About me
I grew up a small town in Hunan Province, China, home to fish and rice. I went to college in China Agricultural University, Beijing, where I found my passion in agricultural and development economics. I am interested in understanding the role of agricultural technological change in shaping societal and environmental outcomes. My PhD research looks at the impact of agricultural mechanization on the distribution of labor across economic sectors.
Research projects
The econometrics of the farm size-productivity relationship debate
We show that the econometrics methods commonly used by researchers to measure the relationship between farm size and productivity are misaligned with production theory and have quirks that make consistent estimation nearly impossible. As a result, findings have often been misinterpreted, and publication bias favors negative estimates.
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