Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population
Published in Applied Geography, 2025
This paper studies spatial matching by top-down planning and bottom-up individual choice.
Publications
Journal Articles, Working Papers, &Conference Presentations/Papers.
Journal Articles
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities
Published in Applied Economics Letters, 2025
This brief research is the discussion of our last paper in Applied Economics, finding that some super pairs are consistently matched regardless of trade-offs after several rounds of stable matchings.
Application of Gale-Shapley algorithm in optimal matching for healthcare facilities to elderly population: the case of Hangzhou, China
Published in Applied Economics, 2024
This paper serves as the first empirical research applying the Nobel Prize winning Gale-Shapley algorithm to study optimal stable matching of healthcare facilities to residential neighbourhoods.
Working Papers
A paper on market discrimination in housing choice vouchers program
Written in 2026
Lepeng Huang, & Arthur Acolin.
Regional Income Inequality, Individual Household Leverage, and Housing Consumption
Written in 2026
Lepeng Huang, Christian Phillips, Austin Mathew Sibu, & Arthur Acolin.
Asymmetric and Directional Interactions across the Space, Asset and Capital Markets in Real Estate: Evidence from 132 Cities in China
Written in 2026
This paper examines and provides empirical evidence for two classic theoretical papers.
Leverage Shocks, Market Frictions, and Downturn of China’s Urban Housing Market
Written in 2026
This paper is among the first to examine the structural downturn of housing (real estate) market in China. Accepted for presentation in IACP 2026 Conference.
Conference Presentations/Papers
A Probabilistic Capital Cost Modeling Framework for Reducing Financial Uncertainty in EV Charging Infrastructure Deployment
Presented at International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2026, 2026
Abdul-Razak Alidu, Lepeng Huang, & Hyun Woo Lee.
On Feasible and Stable Spatial Matching of Urban Healthcare Facilities and Population
Presented at The 18th International Association for China Planning Conference and 2024 Chinese Economists Society China Annual Conference, 2024
This paper is the extended version of Simulated Stable Matching for Urban Hospitals and Residential Communities. I made oral presentations at the two conferences.