Siqi Zheng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3589194 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Siqi Zheng |
| NOMBRES | Siqi |
| APELLIDO | Zheng |
| FIRMA | ZHENG S |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4467-8505 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 324 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The climate crisis
Aligning climate and housing goals
Building energy codes are a crucial policy tool for decarbonising the built environment, but their economic impacts on housing affordability matter for both decarbonisation and social equity. This paper investigates the distributional consequences of energy codes on single-family housing across neighbourhood income levels. Using the staggered, municipal-level adoption of the Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code as a quasi-natural experiment, we esti…
Reconstructing the Subterranean Canvas
The development of digital technology offers unprecedented opportunities in the documentation, conservation, and interpretation of cultural heritage. Due to its high precision, efficiency, and visualization, this technology provides innovative ways for people to interact with heritage sites. However, its dramatic development introduces several problems, including systematic deficiencies in high-precision data acquisition, difficulties in effectiv…
Asian immigrants, school quality, and the U.S. housing market
This paper investigates how Asian immigrants affect U.S. housing prices and identifies the mechanisms underlying these effects. Using annual county-level data from 2009 to 2018 and a dual instrumental variable approach, we decompose the overall impact of Asian immigrants into education-related and non-education channels. We find that roughly 30%–40% of the housing price increase associated with Asian immigration is driven by the capitalization of…
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo
Unequal impacts of rising temperatures on global human sentiment
Climate change poses growing risks to human well-being, yet research on its emotional impact has primarily focused on developed nations, obscuring potential global inequalities in psychological vulnerability. Here, we analyze over 1.2 billion social media posts from 157 countries to reveal how rising temperatures affect human sentiment worldwide and project future impacts under climate scenarios. We find a non-linear relationship where moderate w…
JUE insight
Effect of target detection on the testing effect
A change in the recognition decision criterion occurs when target-detection tasks are conducted concurrently with memory retrieval tasks, in which words presented alongside the target are perceived more frequently as previously learned. This raises the question: Does target detection during memory retrieval enhance the processing of concurrently presented old words? This study employed the classic testing effects paradigm to investigate whether p…
The effects of the detection stimulus duration on the persistence of the attentional boost effect
Exploring the varied effects of occupational and family stress on sleep quality in military personnel on islands
The impact of encoding-retrieval perceptual differences on the retrieval-divided attention effect
Intercity connectivity and urban innovation
Quantifying the impacts of climate shocks in commercial real estate markets
This study investigates the capitalization of climate shocks in commercial real estate owned and operated by professional investors. We focus on Hurricanes Harvey and Sandy to quantify the price impacts of climate shocks on commercial buildings in Texas and New York. We find clear evidence of a decline in transaction prices in hurricane‐damaged areas after the hurricanes made landfall, compared to unaffected areas. We also observe that the “ new …
Climate change and real estate
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, putting tens of millions of real estate properties at significant physical and financial risk. A recent climate change assessment by the Biden administration estimates that extreme weather events cost the United States approximately $150 billion in direct damages annually (USGCRP, 2023).1 In addition to imposing a substantial welfare cost on property owners, mounting r…
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development
The impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth
We empirically analyse the impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth in the US and China. Integrating the heterogeneity of housing supply helps determine how a positive human capital shock translates into more population, higher house prices, or higher wages. To causally estimate this effect, we use a rich urban-level data set, choose our controls using the post-double-selection methodology, and instrument human capital with the …
Exploring how socioeconomic status affects neighbourhood environments’ effects on obesity risks
Research on how socioeconomic status interacts with neighbourhood characteristics to influence disparities in obesity outcomes is currently limited by residential segregation-induced structural confounding, a lack of empirical studies outside the U.S. and other ‘Western’ contexts, and an over-reliance on cross-sectional analyses. This study addresses these challenges by examining how socioeconomic status modifies the effect of accumulated exposur…
Demand for social interactions
We study the heterogeneous impacts of COVID‐19 on restaurants in the postlockdown United States, from lens of social interactions. We use the data structure of chain restaurants to disentangle restaurant attributes such as food and service types (which vary across chains) and local market conditions such as infection risks (which vary with each establishment's geographical location). We find that visits to chains with higher social indices experi…
The rebirth of urban subcenters
Why do some neighborhoods thrive, and others do not? While the importance of the local amenity mix has been established as a key determinant of local livability, its link to urban transport infrastructure remains understudied, partially due to a lack of data. Using spatiotemporal social media data from Foursquare, we analyze the impact of metro stations which opened between 2014 and 2017 on the amenity mix of surrounding neighborhoods in nine Eur…
Street pedestrianization in urban districts
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented burdens on people's physical health and subjective well-being. While countries worldwide have developed platforms to track the evolution of COVID-19 infections and deaths, frequent global measurements of affective states to gauge the emotional impacts of pandemic and related policy interventions remain scarce. Using 654 million geotagged social media posts in over 100 countries, covering 74% of worl…
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns
The role of informal housing in lowering China’s urbanization costs
How do home purchase restrictions affect elite Chinese graduate students’ job search behavior
Health perception and commuting choice
Previous literature suggests that active commuting has substantial health benefits. Yet, in polluted regions, it can also cause additional health risks by increasing riders’ pollution exposure and raising their inhalation rate. We examine the effect of perceived air pollution on stated commuting choices using an on-site survey experiment for 2285 non-automobile commuters in Zhengzhou, a heavily polluted city in central China. We integrate a seque…
Urban Villages in China
A team of Beijing-based urban planning specialists is joined by a noted American geographer to present the results and analyze their 2008 survey of migrant settlements in China's capital city. The paper examines the living and work conditions as well as housing consumption behavior of migrants in Chinese cities, focusing on chengzhongcun or urban villages—rural settlements that have been transformed into poor living spaces for migrant workers. It…
