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Qu Tang

Affiliated Faculty

I work in environmental and resource economics, with a particular interest in how environmental conditions affect cognition and human capital, and how households and firms adapt to environmental shocks and policy constraints.


E-mail: qutang@jnu.edu.cn


Selected Publications  

1. Joshua Graff Zivin, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang, Temperature and high-stakes cognitive performance: Evidence from the national college entrance examination in China, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 104, 2020, 102365, ISSN 0095-0696.

2. Joshua Graff Zivin, Tong Liu, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang, The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 147, 2020, 102560, ISSN 0304-3878



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