Scholarly and Creative Works
2025
- Ye, X., Zhai, M., & Feng, L. (2025). Free Teacher Education in Rural China: Incentives and Challenges. China Economic Review, 93, 102486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102486
2023
- Lynch, J., Wang, Y., & Zhai, M. (2023). Too Many Employees Cash Out Their 401(k)s When Leaving a Job. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2023/03/too-many-employees-cash-out-their-401ks-when-leaving-a-job
2022
- Wang, Y., Zhai, M., & Lynch, J. J. (2022). Cashing Out Retirement Savings at Job Separation. Marketing Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2022.1404
- Ye, X., Zhai, M., Feng, L., Xie, A., Wang, W., & Wu, H. (2022). Still want to be a doctor? Medical student dropout in the era of COVID-19. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.034
- Wan, M., Feng, L., Meng, X., Zhai, M., & Konopaske, R. (2022). Working college students’ time pressure and work-school conflict: Do boundary permeability and dispositional mindfulness matter? Psychological Reports, 125(6), 3100-3125 (ABDC: N/A, CABS: 1). https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941211029621.
- Zhai, M., Kishan, R. P., & Showalter, D. (2022). Saving Lives through Social Capital: Evidence from the United States Counties. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 98, 101856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2022.101856
2021
- Zhai, M., & Wolff, H. (2021). Air Pollution, Road Transport and Spatial Spillovers: Evidence from the World’s Largest Low Emission Zone in London. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 23, 721–748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-021-00307-9