Publications and Links

• You are What Your Parents Expect: Height and Local Reference Points
  Fan Wang, Esteban Puentes, Jere R. Behrman, and Flávio Cunha
  Journal of Econometrics 243, no. 1 (July): 105269, 2024
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.09.020, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: The INCAP Intervention Data (1969-1977), Guatemala
  

• An Empirical Equilibrium Model of Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Developing Countries
  Fan Wang
  Review of Economic Dynamics 46 (October): 224-43, 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2021.09.001, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: Townsend Thai Monthly Survey (1999-2009), Thailand
  

• Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures, and Birth Weight in South China
  Xiaoying Liu, Jere R. Behrman, Emily Hannum, Fan Wang, and Qingguo Zhao
  Social Science Research 105 (July): 102691, 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102691, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: District Administrative Birth Data (2009-2011), China; Copernicus Climate Data
  

• Optimal Allocations to Heterogeneous Agents with an Application to Stimulus Checks
  Vegard M. Nygaard, Bent E. Sørensen, and Fan Wang
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 138 (May): 104352, 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104352, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract, website, code
  Data: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1997-2017), U.S.
  Note: Subsumes and Replaces Wang (2020) and Nygaard, Sørensen, and Wang (2020)

• Fewer, Better Pathways for All? Intersectional Impacts of Rural School Consolidation in China’s Minority Regions
  Emily Hannum and Fan Wang
  World Development 151 (March): 105734, 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105734, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: China Household Ethnic Survey (2011)
  

• Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative
  Emily Hannum, Xiaoying Liu, and Fan Wang
  Economic Development and Cultural Change 70 (1): 485-528, 2021
  DOI: 10.1086/711654, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: China Household Ethnic Survey (2011)
  

• Early Life Height and Weight Production Functions with Endogenous Energy and Protein Inputs
  Esteban Puentes, Fan Wang, Jere R. Behrman, Flávio Cunha, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Linda S. Adair, Judith B. Borja, Reynaldo Martorell, and Aryeh D.Stein
  Economics & Human Biology 22 (September): 65-81, 2016
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2016.03.002, online appendix
  Preprint: pdf, abstract
  Data: The INCAP Intervention Data (1969-1977), Guatemala; Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (1983-1984), Philippines