Li, P., Tian, Y., Wu, J., & Xu, W. (2021). The Great Western Development policy: how it affected grain crop production, land use and rural poverty in western China. China Agricultural Economic Review. doi.org/10.1108/CAER-07-2020-0175

Xu, W., Li, M., & Bell, A. R. (2019). Water security and irrigation investment: evidence from a field experiment in rural Pakistan. Applied Economics, 51(7), 711-721. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1513634

Li, M., Xu, W., & Zhu, T. (2019). Agricultural water allocation under uncertainty: redistribution of water shortage risk. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(1), 134-153. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aay058

Xu, W., & Lowe, S. E. (2018). An integrated analysis of the effects of local water institutions on irrigated agriculture outcomes in the arid western United States. Applied Economics, 50(15), 1761-1776. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1374539

Li, M., Xu, W., & Rosegrant, M. W. (2017). Irrigation, risk aversion, and water right priority under water supply uncertainty. Water Resources Research, 53(9), 7885-7903. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019779

Rosegrant, M.W., Li, M., & Xu, W. (2017). Chapter 11: Beyond water markets: second-best water allocation policy? In Pingali, P. and Feder, G. (eds.), Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World. Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series. London, United Kingdom, and New York, United States: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Xu, W., & Li, M. (2016). Water supply and water allocation strategy in the arid US West: evidence from the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer. Regional Environmental Change, 16(3), 893-906. DOI 10.1007/s10113-015-0806-1

Wu, J., Xu, W., & Alig, R. J. (2016). How do the location, size and budget of open space conservation affect land values?. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 52(1), 73-97. DOI 10.1007/s11146-015-9506-3

Hanson, Z. K., Lowe, S. E., & Xu, W. (2015). Climate change, water supply, and agriculture in the arid western United States: eighty years of agricultural census observations from Idaho. Global Water Forum (http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2015/01/26/climate-change-water-supply-and-agriculture-in-the-arid-western-united-states-eighty-years-of-agricultural-census-observations-from-idaho/)

Xu, W., Lowe, S. E., & Adams, R. M. (2014). Climate change, water rights, and water supply: The case of irrigated agriculture in Idaho. Water Resources Research, 50(12), 9675-9695. doi: 10.1002/2013WR014696, featured in AGU Editor Highlight (http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/article/10.1002/2013WR014696/editor-highlight/)

Xu, W., Lowe, S. E., and Adams, R. M. (2014). Research Spotlight: Climate change, water rights and water supplies: the case of irrigated agriculture in Idaho. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union 95(19), 164.

Xu, W., Lowe, S. E., & Zhang, S. (2014). An analysis of irrigated agricultural outcomes under the prior appropriation doctrine: hypotheses and applications. Applied Economics, 46(22), 2639-2652. dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2014.907483

Hansen, Z. K., Lowe, S. E., & Xu, W. (2014). Long-term impacts of major water storage facilities on agriculture and the natural environment: Evidence from Idaho (US). Ecological Economics, 100, 106-118. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.01.015

Xu, W., & Wu, J.  (2012). Amenity-driven migration and the spatial distribution of economic activity, in Heide, M.V.D. and Heijman, W. (eds.), The Economic Value of Landscapes, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Books