I am working on household sustainability, a burgeoning interdisciplinary field between sustainability and household finance. My research agenda lies in (a) investigating social sustainability—especially intergenerational mobility—from a household finance perspective, and (b) melding environmental sustainability—an important need for current and future generations—with real estate market from a lens of household.

My work has been published at leading international journals such as American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, Nature Climate Change, Nature Cities, Applied Energy. They have been featured internationally (e.g., cited by World Bank, United Nations, The Economist, Bloomberg, VoxChina, The Wall Street Journal) and regionally (e.g., noticed by the Ministry of National Development Singapore, cited by Straits Times, Channel News Asia, Lianhe Zaobao, MoneyFM, Business Times, Singapore Institute of Building).

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Yewen Yu, Yi Fan, and Junjian Yi, "China’s One-Child Policy Amplifies Intergenerational Inequality via Enlarged Differential Fertility.“ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (2026) 123 (22) e2525381123. [5 Year Impact Factor: 10.6]

• Yi Fan, Yong Tu, Ho Pin Teo and Xinwei Wan,"Social Integration and Housing Behaviours of Immigrants: Evidence from Singapore’s Public Housing Market".  Cities 175 (2026) 107220. [5 Year Impact Factor: 7.5] 

 

• Yaopei Wang, Yong Tu, Yi Fan, and Yumeng Yang, “Active Aging: Spatial Analytical Framework to Evaluate Ageing-in-Place Practice”. Health & Place 99 (2026) 103674. [5 Year Impact Factor: 4.8]​

 

• ​​Sumit Agarwal, Yi Fan, Wenlan Qian, and Tien Foo Sing, "Affordable Public Housing and Intergenerational Mobility". Nature Cities (2026). [Read me online] ​

• Qiuxia Gao, Chong Zhao, and Yi Fan, “AI for Household Finance” in AI4X (2026), Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press. 
  

 

• Yi Fan, Qiuxia Gao, Yinghao Elliot Sitoh, and Wayne Xinwei Wan, "Post-Flood Selective Migration Interacts with Media Sentiment and Income Effects", Nature Climate Change (2025). [5 Year Impact Factor: 31.4] [Read me online]

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• ​Yi Fan and Wayne Xinwei Wan, "Flood-induced Selective Migration Patterns Examined" (Research Briefing), Nature Climate Change (2025). [5 Year Impact Factor: 31.4]​

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• Yi Fan, "Predictive Infrequent Activities", Nature Cities (2024).

 

•  Hanghang Wang, Chen Dun, Martin Makary, Christi Walsh, Yi Fan, Emily Rodriguez, Deven Patel, Alice Zhou, Armaan Akbar, Glenn Whitman, and James Gammie, “Wide Variation in Mitral Valve Repair Rates among U.S. Surgeons: Analysis of Medicare Claims Data”. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2024). [5 Year Impact Factor: 4.9]

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• Yi Fan, Maggie Hu, Xinwei Wan and Zhenping Wang, "A Tale of Two Cities: Mainland Chinese Buyers in Hong Kong Housing Market", Review of Finance (2023) 27:6, 2205-2232. [5 Year Impact Factor: 5.5] 

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• Yi Fan, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang, “Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2021) 13:1, 202-230. ​[5 Year Impact Factor: 7.1] 

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• ​Yi Fan, “Does Adversity Affect Long-Term Financial Behaviour? Evidence from China's Rustication Programme”, Journal of Urban Economics (2020) 115. [5 Year Impact Factor: 6.3] 

 

• ​Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan and Junsen Zhang, “The Glorified Mothers of Sons: Evidence from Sex Composition and Parental Time Allocation in Rural China”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018) 145, 249-260. [5 Year Impact Factor: 2.4]

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• Yi Fan, “Intergenerational Income Persistence and Transmission Mechanism: Evidence from Urban China”, China Economic Review  (2016) 41, 299-314. ​[5 Year Impact Factor: 6.8] 

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• ​Yi Fan, Economic Analysis on China’s General Higher Education (in Chinese), Jiangsu Higher Education (CSSCI) 2006, Vol. 4, pp. 149-150.

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• Yi Fan, Nationalism and Globalisation (in Chinese), Academia Bimestrie (CSSCI) Special Edition 2006, pp. 161-163.

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WORKING PAPERS​

• Sumit Agarwal, Yi Fan, Wenlan Qian, and Tien Foo Sing, "The Role of Consumption in Marriage Commitment: Evidence from Singapore’s Build-to-Order Program".​
• Yi Fan, Ke Xu, and Chongyu Wang, “Announcement of Northern Metropolis Plan Raises Housing Prices, Consumption, and School Enrolment, though Inconclusive on Inequality”.​

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Yi Fan, Qiuxia Gao and Cheng Keat Tang, “From Brown to Green? The Displacement Effect of Coal-fired Power Plant Closures in China”.​​ Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2026) 137: 103302. [5 Year Impact Factor: 7.5]

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• Yi Fan, "Noise Pollution and Household Sustainability: An Economic Approach", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2025).​

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• Yaopei Wang, Yong Tu, and Yi Fan, “​​The Price of Quietness: How a Pandemic Affects City Dwellers' Response to Road Traffic Noise”, Sustainable Cities and Society (2023) 99, 104882. [5 Year Impact Factor: 10.6] online appendix 

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• Chunmeng Yang, Siqi Bu, Yi Fan, Wayne Xinwei Wan, Ruoheng Wang, and Aoife M. Foley, “Data-driven Prediction and Evaluation on Future Impact of Energy Transition Policies in Smart Regions”, Applied Energy ​(2023) 332: 120523. ​[5 Year Impact Factor: 11.0] online supplementary material

