2017–2019
• HKUST Sustainability Education Advisory Board, 2017–2019
• Editorial Board Member, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2015–now
• Seminar Committee, Division of Social Science, HKUST, 2016–2017 and 2018-2019
• Judge, The 14th National Challenge Cup Theme-Based Competition, 2016
• Search Committee, Department of Economics, Division of Social Science and Division of Environment, HKUST, 2014–2016
• Coordinator, the 3rd and 4th U.S.-China Health Summit, Harvard School of Public Health and Peking Union School of Public Health, 2013–2014
• Admission Committee Member, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, 2011
• July 2014 – Present Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
– Assistant Professor, Jointly at Division of Social Science, Division of Environment & Sustainability, and Department of Economics
– Faculty Associate, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Institute for Public Policy, and Institute for the Environment
• Sep. 2018 – Present Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC)
– Research Director, EPIC-China
• Dec. 2019 University of Chicago
– Visiting Scholar, Becker-Friedman Institute and Energy Policy Institute
• Aug. 2013 – July 2014 Harvard University
– Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Interests
• Primary: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
• Secondary: Environmental Health, Public Health
Education
• July 2008 – Aug. 2013 University of California, Berkeley
– Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Sep. 2004 – May 2008 Peking University
– B.A. in Economics
Publications
• Fan, Maoyong, Guojun He, and Maigeng Zhou. "The Winter Choke: Coal-Fired Heating, Air Pollution, and Mortality in China", Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
• Chun Wai Cheung, Guojun He, and Yuhang Pan. "Mitigating the Air Pollution Effect? The Remarkable Decline in the Pollution-Mortality Relationship in Hong Kong", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
• Liu, Tong, Guojun He, and Alexis Lau. “Statistical Analyses of the Impacts of Agricultural Straw Burning on Urban Air Quality in China”, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 711: 134633.
• Liu, Tong, Guojun He, and Alexis Lau. “Avoidance Behavior against Air Pollution: Evidence from Online Search Indices for Anti-PM2.5 Masks and Air Filters in Chinese Cities”, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2018, 20(2), pp 325-363.
• He, Guojun and Shaoda Wang. “Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(4), pp 186-215.
• Ebenstein, Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He*, and Maigeng Zhou. “New Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy” (*co-first author), Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (IF 10), 2017, 114(39), pp. 10384-10389.
• Yin, Peng, Guojun He*, Maoyong Fan, et al. “Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 38 of China's Largest Cities: Time-Series Analysis” (*co-first author), The BMJ (IF 21), 2017, 356: j667.
• He, Guojun, Maoyong Fan, and Maigeng Zhou. “The Effect of Air Pollution on Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016 (09), Vol. (79), pp. 18–39.
• He, Guojun and Jeffrey M. Perloff. “Surface Water Pollution and Infant Mortality in China”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, Vol. (65), pp. 119–139.
• Ebenstein, Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Peng Yin and Maigeng Zhou. “Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991-2012”, American Economic Review (P&P), 2015, (5), pp. 226–231.
• Zhou, Maigeng, Guojun He, Yunning Liu, et al. “The Associations between Ambient Air Pollution and Adult Respiratory Mortality in 32 Major Chinese Cities, 2006-2010”, Environmental Research (IF 4). 2015 (137), pp. 278–286.
• Zhou, Maigeng, Guojun He*, Maoyong Fan, et al. “Smog Episodes, Fine Particulate Pollution and Mortality in China” (co-first author), Environmental Research (IF 4). 2015 (136), pp. 396–404.
• He, Guojun and J. M. Perloff. “Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, Vol. 66 (2), pp. 511-524.
Pre-Doctoral Publications in Chinese
• He, Guojun and Chong Xu. “Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers' Salaries: Human Capital or Social Capital?”, Journal of Agricultural and Technical Economics (Chinese), 2008 (1), pp. 57–65.
• He, Guojun, Chong Xu, and Chengcai Zhu. “Peasant Households' Willingness to Circulate Contractual Land–Evidences from Beijing Villages”, Economic Science (Chinese), 2007 (05), pp. 111–124.
Working Papers
• "Leveraging Political Incentives for Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms" (with Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang)
• “Guns and Roses: Police Complicity in Prostitution” (with Wenwei Peng)
• “Expressways, GDP and Pollution: Evidence from China and an Exploratory Model” (with Yang Xie and
Bing Zhang)
• “Straw Burning, PM2.5 and Death: Evidence from China” (with Tong Liu and Maigeng Zhou)
• “The Impact of Clean Water on Infant Mortality: Evidence from China” (with Maoyong Fan)
• “Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Experimental Evidence from China” (with Alain de
Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Shaoda Wang, and Qiong Zhang)
• “Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China” (with
Michael Greenstone, Ruixue Jia, Tong Liu)
• “Energy Saving Can Kill: Evidence from Fukushima Nuclear Accident” (with Takanao Tanaka)
Research in Progress
• Pollution alerts, contingency regulations, and the economic costs
• Environmental regulation and marginal abatement costs of China’s manufacturing firms
• The selection and making of civil servants
• Understanding the political economy of crimes
• Trends and determinants of suicide
• Subsidies, EVs, and air quality
Book Chapters
• Chapter 3. “Anomalies in the Financial Market”, with Chong Xu, in Behavioral Finance (Chinese), Edited by Z. Dong. Peking University Press, 2009.
• Chapter 4. “Common Goods and Public Resources in Rural China”, Economics in New Rural Areas (Chinese), Edited by Z. Dong. Tsinghua University Press, 2008.
