研究领域：

劳动经济学、发展经济学、应用微观计量经济学

研究项目：

    纵向课题

（1）主持《互联网时代的零工经济就业新趋势研究：供需关系、空间分布与流动状况》，教育部人文社科青年项目，8万，结题，2022-2024（已刊发论文2篇）；

（2）主持《中国城市家庭膳食结构变化对劳动力健康影响的因果分析》，国家自然科学基金青年项目，20万，结题，2019-2022（已刊发论文11篇）；

（3）主持《劳动力市场分割背景下的高低技能互补研究：以保姆市场为例》，教育部人文社科青年项目，8万，结题，2018-2021（已刊发论文3篇）；

（4）参与《中国高投资和供给结构失衡的微观机制研究：基于土地和信贷资源错配的视角》，国家自然科学基金青年项目，20.7万，结题，2019-2022。

横向课题

（1）主持《长三角一体化背景下的大城市家政市场研究》，中国人口福利基金会与招商局慈善基金联合资助的“中国当代社会治理研究（第二期）”项目，5万，结题，2020-2022。

（2）主持《家政行业发展对我国城市育龄家庭生育选择的影响研究》，人的发展经济学研究中心资助的2024年度项目，5万，结题，2024。

学术发表：

1.     何晓波，石成，宗庆庆，2023，《我国城市家政市场的工资：基于街道层面需求数据的证据》,《经济学（季刊）》第5期。

2.   Altaf-Ul Alam, Mohammad and He, Xiaobo. 2022. “Is the discrimination against migrant workers tending towards zero in urban China?”, International Studies of Economics, 17, 65-81.

3.   He, Xiaobo; Luo, Zijun; Zhang, Junjie. 2022. “The impact of air pollution on movie theater admissions”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 112, 102626. (SSCI/SCI)

4.   He, Xiaobo and Xiao, Fang. 2020. “Unintended consequences of lockdowns: Evidence from domestic helpers in urban China”, Frontiers of Economics in China, 15, 521-540.

5.   He, Xiaobo and Luo, Zijun. 2020. “Does Hukou pay? Evidence from nanny markets in urban China”, China Economic Review, 63, 101509. (SSCI)

6.   Nie, Peng; He, Xiaobo; Sousa-Poza Alfonso. 2018. Child loss and maternal wages in China, Asian Population Studies, 14: 96-112. (SSCI）

7.   Fan, Wen and He, Xiaobo. 2017. “Differences in the response heterogeneity of educational attainment and achievement to the same instrumental variable”, Applied Economics Letters, 24: 1315-1319. (SSCI)

8.   Zhu, Hongiia; Deng, Yongheng; Zhu, Rong;He, Xiaobo. 2016. “Fear of nuclear power: Evidence from Fukushima nuclear disaster and the land market in China”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 60: 139-154. (SSCI)

9.   He, Xiaobo and Zhu, Rong. 2016. “Fertility and female labour force participation: Causal evidence from urban China”, Manchester School, 84: 664-674. (SSCI)

10. Zhu, Rong and He, Xiaobo. 2015. “How does women's happiness respond to retirement? A two-stage analysis”, Economics Letters, 137: 118-122.(SSCI)

11. Wang, Fang; Miao, Degang; He, Xiaobo. 2015. “Did civilian granaries affect social stability? Empirical evidence from the Qing Dynasty (1817-1856)”, Frontiers of Economics in China, 10: 483-508.

12. Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo. 2015. “Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China”, China Economic Review, 35: 47-69.(SSCI)

13. Umberger, Wendy; He, Xiaobo; Minot, Nicholas; Toiba, Hery. 2015. “Examining the relationship between the use of supermarkets and over-nutrition in Indonesia”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 97: 510-525.(SSCI&SCI)

14. He, Xiaobo and Sim, Nicholas. 2015. “Does economic growth affect urbanization? New evidence from China and the Chinese National Congress”, Journal of Asian Economics, 36: 62-71.

15. Chen, Shuo and He, Xiaobo. 2015. “Road to success? The effects of road toll on economic growth in China”, Applied Economics Letters, 22: 158-162. (SSCI)

16. He, Xiaobo and Findlay, Christopher. 2014.  “Policy restrictions and services performance: Evidence from 32 countries”, Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, 5: 14400.

17. Lin, Faqin; Huang, Can; He, Xiaobo and Zhang, Chao. 2013. “Do higher educated entrepreneurs matter?”, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 27: 104-116.(SSCI)

18. Zhang, Zhengyu and He, Xiaobo. 2012. “Estimation of a heteroscedastic binary choice model with an endogenous dummy regressor”, Economics Letters, 117: 753-757.(SSCI)