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 PNAS, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, Nature Climate Change, Nature Cities, Applied Energy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 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

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


 
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  • Yi Fan, "Predictive Infrequent Activities", Nature Cities (2024) 1, 260-261. [Impact Factor: 15.3]
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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​
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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WORK IN PROGRESS
  • Fertility and Retirement (with Shuangshuang Song and Yewen Yu)
  • Flood and Household Finance (with Xiaonan Guo, Yuxiao Hu, Ce Shi, and Jianfei Zhao)
  • Biodiversity and Human Behavior (with Qiuxia Gao and Hanchen Jiang)
  • Green Symbiosis (with Jiachen Jerry Lyu, Binglin Wang, and Xinyan Yao)
  • Robo-Taxi and the City (with Yifan Fu, Shuai Ling, and Binglin Wang)