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 University of Chicago
– Research Director, EPIC-China
– Visiting Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy and Energy Policy Institute of Chicago
• 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, Health Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
• Secondary: Political Economy, Applied Econometrics, 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
• 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
• “Air Pollution and Mortality in a High-Income High-Pollution Context: Evidence from Hong Kong”, with Chun Wai Cheung.
• “Straw Burning, PM2.5 and Health: Evidence from China”, with Tong Liu.
• “Do Expressways Affect Local Development Differentially? Evidence from China and a Demand-side Explanation”, with Yang Xie
• "Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design", with Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang.
• “Winter Heating, Air Pollution, and Acute Health Impact: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design", with Maoyong Fan.
• “Do Super Markets Adjust Prices Asymmetrically?” with Jeffrey M. Perloff, Jeffrey LaFrance and Richard Volpe.
Research in Progress
• “Water Pollution and Health in China”
• “Winter Heating, Fine Particulate Matter, and Mortality”
• “Pollution and Land Price”
• “Exploring the Determinants of Suicide in China”
• “Designing Performance Indicators to Incentive Local Government Officials”
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
• 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
• 2018(including scheduled): 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
• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, China Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Environmental Research, International Journal of Biometeorology, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Nature: Sustainability, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Society, Science
Professional Services
• World Economic Forum Young Scientists, 2018–
• HKUST IEMS Executive Committee, 2017–
• HKUST Sustainability Education Advisory Board, 2017–
• Editorial Board Member, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2015–now
• Seminar Committee, Division of Social Science, HKUST, 2016–2017
• 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 University of Chicago
– Research Director, EPIC-China
– Visiting Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy and Energy Policy Institute of Chicago
• 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, Health Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
• Secondary: Political Economy, Applied Econometrics, 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
• 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
• “Air Pollution and Mortality in a High-Income High-Pollution Context: Evidence from Hong Kong”, with Chun Wai Cheung.
• “Straw Burning, PM2.5 and Health: Evidence from China”, with Tong Liu.
• “Do Expressways Affect Local Development Differentially? Evidence from China and a Demand-side Explanation”, with Yang Xie
• "Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design", with Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang.
• “Winter Heating, Air Pollution, and Acute Health Impact: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design", with Maoyong Fan.
• “Do Super Markets Adjust Prices Asymmetrically?” with Jeffrey M. Perloff, Jeffrey LaFrance and Richard Volpe.
Research in Progress
• “Water Pollution and Health in China”
• “Winter Heating, Fine Particulate Matter, and Mortality”
• “Pollution and Land Price”
• “Exploring the Determinants of Suicide in China”
• “Designing Performance Indicators to Incentive Local Government Officials”
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
• 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
• 2018(including scheduled): 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
• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, China Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Environmental Research, International Journal of Biometeorology, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Nature: Sustainability, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Society, Science
Professional Services
• World Economic Forum Young Scientists, 2018–
• HKUST IEMS Executive Committee, 2017–
• HKUST Sustainability Education Advisory Board, 2017–
• Editorial Board Member, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2015–now
• Seminar Committee, Division of Social Science, HKUST, 2016–2017
• 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