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• Yi Fan and Diana Weinhold, “Urban Noise, Sleep Disruption and Health”, Applied Economics (2022) 54:50, 5782-5799. [5 Year Impact Factor: 2.3] online appendix 

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• Mi Diao, Yi Fan and Tien Foo Sing, “Rational pricing responses of developers to supply shocks: Evidence from Singapore", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2021) 190, 802-815. [5 Year Impact Factor: 2.4] 

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• Yi Fan, Ho Pin Teo and Xinwei Wan, "Public Transport, Noise Complaints, and Housing: Evidence from Sentiment Analysis in Singapore", Journal of Regional Science (2021), 1-27. [5 Year Impact Factor: 3.2] 

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• ​​Mi Diao, Yi Fan and Tien Foo Sing, “Demand Restrictions and Asymmetric Risk Behaviours”, International Real Estate Review, (2019) 22:2, 131-167. [Official journal affiliated with Asian Real Estate Society] 

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• Monica S. Hammer, Yi Fan, Tracy S. Swinburn, Miram Weber, Tracy K. Swinburn, Diana Weinhold and Richard L. Neitzel, “Applying a Novel Environmental health Framework Theory (I-ACT) to Noise Pollution Policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands”, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, (2018) 61:12, 2111-2132. [5 Year Impact Factor: 3.6]

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• Mi Diao, Yi Fan and Tien Foo Sing, “A New Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line Construction and Housing Wealth: Evidence from the Circle Line”, Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (2017) 1:1, 64-89. [5 Year Impact Factor: 1.3]​ 

WORKING PAPERS​​​​​

• Sumit Agarwal, Yi Fan and Qiuxia Gao, “Power Up the Consumption: Impact of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure on Household Finance”. R&R

,INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE 
MEDIA: Channel News Asia, November 2025; NUS Cities Newsletter, April 2025; NUS Business Thought Leadership Series, December 2024; Bloomberg, July 2024; Straits Time, June 2024; China.org.cn, December 2023; IREUS News, August 2023, October 2022; Channel News Asia, July 2022; NUS BIZBeat Thought Leadership, July 2022; Liaohe Zaobao, June 2022; MoneyFM, June 2022; NUS BIZ WeChat, June 2022; IREUS News, Jan 2022; 香樟经济学术圈, March 2022, December 2021; The Economist, October 2021; NUS News, October 2021, October 2019; 代际流动研究, Feb 2022, July 2021; Straits Time, October 2019; Business Times, October 2019; Today, October 2019; Tamil Murasu, October 2019; CUHK China Business Knowledge, November 2019; VoxChina, July 2018; Quartz, July 2018; The Wall Street Journal (Chinese Edition), July 2013.
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INVITED TALKS & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (*SESSION CHAIR):
2025: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Forum of Climate Change Economics
Shandong University, School of Economics, Asian Economic Development Conference Peking University, Nexus Forum*, NUS Cities Brownbag, SGFIN Annual Research Conference on Sustainability, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research Annual Conference, Global Research Network on Housing and Demographic Dynamics Workshop

2024: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Annual Conference, Finance Down Under, University of Melbourne, SGFIN Annual Research Conference on Sustainability, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research 11th Annual Conference, Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Curtin University (Virtual), SMU-Jinan Conference on Urban and Regional Economics

2023: Jinan-SMU Conference on Urban and Regional Economics, Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Conference*, Keynote speaker of Labor and People’s Livelihood Forum, Capital University of Economics and Business (Virtual), American Real Estate and Urban Association Virtual Seminar, Zhejiang University, MIT Asia Real Estate Initiative Inaugural Symposium, American Real Estate and Urban Association International Conference, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research 10th Annual Conference, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Asian Real Estate Society and Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Joint International Conference, China Economic Society Annual Conference*, Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research Intergenerational Housing workshop

2022: University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (Virtual), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, East China Normal University (Virtual), Asian Meeting of Econometric Society-China (Virtual), Asian Meeting of Econometric Society in East and South-East Asia, Tokyo (Virtual)*, American Real Estate and Urban Association International Conference (Virtual), Nanjing University (Virtual), Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research 9th Annual Conference, NUS-HKU-NTU-Applied Economic Workshop (virtual), Allied Social Science Associations Annual Conference (virtual)

2021: City University of Hong Kong (virtual), North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (virtual)*, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association-Asian Real Estate Society-Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Joint Annual Conference (virtual)*, Econometric Society European Meeting (virtual), Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (virtual), University of International Business and Economics (virtual), European Real Estate Society Annual Conference (virtual), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (virtual), 9th Meeting of Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (virtual)*, University of International Business and Economics (virtual)

2020: ShanghaiTech University (virtual)

2019: Econometric Society Asia Meeting, Asian Real Estate Annual Conference*, Global Chinese Real Estate Congress, Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference*, Urban Economics Association Conference European Meeting*, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association International Conference

2018: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association International Conference, European Real Estate Society Annual Conference

2017: European Real Estate Society Annual Conference, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association International Conference,The Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference, NUS-IRES Symposium

2016: Biennial Conference of Hong Kong Economic Association

2015: American Economic Association Annual Conference, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference

2014: Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, European Meeting of the Econometric Society

2013: IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Chinese Economic Association (UK) and Chinese Economic Association (Europe) Annual Conference
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Economic Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Asian Real Estate Society, Royal Economic Society, Econometric Society, Society of Economics of the Household

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