3 papers
econ.EM2025
Assortative Marriage and Geographic Sorting
Jiaming Mao, Jiayi Wen
Between 1980 and 2000, the U.S. experienced a significant rise in geographic sorting and educational homogamy, with college graduates increasingly concentrating in high-skill citie…
econ.GN2024
Insuring Long-Term Care in Developing Countries: The Interaction between Formal and Informal Insurance
Jiayi Wen, Xiaoqing Yu
Does public insurance reduce uninsured long-term care (LTC) risks in developing countries, where informal insurance predominates? This paper exploits the rollout of LTC insurance i…
econ.GN2024
A New Testing Method for Justification Bias Using High-Frequency Data of Health and Employment
Jiayi Wen, Zixi Ye, Xuan Zhang
Justification bias, wherein retirees may report poorer health to rationalize their retirement, poses a major concern to the widely-used measure of self-assessed health in retiremen…