Publications
My work has been published in the Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Population Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economcis, Social Science & Medicine, and JAMA Network Open.
You can find my recent CV and Google Scholar here.
Notes: * corresponding author; + first author; ++ co-first author; GS graduate student advisee.
Substance Use
Local problems, local solutions: Evidence from the Drug-Free Communities program on Youth Development
Shijun You, Wei Fu, and Shin-Yi Chou. 2025.
Submitted
[NBER Working Paper No. 34182]
Capping the First Script: Initial Opioid Prescription Limits and Intimate Partner Violence
Wei Fu and Ashley C. Bradford. 2025
R&R at Journal of Health Economics
The Devastating Dance between Opioid and Housing Crises: Evidence from OxyContin Reformulation
Ashley C. Bradford, Wei Fu, and Shijun You. 2024
Journal of Health Economics
[Published version]
Unemployment Insurance and Cigarette Smoking
Wei Fu and Feng Liu. 2019
Journal of Health Economics 63:34-51
[Published version]
Health Care Utilization and Inequality
Abortion, Economic Hardship, and Crime
Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, Caitlin Myers, Erdal Tekin, and Bingjin Xue. 2025.
Submitted,
[NBER Working Paper No. 30155]
Proximity to Abortion Services and Child Maltreatment
Aslim Erkmen, Wei Fu, and Erdal Tekin. 2025.
Submitted,
[NBER Working Paper No. w32771]
NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research
Wei Fu+, Shin-Yi Chou, and Li-San Wang. 2026.
Accepted, Journal of Population Economics,
[NBER Working Paper No. 30155]
From Syringes to Dishes: Improving Food Security through Vaccination
Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, Erdal Tekin, and Shijun You. 2025
Journal of Public Economics 247:105392
[Published version] [NBER WP 31025]
State Vaccination Policies, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures
Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, Chia-Lun Liu, and Erdal Tekin. 2024
Economic Journal 134(664):3096-136
[Published version]
A Single Dose For Me, A Wealth of Protection For Us: The Public Health Cost of Individualism in the Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccine
Wei Fu+, Li-San Wang, and Shin-Yi Chou. 2024
Social Science & Medicine 348:116849.
[Published version]
Reconcile the Debate Over Protective Effects of BCG Vaccine against COVID-19
Wei Fu++, Pei-Chuan Ho, Chia-Lun Liu, Kai-Teh Tzeng, Nawar Nayeem, Jonni S. Moore, Li-San Wang, and Shin-Yi Chou. 2021.
Scientific Reports 11(1):8356
[Published version]
Children and Female Wellbeing
Protecting Children through Paid Family Leave: Reduced Child Maltreatment in the Short- and Long-Run
Wei Fu and Muzhe Yang. 2025.
Working Paper
Homes in Limbo, Children at Risk: Exploring the Link between Housing Instability and Child Maltreatment Using the Discontinuity of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act
Wei Fu and Muzhe Yang. 2025.
Working Paper
The 2005 TennCare Disenrollments Increased Rates of Intimate Partner Violence: Insights for the Post-COVID Medicaid Unwinding
Wei Fu+, Melissa B. Eggen, and Qi Zheng. 2025.
Health Services Research 20:e14647
[Published version]
Migration Control Policy and Parent-Child Separation among Migrant Families: Evidence from China
Yuanyuan Chen and Wei Fu. 2023.
Journal of Population Economics 36(4):2347-2388
[Published version]
Unemployment Benefits, Food Insecurity, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Spending
Wei Fu, Chen Huang and Feng Liu. 2023
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105(2):479-502
[Published version]
Mental Distress Among Female Individuals of Reproductive Age and Reported Barriers to Legal Abortion Following the US Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade
Dhaval Dave, Wei Fu, and Muzhe Yang. 2023.
JAMA Network Open 6(3):e234509-e234509
[Published version]
Cognitive Function in Later-Life
Improving Fairness in Aging-related AI: A Conceptual Model for Mitigating Biases.
Qingwei Wang, Wei Fu, Huixin Zhong, Kexin Bao, and Jiawei Cao. 2025.
R&R at Gerontologist
The Inclusion of ADRD Hierarchical Condition Category in Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Model is Associated with Improved Access to Healthcare
Wei Fu+, Yuting Qian, Seyed Karimi, Hamid Zarei, and Xi Chen. 2025.
Accepted JAMA Network Open
The Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease through Multi-Trait Genetic Modeling
Kaylyn Clark, Wei Fu++, Chia-Lun Liu, Pei-Chuan Ho, Hui Wang, Wan-Ping Lee, Shin-Yi Chou, Li-San Wang, Jung-Ying Tzeng. 2023.
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 15:1168638
[Published version]
Alzheimer’s Disease Variant Portal (ADVP): A Catalog of Genetic Findings for Alzheimer’s Disease
Pavel P. Kuksa, Chia-Lun Liu, Wei Fu++, Liming Qu, Yi Zhao, Zivadin Katanic, Amanda B Kuzma, Pei-Chuan Ho, Kai-Teh Tzeng, Otto Valladares, Shin-Yi Chou, Adam C Naj, Gerard D Schellenberg, Li-San Wang, and Yuk Yee Leung. 2022.
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 86:461–477
[Published version)]
Peer-Reviewed Chinese Journals
[Econ] Yuanyuan Chen and Wei Fu. 2023. Migration Control Policy in Megalopolis, School Enrollment Requirement and Children Left-behind. (特大城市人口调控政策、入学门槛与儿童留守). China Economic Quarterly (经济学(季刊)).
[Econ] Yuanyuan Chen and Wei Fu. 2017. Land Transfer Right, Rural-to-Urban Migration and Agricultural Production. (土地承包经营权流转、劳动力流动与农业生产). Management World (管理世界).
[Econ] Feng Huang and Wei Fu. 2017. Purchased by Government or Provided by Family? Estimating the Substitution Effects of Informal Care. (政府购买还是家庭照料? 基于家庭照料替代效应的实证分析). Nankai Economic Studies (南开经济研究).
[Econ] Zhaohua Li and Wei Fu. 2013. Ecological Footprint Analysis of the China’s International Trade. (中国进出口贸易内涵自然资本的生态足迹分析). China Industrial Economics (中国工业经济).