Dr. Guojun He
Economics
Management and Strategy

Associate Professor
3917 7729
gjhe@hku.hk
KK 903
https://www.hkubs.hku.hk/people/guojun-he/www.guojunhe.com


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
B.A. Peking University
Biography
Guojun He is an economist working on environmental, development, and governance issues. He is now an associate professor in Economics at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a concurrent appointment at the University of Chicago’s interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) and serves as the research director of its China center (EPIC-China).
He’s research tries to address some of the most challenging problems faced by developing countries and seeks to produce empirically-grounded estimates for optimal policy design. The majority of his work focuses on understanding the benefits and costs of environmental policies.
Teaching
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics (Causal Inference)
Selected Publications
Greenstone, Michael, Guojun He, Ruixue Jia, and Tong Liu. “Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from China’s War on Air Pollution,” ??American Economic Review: Insights, 2021.
Greenstone, Michael, Guojun He, Shanjun Li, and Eric Zou?.?“?China’s War on Pollution: Evidence from the First Five Years,”?Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2021.
He, Guojun, Shaoda Wang?and Bing Zhang. “Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China,”?Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020,?135(4):?2315-2385.
He, Guojun, Yuhang Pan, and Takanao Tanaka. “The Short-term Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Urban Air Pollution in China,”?Nature Sustainability,?2020.
He, Guojun, Yang Xie, and Bing Zhang. “Expressways, GDP, and the Environment: The Case of China,”?Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145: 102485.
He, Guojun, Tong Liu, and Maigeng Zhou. “Straw Burning, PM2.5 and Death: Evidence from China,”?Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145:?102468.
He, Guojun, Maoyong Fan, and Maigeng Zhou. “The Winter Choke: Coal-Fired Heating, Air Pollution, and Mortality in China,”?Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 71:?102316.
Cheung, Chun Wai, Guojun He, and Yuhang Pan. “Mitigating the Air Pollution Effect? The Remarkable Decline in the Pollution-Mortality Relationship in Hong Kong,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020. 101: 102316.
He, Guojun and Shaoda Wang. “Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?”?American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(4), pp 186-215.
Ebenstein, Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He and Maigeng Zhou. “New Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy?,”?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114(39), pp. 10384-10389.
He, Guojun, Maoyong Fan, and Maigeng Zhou. “The Effect of Air Pollution on Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,”?Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, Vol. 79, pp. 18-39.?
He, Guojun and Jeffrey M. Perloff. “Surface Water Pollution and Infant Mortality in China.”?Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, Vol. 65(1), pp. 119-13.
Ebenstein,?Avraham, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Peng Yin, and Maigeng Zhou. “Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991-2012,”?American Economic Review (P&P), 2015, Vol. 105(5), pp. 226-231.