Research

Peer-reviewed jour­nal ar­ti­cles

1. Quantifying Recreational Benefits from Fish Consumption Advisories: Insights from Cell Phone Mobility Data

   Xibo Wan, Yongwang Ren, Ruohao Zhang, Jiameng Zheng, and Wendong Zhang (2026).

   Land Economics, 102(3), 313–338.

2. Impacts of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act Arsenic Rule on Arsenic Occurrence

   Margarita Petrusevich, Wes Austin, Jiameng Zheng, Mary F. Evans, Lala Ma, and Sheila Olmstead (2025).

   Environmental Science & Technology, 59(41), 21790–21800.

3. Harmonized Database of Western US Water Rights (HarDWR) v. 1

   Matthew Lisk, Danielle S. Grogan, Shan Zuidema, Jiameng Zheng, Robert Caccese, Darrah Peklak, Karen Fisher-Vanden, Richard B. Lammers, Sheila M. Olmstead, and Lara Fowler (2024).

   Scientific Data, 11(1), 598.

4. A More Comprehensive Estimate of the Value of Water Quality

   Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila Olmstead, and Jiameng Zheng (2022).

   Journal of Public Economics, 207, 104600. *

5. Water Pollution Control in Developing Countries: Policy Instruments and Empirical Evidence

   Sheila Olmstead and Jiameng Zheng (2021).

   Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 15(2), 261–280. *

6. Trends in Nutrient-Related Pollution as a Source of Potential Water Quality Damages: A Case Study of Texas, USA

   Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila M. Olmstead, Derek C. Wietelman, and Jiameng Zheng (2020).

   Science of the Total Environment, 724, 137962.

* Equal con­tri­bu­tion among au­thors listed al­pha­bet­i­cally.

Other pub­li­ca­tions

• Libin Zhang, Sheng Shao, Fang Dong, and Jiameng Zheng (2020). Access to Water for Hydraulic Fracturing in China. In Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas (pp. 113–134), Springer.

Working pa­pers

• Bringing Hydrologic Realism to Water Markets

  With Karen Fisher-Vanden, Danielle Grogan, Richard Lammers, Matthew Lisk, Sheila Olmstead, Shan Zuidema, Alex Prusevich, and Lara Fowler.

  Revise and re­sub­mit, Water Resources Research

• The Effect of Lead from Drinking Water on Long-Run Educational Outcomes

  In sub­mis­sion

• Purchase-Based Estimates of Household Dietary PFAS Exposure in the United States: Magnitude, Disparities, and the Role of Dietary Composition

  With Jiahui Guo, Ruohao Zhang, Yongwang Ren, Xibo Wan, and Wendong Zhang.

  In sub­mis­sion

• Health and Mobility Impacts of Industrial Chemical Accidents

  Working pa­per; prepar­ing for sub­mis­sion

• Estimating Water Quality Benefits and Distributional Impacts in Three U.S. Regions

  With Yoojin Cha, Daniel Douglas, Dimitris Friesen, Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila Olmstead, and Daniel Phaneuf.

  Working pa­per; prepar­ing for sub­mis­sion

• Health Impacts of Natural Disasters

  With Andrew Ireland, David Molitor, and Tatyana Deryugina.

  Working pa­per

Selected works in progress

• Using Mobility Data to Estimate Water Quality Benefits

  With Yoojin Cha, Daniel Douglas, Dimitris Friesen, Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila Olmstead, and Daniel Phaneuf.

• Hedonic Analysis of Invasive Aquatic Plants on Property Values in Louisiana

  With Garrett Wainright, Jerrod Penn, Thomas Douthat, Victoria Moreno, Ivan Grijalva, and Rodrigo Diaz.

Selected re­search recog­ni­tion

• ASHEcon Program Chair Award — Environment and Health (2026)

  Award for an out­stand­ing ab­stract in the Environment and Health pro­gram area for “Resilient or Scarred? Mortality and Morbidity af­ter Natural Disasters.”

Selected re­search pre­sen­ta­tions

For a more com­plete pre­sen­ta­tion his­tory, see my cur­ricu­lum vi­tae.

Public schol­ar­ship & com­men­tary

• You can be ex­posed to PFAS through food, wa­ter, even swim­ming in lakes — new maps show how risk from ‘forever chem­i­cals’ varies

  Ruohao Zhang, Jiameng Zheng, Wendong Zhang, and Xibo Wan (2025). The Conversation, September 4, 2025.