{"id":693,"date":"2016-03-24T19:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/juzhang\/?page_id=693"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:03:21","slug":"working-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/juzhang\/working-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan K. Brueckner, Wenhua Liu, Wei Xiao, and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/juzhang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2025\/11\/UrbanExpansion_JEG_Final.pdf\"><u>Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities<\/u><\/a>,\u201d November 2025. Accepted for publication in <em>Journal of Economic Geography<\/em>. An earlier version was circulated as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cesifo.org\/DocDL\/cesifo1_wp10181.pdf\"><u>CESifo Working Paper No. 10181<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chunbing Xing, Xiaoyan Yuan, and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2022\/06\/GenderWageGap.pdf\"><u>City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d September 2022, available as <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp15549.pdf\"><u>IZA DP No. 15549<\/u><\/a>. Accepted for publication in <em>Regional Science and Urban Economics<\/em>. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2022\/06\/OnlineAppendix.pdf\"><u>Online Appendix<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2022\/05\/stringency.pdf\"><u>Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation: A Shadow Price Approach<\/u><\/a>,\u201d May 2022. Accepted for publication in <em>Journal of Urban Economics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Chao Fang, Ernest Zhang, and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2021\/05\/GenderGapInCompetition.pdf\"><u>Do Women Give up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers<\/u><\/a>,\u201d May 2021, published in <em>Economics Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Liao and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp13836.pdf\"><u>Hukou Status, Housing Tenure Choice and Wealth Accumulation in Urban China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d November 2020, available as <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp13836.pdf\"><u>IZA DP No. 13836<\/u><\/a>. Published in <em>China Economic Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2021\/01\/LandConversionRSUE_final.pdf\"><u>Land Conversion across Cities in China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d November 2020, published in <em>Regional Science and Urban Economics<\/em>. (An early version of this paper, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolninst.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/pubfiles\/fu_wp19sf1.pdf\"><u>Land Conversion and Misallocation across Cities in China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d was circulated as a working paper by the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolninst.edu\/\"><u>Lincoln Institute of Land Policy<\/u><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Yizhen Gu, Chang Jiang, Junfu Zhang, and Ben Zou, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2020\/02\/SubwayCongestion.pdf\"><u>Subways and Road Congestion<\/u><\/a>,\u201d November 2019, published in <em>American Economic Journal: Applied Economics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rui Du&nbsp;and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2016\/03\/SuperBowl.pdf\"><u>Super Bowl Participation and the Local Economy: Evidence from the Stock Market<\/u><\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;May 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2016\/03\/SuperBowlAppendix.pdf\"><u>Appendix table<\/u><\/a>). Accepted for publication in <em>Growth and Change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rui Du&nbsp;and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2018\/11\/Density_PiRS.pdf\"><u>Walled Cities and Urban Density in China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;August 2018, published in <em>Papers in Regional Science<\/em>, available <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/pirs.12415\"><u>online here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jan K. Brueckner, Shihe Fu, Yizhen Gu, and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2016\/03\/China_FAR_Final.pdf\"><u>Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of China&#8217;s Building-Height Limits<\/u><\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;September 2016,&nbsp;published in <em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yannis Ioannides and Junfu Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/423\/2016\/03\/WalledCitiesJUEFinal.pdf\"><u>Walled Cities in Late Imperial China<\/u><\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;October 2016,&nbsp;published in <em>Journal of Urban Economics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Junfu Zhang and Zhong Zhao, \u201cMeasuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China,\u201d January 2013, available as <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp7160.pdf\"><u>IZA DP No. 7160<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan K. Brueckner, Wenhua Liu, Wei Xiao, and Junfu Zhang, \u201cGovernment-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities,\u201d November 2025. Accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography. 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