Journal Articles
Liang, YD, Yang, Y,
Xu, L, Bray, J (2026)
Understanding the role of student recruitment agencies: a service provider for both higher education institutions and students,
Journal of Further and Higher Education, pp.1-25, ISSN: 0309-877X. DOI:
10.1080/0309877x.2026.2694718.
Xu, LEI and Zhu, Y (2026)
Peer effects in classrooms – Evidence from random assignment,
International Journal of Educational Development, 121, 103529, ISSN: 0738-0593. DOI:
10.1016/j.ijedudev.2026.103529.
Speckesser, S and
Xu, LEI (2025)
Apprenticeships and firm performance an empirical investigation using “big data” for all English businesses,
Industrial Relations Journal, 57(1), pp.87-101, ISSN: 0019-8692. DOI:
10.1111/irj.70016.
Xu, LEI, Tani, M, Zhu, Y, Wen, X (2025)
Formal and informal debt in China: Evidence from the 2014 hukou reform,
Emerging Markets Review, 69, 101367, ISSN: 1566-0141. DOI:
10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101367.
Huang, B, Massimiliano, T,
Xu, LEI, Zhu, Y (2025)
Does college education make women less likely to marry? Evidence from the Chinese higher education expansion,
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 118(2025), 102433, ISSN: 2214-8043. DOI:
10.1016/j.socec.2025.102433.
Xu, LEI, Tani, M, Zhu, Y (2024)
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi-experiment,
British Educational Research Journal, 50(6), pp.2559-2956, ISSN: 0141-1926. DOI:
10.1002/berj.4051.
Xu, L and Zhu, Y (2023)
Does the employment effect of national minimum wage vary by non‐employment rate? A regression discontinuity approach,
The Manchester School, 91(1), pp.18-36, ISSN: 1463-6786. DOI:
10.1111/manc.12427.
Dai, F,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2022)
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China,
China Economic Review, 71, ISSN: 1043-951X. DOI:
10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101732.
Speckesser, S and
Xu, L (2022)
Return to apprenticeships: a comparison between existing apprentices and newly recruited apprentices,
Oxford Economic Papers, 74(1), pp.14-39, ISSN: 0030-7653. DOI:
10.1093/oep/gpab003.
Tani, M,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2021)
The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: Evidence from the 2013 China education panel survey,
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190, pp.768-784, ISSN: 0167-2681. DOI:
10.1016/j.jebo.2021.08.024.
Luo, R, Teng, K,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2021)
A decomposition of student achievement gap by gender in China: Evidence from random class assignment,
International Journal of Educational Research, 106, pp.101721-101721, ISSN: 0883-0355. DOI:
10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101721.
Huang, B, He, X,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2020)
Elite school designation and housing prices-quasi-experimental evidence from Beijing, China✰,
Journal of Housing Economics, 50, pp.101730-101730, ISSN: 1051-1377. DOI:
10.1016/j.jhe.2020.101730.
Huang, B,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2019)
Does the higher education expansion in the UK reduce the returns to education? A comparison of returning-from-work versus fresh out-of-school graduates,
Economic Modelling, 79, pp.276-285, ISSN: 0264-9993. DOI:
10.1016/j.econmod.2019.01.012.
Chapters
McKenzie, T,
Xu, L, Zhu, Y (2025)
Returns to education in the context of higher education expansion. In
Handbook of Education and Work, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.16-36, ISBN: 9781035309900. DOI:
10.4337/9781035309917.00007.
Zhu, Y and
Xu, LEI (2022) Returns to Higher Education: Graduate and Discipline Premiums. In
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, pp.1-20.
