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Lei Fang is a research economist and associate adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Her research areas are macroeconomics, growth and development economics, and labor economics. She is an occasional contributor to the Atlanta Fed's macroblog, which provides commentary on economic topics including monetary policy, macroeconomic developments, and the Southeast economy.
Before joining the Bank in 2008, Dr. Fang was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and instructor at Arizona State University.
Dr. Fang received her bachelor's degree in economics from Beijing University in China. She earned her master's degree and doctorate in economics from Arizona State University.
2022-15
The Short and the Long of It: Stock-Flow Matching in the US Housing Market
Eric Smith, Zoe Xie, and Lei Fang
October 2022
2021-28
Luxuries, Necessities, and the Allocation of Time
Lei Fang, Anne Hannusch, and Pedro Silos
December 2021
2021-17
Taxes, Subsidies, and Gender Gaps in Hours and Wages
Robert Duval-Hernandez, Lei Fang, and Rachel Ngai
June 2021
2021-7b
Consumption and Hours in the United States and Europe
Lei Fang and Fang Yang
January 2021 (Revised October 2022)
2020-13c
A Quantitative Analysis of CARES Act Unemployment Insurance
Lei Fang, Jun Nie, and Zoe Xie
July 2020 (revised June 2022)
2020-1
Bundling Time and Goods: Implications for Hours Dispersion
Lei Fang, Anne Hannusch, and Pedro Silos
January 2020
2019-21a
High-Skilled Services and Development in China
Lei Fang and Berthold Herrendorf
November 2019 (Revised June 2021)
2014-5
Home Hours in the United States and Europe
Lei Fang and Cara McDaniel
June 2014
2014-5
Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market
Lei Fang and Jun Nie
February 2014
2012-19
Home Production Technology and Time Allocation: Empirics, Theory, and Implications
Lei Fang and Guozhong Zhu
December 2012
2012-16
Wages and Unemployment across Business Cycles: A High-Frequency Investigation
Lei Fang and Pedro Silos
October 2012
2011-14
Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa
El-hadj Bah and Lei Fang
November 2011
2010-16a
Entry Costs, Financial Friction, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and TFP
Lei Fang
September 2010
2009-8
Entry Barriers, Competition, and Technology Adoption
Lei Fang
March 2009
2009-7
Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
Lei Fang and Richard Rogerson
March 2009
Nicholas Croteau, Lei Fang, and Melinda Pitts. "The Pause and Resumption of the Wage Growth Tracker." Policy Hub: Macroblog. August 28, 2024.
Lei Fang, Melinda Pitts, and Michael Sparks. "Labor Supply of Newly Immigrated Workers." Policy Hub: Macroblog. August 19, 2024.
Lei Fang and John Robertson. "During the Pandemic, Average Hours Rose. And Fell." Policy Hub: Macroblog. October 5, 2023.
Lei Fang, Jun Nie, and Zoe Xie "Who Benefited Most from the CARES Act Unemployment Insurance Provisions?" Policy Hub (2022-4).
Lei Fang, Robert Duval-Hernández, and L. Rachel Ngai "Marketization of Home Production and Gender Gaps in Working Hours." Policy Hub (2021-7).
Lei Fang, Jun Nie, and Zoe Xie "The CARES Act Unemployment Insurance Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Policy Hub (2020-16).
Lei Fang and Pedro Silos "Wage Growth over Unemployment Spells." Policy Hub (2020-9).
"High-skilled Services and Development in China" with Berthold Herrendorf, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 151, June 2021, Article no. 102671.
"Time Allocation and Home Production Technology," with Guozhong Zhu, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 78, May 2017, Pages 88–101.
"Entry Barriers, Competition, and Technology Adoption." Economic Inquiry. September 2016.
"Home Hours in the United States and Europe," with Cara McDaniel. B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. July 2016.
"Entry Cost, Financial Friction, and Cross-country Differences in Income and TFP" with El-hadj Bah. Macroeconomic Dynamics. 2016, vol. 20(4), pages 884–908.
"Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa," with El-hadj Bah. Journal of Development Economics. 2015, vol. 114(C), pages 159–71.
"Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis," with Richard Rogerson. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 3(2), pages 163–88, April 2011.
"Policy Analysis in a Matching Model with Intensive and Extensive Margins," with Richard Rogerson. 2009, International Economic Review, vol 50–4.