• PhD. in Economics, IowaStateUniversity, Ames, IA, August 2008 (Expected ) 
• B.A. in Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, 2002

Fields of Specialization

• Human Resource and Labor Economics
• Industrial Economics
• Agricultural Economics

• " Farm size, technical change and wages: evidence from the pork sector from 1990 – 2005 " with Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter F. Orazem.
• " Testing the complementarity and substitutability among multiple technologies: the case in the U.S. hog farms ", with Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter F. Orazem.
• " Human capital, complex technologies, firm size and wages: A test of the O-Ring Production hypothesis ", with Peter F. Orazem.

• " Survival of new businesses in Iowa, 1992-2005 " with Peter F. Orazem and Robert Jolly
• " Firm entry and exit in Iowa, 1992-2004 "  with Peter F. Orazem and Robert Jolly
• " Human capital, technologies and location", with Peter F. Orazem