Migration and Split Households
The practice of split households among rural-urban migrants in China has persisted for more than twenty years. In this paper we compare three forms of split households, differentiated by whether the migrant's spouse and children are left behind or have joined the migrant: sole migration, couple migration, and family migration. Our survey of fifty chengzhongcun (urban villages) in Beijing conducted in 2008 shows that couple migration and family mi…
Land and residential property markets in a booming economy
Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites' expressed happiness on social media
The birth of edge cities in China
Do affordable housing programs facilitate migrants' social integration in Chinese cities
How does urban agglomeration integration promote entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from regional human capital spillovers and market integration
The role of transportation speed in facilitating high skilled teamwork across cities
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented burdens on people's physical health and subjective well-being. While countries worldwide have developed platforms to track the evolution of COVID-19 infections and deaths, frequent global measurements of affective states to gauge the emotional impacts of pandemic and related policy interventions remain scarce. Using 654 million geotagged social media posts in over 100 countries, covering 74% of worl…
A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China
Over the last 30 years, China's economy has boomed. This trend has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty but it has also sharply increased local, regional, and global pollution levels. We look at the rise in air pollution over recent decades, and the perhaps surprising finding that in many of China's urban areas, levels of particulates (of less than 10 microns) have been decreasing during the last 10 to 15 years. We then turn to t…
Housing-choice hindrances and urban spatial structure
Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data
Small property rights housing in major Chinese cities
A burden or a tool? Rationalizing public housing provision in Chinese cities
Public housing, a crucial component of the welfare state, is often viewed as an economic burden. We confront this conventional view and provide an alternative understanding of public housing in mixed economies. Through the lens of China, we conduct case studies and investigate the rationales of public housing provision in two high-profile, industrializing and deindustrializing cities – Chongqing and Shenzhen, respectively. We find that, despite v…
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China
Global air network and cross-border venture capital mobility
Street pedestrianization in urban districts
Dockless bike sharing alleviates road congestion by complementing subway travel
The Greenness of China
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian while the "dirtiest" cities are Daqing and Mudanjiang. Even in the dirtiest city (Daqing), a standardized household produces only one-fifth of that in Ameri…
Impacts of air pollution on urban housing prices in China
Determinants of household carbon emissions
JUE insight
The impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth
We empirically analyse the impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth in the US and China. Integrating the heterogeneity of housing supply helps determine how a positive human capital shock translates into more population, higher house prices, or higher wages. To causally estimate this effect, we use a rich urban-level data set, choose our controls using the post-double-selection methodology, and instrument human capital with the …
Clean air as an experience good in urban China
Transportation network and venture capital mobility
Housing-choice hindrances and urban spatial structure
Land and residential property markets in a booming economy
Urban Villages in China
A team of Beijing-based urban planning specialists is joined by a noted American geographer to present the results and analyze their 2008 survey of migrant settlements in China's capital city. The paper examines the living and work conditions as well as housing consumption behavior of migrants in Chinese cities, focusing on chengzhongcun or urban villages—rural settlements that have been transformed into poor living spaces for migrant workers. It…
The Greenness of China
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian while the "dirtiest" cities are Daqing and Mudanjiang. Even in the dirtiest city (Daqing), a standardized household produces only one-fifth of that in Ameri…
Migration and Split Households
The practice of split households among rural-urban migrants in China has persisted for more than twenty years. In this paper we compare three forms of split households, differentiated by whether the migrant's spouse and children are left behind or have joined the migrant: sole migration, couple migration, and family migration. Our survey of fifty chengzhongcun (urban villages) in Beijing conducted in 2008 shows that couple migration and family mi…
China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth
Megacity growth in the developing world is fueled by a desire to access their large local labor markets. Growing megacities suffer from high levels of traffic congestion and pollution, which degrade local quality of life. Transportation technology that allows individuals to access the megacity without living within its boundaries offers potentially large social benefits, because individuals can enjoy the benefits of urban agglomeration while not …
Understanding China's Urban Pollution Dynamics
China's ongoing urban economic growth has sharply increased the population's per capita income, lowered the count of people living below the poverty line, and caused major environmental problems. We survey the growing literature investigating the causes and consequences of China's urban pollution challenges. We begin by studying how urban population and industrial growth impacts local pollution levels and greenhouse gas production. As the urban p…
Incentives for China's urban mayors to mitigate pollution externalities
Determinants of household carbon emissions
Self-protection investment exacerbates air pollution exposure inequality in urban China
The birth of edge cities in China
A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China
Over the last 30 years, China's economy has boomed. This trend has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty but it has also sharply increased local, regional, and global pollution levels. We look at the rise in air pollution over recent decades, and the perhaps surprising finding that in many of China's urban areas, levels of particulates (of less than 10 microns) have been decreasing during the last 10 to 15 years. We then turn to t…
The Principle of Relatedness
Small property rights housing in major Chinese cities
Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data
Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites' expressed happiness on social media
A 43-Million-Person Investigation into Weather and Expressed Sentiment in a Changing Climate
Transportation network and venture capital mobility
Do affordable housing programs facilitate migrants' social integration in Chinese cities
How does urban agglomeration integration promote entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from regional human capital spillovers and market integration
Dockless bike sharing alleviates road congestion by complementing subway travel
Urban network and vibrancy
Global air network and cross-border venture capital mobility
The role of transportation speed in facilitating high skilled teamwork across cities
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns
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