Translation
• “Muhammad Yunus: Micro Finance - An Important Way of Poverty Alleviation”, with C. Xu, Economic Science (Chinese), 2006 (06), pp. 5–10.
Awards and Grant
• 2019 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Science
• 2018 Nominated as a Fellow of World Economic Forum Young Scientists Class of 2018
• 2018 PI – IEMS Research Grant, HKUST
• 2018 Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society Annual North America Conference
• 2017 Masahiko Aoki Best Paper Nomination Award
• 2017 PI – PEDL Research Grant, CEPR research initiative, UK
• 2017 PI – General Research Fund, University Grants Committee of HK
• 2017 China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) Rising Scholar Best Paper Award
• 2017 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Science
• 2016 PI – Early Career Scheme, University Grants Committee of HK
• 2016 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST Business School
• 2016 Co-PI – Research Equipment Competition, Co-Investigator, HKUST
• 2015 Gregory Chow Best Paper Award, Chinese Economists Society Annual China Conference
• 2015 Young Scholar Best Paper Award, International Paper Competition on China's Urban, Housing and Environmental Issues, Tsinghua University and MIT
• 2015 PI – SBI Research Grant, HKUST School of Humanity and Social Sciences
• 2015 PI – IEMS Research Grant, HKUST
• 2014 PI – Faculty Initiation Grant, HKUST
• 2014 Harvard School of Public Health Post-Doctoral Researcher Fellowship, Harvard University
• 2013 Institute of Business and Economic Research Dissertation Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2013 WEAI Selected Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop Fellowship, Seattle
• 2012 Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2011 Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2009 International Graduate Student Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2008 Graduate with Honors, Peking University
• 2008 University Award for Academic Creativities, Peking University
• 2007 1st Prize in the 4th “Ping’An China National Students Academic Competition”
• 2007 1st Prize in the 15th “Challenge Cup” Student Academic Competition, Peking University
Teaching
• “Economics for Environmental Policy and Management”, HKUST
• “Introductory Environmental and Health Economics”, HKUST
• “Introductory Environmental Economics”, HKUST
• “Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources” (TA), UC Berkeley, 2012 Spring
Conference and Seminar Presentations
• 2019: ASSA, Atlanta; Tsinghua University, Beijing; University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing; WEAI International Conference, Tokyo, Japan; Jinan University, Guangzhou; Fudan University, Shanghai; Nanjing
University, Nanjing; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai; Nankai-Yale Conference, Tianjin; NBER
Summer Institute, Boston; China Economics Summer Institute, Peking University; WISE, Xiamen University; NBER-Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting; Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago
• 2018: NBER-Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, Boston; National School of Development, Peking University; CIDEG, Tsinghua University; Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University; Department of Economics, Singapore Management University; Department of Economics, National School of Singapore; Econometric Society China Meeting, Shanghai; Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Seoul; World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg; School of Economics, Fudan University; Institute of Emerging Market Studies, HKUST; Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University
• 2017: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan; HKUST IEMS Seminar; China Economics Summer Institute, Tsinghua University; NBER Summer Institute, Boston; EAERE Annual Meeting, Athens; Workshop in Environmental Economics, National School of Development, Peking University; Center for Environmental Management and Policy Analysis, Nanjing University; CES Annual Meeting, Nanjing; Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Hong Kong; Institute of Public Policy Seminar, HKUST; Department of Economics Seminar, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Environmental Research Center Seminar, Duke Kunshan University; Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National School of Development, Peking University; New York University Shanghai; Jinan University, Guangzhou
• 2016: Institute of Advanced Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Department of Economics, Fudan University; HKUST IEMS Empirical Development Seminar; The Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, MIT, Boston; “Green Cities in Asia” Workshop, Tsinghua University; Econometric Society China Meeting, Chengdu; Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing; Fudan-UC Young Scholars Conference, UCSD; NBER Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting, Cambridge; AEA Meeting, San Francisco.
• 2015: CES Annual Meeting, Chongqing; The 4th RUSE workshop, Tsinghua University; Political Economy Seminar, HKUST.
• 2014: Economics Department Seminar, HKUST; NBER Conference on the Economics of Environmental Protection in China, Cambridge; Environmental Statistics Seminar, Harvard School of Public Health.
• 2013: ERE seminar, UC Berkeley; WEAI 88th Annual Conference; China Initiative Seminar, Harvard School of Public Health.
Journals Refereed
• Economics Journals: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, China Economic Review (3), Economic Development and Cultural Change (2), Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Development Economics (3), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (4), Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Resource and Energy Economics
• Science Journals:
Atmespheric Pollution Research, Environmental Research, International Journal of Biometeorology, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Nature: Sustainability, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Society, Science, Sustainability
Professional Services
• Associate Editor, Environment and Development Economics, 2019–
• SEEE Committee for HKUST Guangzhou Campus, 2019–
• World Economic Forum Young Scientists, 2018–
• HKUST IEMS Executive Committee, 2017–2019
• HKUST Sustainability Education Advisory Board, 2017–2019
• Editorial Board Member, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2015–now
• Seminar Committee, Division of Social Science, HKUST, 2016–2017 and 2018-2019
• Judge, The 14th National Challenge Cup Theme-Based Competition, 2016
• Search Committee, Department of Economics, Division of Social Science and Division of Environment, HKUST, 2014–2016
• Coordinator, the 3rd and 4th U.S.-China Health Summit, Harvard School of Public Health and Peking Union School of Public Health, 2013–2014
• Admission Committee Member, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, 2011