Helu JIANG

Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis 2019
M.A. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis 2015
B.S. in Mathematics and Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison 2013

Selected Publications

1.  Entry Barriers and Growth: The Role of Endogenous Market Structure (with Yu Zheng and Lijun Zhu), forthcoming at International Economic Review.

2. Haste Makes Waste? Quantity-Based Subsidies under Heterogeneous Innovations (with Linyi Cao, Gaungwei Li, and Lijun Zhu), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 142, March 2024.

3. Skill Biased Entrepreneurial Decline (with Faisal Sohail), Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 48, April 2023, Pages 18-44.

Working Papers

1. Breaking the “Iron Rice Bowl”: Misallocation in a Frictional Labor Market (with Runsheng Wang and Lijun Zhu).

2. Racial Discrimination, Persistent Inequality and Economic Growth (with Terry Cheung).

3. Talent Misallocation in Knowledge Hierarchy Economy (with Rongsheng Tang).

4. The Timing of Childbearing: Theory and Quantitative Analysis (with Hsien-Ming Lien, Ping Wang and Yin-Chi Wang). 

5. Green Revolution, Sex Selection and Sex Ratio (with Nikita Sangwan and Sounak Thakur). 

6. Cohabitation, Marriage, and Fertility: Divergent Patterns for Different Education Group.

1.District Households Buck the Trend to Pay Down Debt (with Juan M. Sanchez). The Regional Economist, April, 2016
2. Household Financial Distress and Household Deleveraging (with Juan M. Sanchez). Economics Synopsis, 2016, No. 18.
3. The Deleveraging of U.S. Household: Credit Card Debt over the Lifecycle (with Juan M. Sanchez). Economics Synopsis, 2016, No. 11.

4. The Dynamics of Mortgage Debt in Default (with Juan M. Sanchez). Economics Synopsis, 2016, No. 3.

Referee Services

Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Pacific Economic Review, Public Finance Review, International Studies of Economics, The World Economy.