Research

Working Papers

1
Input-Trade Liberalization, Female-Skill Intensity and Fertility in China
with Renliang Liu and Miaojie Yu
2
Old-Age Security and Fertility: Evidence from China’s Rural Pension Reform
with Wei Huang and Hong Liu
3
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: Gender Norms and Fertility Responses in China
with Dandan Wang
4
Borrowing After the Storm: Hurricanes and the Cost of Municipal Debt
with Wei Long
5
Parents' Misperceptions, Educational Investment, and Children's Skill Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural China
with Pengfei Chu, Jia Wu, and Shu Xu
6
Semiparametric Continuous Difference-in-Differences with Causal Forests and an Application to U.S. Charter Schools
with Douglas Harris and Nick Lacoste
7
The Hidden Costs of Police Brutality: Police-Involved Killings and Public Finance
with Stephanie Cheng, Yu Liu, and Wei Long

Publications

1
Gone with the Wind? Impacts of Hurricanes on College Enrollment and Completion
Fanyu Liu, Kerui Geng, Feng Chen*
2025, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
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2
Silence Breaking: Sex Crime Reporting in the MeToo Era
Feng Chen and Wei Long
2024, Journal of Population Economics
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3
The Effects of Charter School Entry on the Supply of Teachers from University-based Education Programs
Feng Chen, Douglas N. Harris, and Mary Penn
2024, Economics of Education Review
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4
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment
Douglas N. Harris, Feng Chen, Rylie C. Martin, Ann F. Bernhardt, Christopher R. Marsicano, and Paul T. von Hippel
2024, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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5
The Market-Level Effects of Charter Schools on Student Outcomes: A National Analysis of School Districts
Feng Chen and Douglas N. Harris
2023, Journal of Public Economics
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6
Does Paid Family Leave Save Infant Lives? Evidence from California's Paid Family Leave Program
Feng Chen*
2023, Contemporary Economic Policy
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* Corresponding author

Research Grants

1
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaAug 2025
Trade Liberalization and Career-Family Trade-Off: A Shift-Share Estimation from a Gender-Skill Perspective
2
Liaoning Provincial Federation of Social SciencesMay 2024
Synergistic Development of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in the Shenyang Modern Metropolitan Area
3
Shenyang Northeast Asia International Center City Research InstituteDec 2023
Research on Strengthening Rural Cultural Revitalization in Shenyang