Research

Job Market Paper

Job Market Paper Identifying Counterfactual Solar PV Sites with CNN and Propensity Score Matching: Effects on Land Transactions Jingke Wu, Gabriel E. Lade, and H. Allen Klaiber Job Market Paper. Draft Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Publications and Manuscripts Under Review

Revise and Resubmit Disclosing Pollution: Causal Impacts of Key Emission Unit Listings on Shanghai’s Housing Market Jingke Wu and H. Allen Klaiber Environment and Development Economics. Click to view abstract Abstract We provide causal estimates of the effect of Shanghai’s key emission unit listings on nearby housing prices. Implemented in 2016, the disclosure policy requires annual public disclosure of designated polluting firms and their pollution information. Using repeated cross-sectional data on Shanghai housing transactions from 2015 to 2022, we apply the heterogeneity-robust staggered difference-in-differences estimator of de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfœuille (2020) to identify dynamic capitalization effects while addressing treatment heterogeneity, treatment reversibility, and time-invariant omitted variables. We find that each additional disclosed key emission unit within 1 km reduces nearby housing prices by 1.31 percent, with larger declines for suburban properties than for properties in the urban core. By examining ongoing industrial pollution under a unified disclosure framework, our findings extend prior U.S. and Chinese studies that focus on legacy contamination or specific pollutants. The results highlight the policy relevance of pollution transparency and inform China’s nationwide implementation. Click to return

Ready for Submission Property Value and Sorting Effects from Locally Undesirable Land Uses Tracy Turner, Jingke Wu, Chen-Ti Chen, and Yongjie Ji Presented at: 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting; 2026 NAREA Annual Conference. Click to view abstract Abstract Local production facilities can generate economic benefits while exposing nearby residents to environmental disamenities. This paper estimates the net local effects of concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) openings in Iowa, a state central to U.S. livestock production. I construct a novel dataset linking CAFO establishment records to CoreLogic housing transactions, Environmental Impacts Frame population measures, and Cropland Data Layer land-use data. Using a stacked difference-in-differences design with staggered treatment timing, I compare housing transactions within 5 miles of the newly opened CAFO with transactions near same-county control CAFOs that opened at least four years earlier or later and are at least 10 miles from the treated CAFO. The final sample includes 1,013 CAFO openings and more than 1.2 million housing transactions from 1993 to 2023. Preliminary results show that CAFO openings reduce nearby real house prices by about 2 percent, implying a $6,000–$8,000 loss in home equity over a 10-year holding period. Population responses are small but positive, driven by inflows of young and low- to middle-income households. Additional evidence suggests that these inflows are more likely a response to lower housing costs near CAFOs than to increased employment opportunities generated by the facilities. Click to return

Predoctoral Publications (click to unfold)

Published Can the Choice of Financing Modes of Overseas Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Operational Performance? Haiyin Liang, Jingke Wu, and Yongmou Zhao Economic Perspective, no. 2: 97-108, 2017. Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Published An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Regional Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in China: Based on Interprovincial Spatial Econometrics Jingke Wu Modern Business, no. 17: 52-58, 2017. Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Working Papers

Working Paper Land-Use Transition and Nearby Land Transactions Jingke Wu, Zhining Sun, Gabriel E. Lade, and Ani Katchova Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Working Paper The Distant Effects of Air Pollution from Animal Feeding Operations: Based on the InMAP Model Jingke Wu, H. Allen Klaiber, and Chen-Ti Chen Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Working Paper Capital Flows and Technology Spillovers: Optimal Climate Policy in a Divided World Jingke Wu, Wei Wang, Xufeng Liu, and Yongyang Cai Click to view abstract Abstract Abstract placeholder. Replace this with the final abstract. Click to return

Conferences and Outreach

Workshop

The Social Cost of Water Pollution Workshop

Washington, D.C., September 25-26, 2025.

Conference

Property Value and Sorting Effects from Locally Undesirable Land Uses (Preliminary)

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, July 27-29, 2025.

Conference

Property Value and Sorting Effects from Locally Undesirable Land Uses

2026 NAREA Annual Conference, Red Bank, NJ, June 7-10, 2026.

Outreach

Comparing CDL and NLCD Estimates of Agricultural Land Loss: Understanding Farmland Loss Using CDL and NLCD

Zhining Sun, Jingke Wu, Ani Katchova, and Gabriel E. Lade. OSU AEDE, May 19, 2026.

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Outreach

The rural-urban fringe is growing. Who’s moving there?

Gabriel E. Lade and Jingke Wu. Substack, January 5, 2026.

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Outreach

How much farmland is ohio losing? It depends who you ask...

Gabriel E. Lade, Jingke Wu, and Zhining Sun. Substack, June 16, 2026.

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Research Product

Ohio Urbanization

Gabriel E. Lade and Jingke Wu. C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy, The Ohio State University, 2026.

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Data Tool

Tracking Agricultural Land Loss with NLCD

Jingke Wu, Gabriel E. Lade, Zhining Sun, and Ani Katchova. Data from the Annual National Land Cover Database (MRLC/USGS), 1985-2024.

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Data Tool

Ohio CDL Crop Change Explorer

Jingke Wu, Gabriel E. Lade, Zhining Sun, and Ani Katchova. Data from the USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer, 2006-2025.

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