Selected Working Papers:

• Three Decade Mapping of Brick Kilns in the Asian Brick Belt (with Xidong Chen, Bin Chen, Usman Nazir, Chen Lin, Nils Stenseth, Peng Gong)

• Impact of Women's Political Empowerment on Improved Water Access ( with Tenghui Wang,  Bin Chen, Peng Gong, Chen Lin, Nils Stenseth)

• In Utero Exposure to Extreme Heat Increases Neonatal Mortality (with Tenghui Wang, Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong, Chris Webster)

• Do Managers Withhold Bad News? Evidence from Terror Attacks (with Jiandong Chen, Shiqi Guo, Lai Wei, Zaheer Khan, Jiaman Xu)

  • Reject & Resubmit. 2025.

• The Leverage of Terrorists on Democratic Regimes (with Shiqi Guo, Ruoran Zhao)

  • Journal of Law and Economics. 2025.

• Measuring Gender and Racial Biases in LLMs (with Chen Lin, Difang Huang, Mingzhu Tai)

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus. 2025.

• Global Inequality in Infrastructure Access and Associated Disparity in Health Outcomes (with Ying Tu, Bin Chen, Shengbiao Wu, Chen Lin, Hong Wei, Bing Xu, Peng Gong)

  • Nature Human Behaviour. 2025.

• The Psychological Cost of War: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion (with Tenghui Wang, Chen Lin, Binley Chen, Peng Gong)

  • JAMA Network Open. 2025.

• Epidemic Disease and Innovation (with Ruoran Zhao, and Boyang Chen)

  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2025.

Selected Publications:

• Colonial Legacy and Informal Finance (with Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai) 

  • Management Science. 2024.

• The Interplay of Nature and 3D Urban Structures Reduces Human Access to Sunlight (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Shengbiao Wu, Peng Gong)

  • Nature Cities. 2024.

• Foreign-aided Infrastructure and Local Employment: Evidence from China's Aid to Africa (with Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang)

  • Journal of Comparative Economics. 2024.

• ChatGPT: Tackle the Growing Carbon Footprint of Generative AI (with Wenzhi Ding, Chen Lin)

  • Nature. 2023. 

• Optimize Urban Shade Using Digital Twins of Cities (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Peng Gong)

  • Nature. 2023.

• Epidemic Disease and Financial Development (with Chen Lin, Wenxuan Hou) 

  • Journal of Financial Economics. 2022.

• Does Terrorism Make People Pessimistic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Shiqi Guo) 

  • Journal of Development Economics. 2022.

• Is There an Employee-based Gender Gap in Informal Financial Markets? International Evidence (Single Author)

  • Journal of Corporate Finance. 2020. 

I can be contacted at: jiafuan at hku.hk