Work Experience
2021 – Present: Distinguished Research Fellow, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
2019 – 2021: Assistant Professor, School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University

PUBLICATIONS

1. Wenchao Li ; Do Surging House Prices Discourage Fertility? Global Evidence, 1870–2012, Labour Economics, 2024, 102572
2. Wenchao Li; Di Tong ; The Benefits of Having an Entrepreneur Mother: Influence of Mother's Entrepreneurial Status on Human Capital Formation Among Children, Journal of Business Venturing, 2023, 38(6): 106329
3. V. Bhaskar; Wenchao Li; Junjian Yi ; Multidimensional Premarital Investments with Imperfect Commitment, Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131(10)
4. Wenchao Li; Zhiming Leng; Junjian Yi; Songfa Zhong ; A Multifaceted Poverty Reduction Program Has Economic and Behavioral Consequences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, 120(10)
5. Wenchao Li ; Gender of Children and Risky Health Behaviors: Evidence from China, Economic Modelling, 2023, 119
6. Xiaolan Yang; Xiaoyue Hong; Wenchao Li ; “Only children” and entrepreneurship in China: Spillover effects and mechanisms, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023, 101994
7. Wenchao Li; Xuyan Lou; Junjian Yi; Junsen Zhang ; Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching, Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41(4): 859-886
8. Wenchao Li; Changcheng Song; Shu Xu; Junjian Yi ; High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China, Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(2): 465-490
9. Xiaolan Yang; Yidong Huang; Wenchao Li ; Economic Preferences and State-Level Corruption: Global Evidence and Mechanism, Applied Economics Letters, 2022: 1-21
10. Wenchao Li ; The “Miseries” of Sex Imbalance: Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data, Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151
11. Wenchao Li; Junjian Yi ; Alphabetical Author Order, Intellectual Collaboration, and High-Skilled Migration, Economic Journal, 2021, 131(635): 1250-1268
12. Wenchao Li; Jing Li; Junjian Yi ; Government Management Capacities and the Containment of COVID-19: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study Across Chinese Cities, BMJ Open, 2021, 11(4)
13. Wenchao Li ; Time Barrier to Export for OECD Countries, Economics Letters, 2019, 175: 106-112

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS
○ V. Bhaskar; Wenchao Li; Junjian Yi ; Strategic Parental Investments in a Competitive Marriage Market. R&R at European Economic Review
○ Xiaolan Yang; Lele Zhang; Xiaoyue Hong; Wenchao Li ; Can Digital Financial Inclusion Facilitate Intergenerational Income Mobility? Evidence from China. R&R at Journal of Comparative Economics

TEACHING
Econometrics
Frontiers in Economic Research
Urban Economics

SELECTED GRANTS
National Natural Science Foundation of China - The Youth Science Fund Project，2022 – 2024，Host
National Natural Science Foundation of China - The General Science Fund Project，2022 – 2025，Participate
Shanghai Pujiang Scholar Project，2020 – 2023，Host

Other Academic Activities
Invited anonymous reviewer for academic journals including Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Management Science, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Economic Modelling

○ Shanghai Municipal Award for Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements, Second Prize, 2023
○ Shanghai Pujiang Scholar, 2020
○ Singapore National Academy of Science Award, 2013