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2025
“The Abolition of People’s Communes and Fertility Decline in Rural China”
with Bin Xie, Journal of Development Economics 172: 103375.
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2024
“Starving and Deceiving: Famine Experience, Politician Risk Preference, and GDP Manipulation in China”
with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang, Public Choice 1-20.
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2024
“Canal and Trade: Transport Infrastructure and Market Integration in China:1780-1911”
with Jianan Li and Qin Yao, Journal of Comparative Economics 52(4): 793-812.
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2024
“The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture: Elite Control Versus Cooperation in China”
with Raymond Fisman, Xiaohuan Lan, Yongxiang Wang, and Qing Ye, forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
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2024
“Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882”
with Bin Xie, Explorations in Economic History 101615. [Full text]
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2024
“The Persistent Effects of Historical China’s Permanent Forced Military Service System: the Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor”
with Danli Wang, Journal of Historical Political Economy 4(2): 159-187.
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2023
“Communism and Patricide: Collectivization and Domestic Violence in 1960s’ China”
with Danli Wang and Yaohui Peng, Economic History Review 77(2): 703-727.
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2023
“Pandemic and Insurance Purchase: The Behavioral Response to COVID-19”
with Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu, and Xuanyi Wang, China Economic Review 79: 101946.
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2023
“In the Shadow of Administrative Decentralization: The Impact of Devolution on Subnational Service Provision”
with Yiran Li and Yaohui Peng, American Review of Public Administration 53.7-8: 280-295. [Full text]
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2023
“Competence-Loyalty Tradeoff under Dominant Minority Rule: The Case of Centuries of Manchu Rule”
with Xinyu Fan, Colin Xu, Xun Yan, Journal of Public Economics 220: 104843. [Full text]
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2023
“Accountability from Cyberspace? Scandals Exposure on the Internet and Official Governance in China”
with Yiran Li, Political Science Research and Methods 12(1): 130-145. [Full text]
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2022
“From Past Lies to Current Misconduct: The Long Shadow of China's Great Leap Forward”
with Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin and Haichun Ye, Journal of Development Economics 157: 102888. [Full text]
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2022
“Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–1911”
with Yiming Cao, American Economic Review 112(5): 1555-90. [Full text]
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2021
“Chasing or Cheating? Theory and Evidence on the Reliability of China’s GDP”
with Xue Sherry Qiao and Zhitao Zhu, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 189: 657-71. [Full text]
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2021
“Gone with the wind? Emissions of Neighboring Coal-fired Power Plants and Local Public Health in China”
with Yiran Li, Guang Shi and Zhitao Zhu, China Economics Review 69: 101660. [Full text]
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2021
“Warcraft: The Legitimacy Building of Usurpers”
with Xinyu Fan. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 184: 409-31. [Full text]
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2021
“Running out of Steam? Political Terms and FDI Inflow in China”
with Danqing Wang, Zhitao Zhu and Xiaowei Rose Luo, Journal of International Business Studies 52: 692-717. [Full text]
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2020
“Tractor vs. Animal: Rural Reforms and Technology Adoption in China”
with Xiaohuan Lan, Journal of Development Economics 147: 1-10. [Full text]
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2020
“Move to Success? Headquarters Relocation, Political Favoritism, and Corporate Performance”
with Bo Yang and Xun Yan, Journal of Corporate Finance 64: 1-31. [Full text]
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2018
“The Health Costs of the Industrial Leap Forward in China: Evidence from the Sulfur Dioxide Emissions of Coal‐fired Power Stations”
with Yiran Li and Qin Yao, China Economic Review 49: 68-83. [Full text]
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2017
“There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals”
with Xiaohuan Lan. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9(4): 58-77. [Full text]
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2016
“Of Maize and Men: The Effect of a New World Crop on Population and Economic Growth in China”
with James KUNG, Journal of Economic Growth 21: 71-99. [Full text]
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2011
“The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine”
with James KUNG, American Political Science Review 105 (1): 27-45. [Full text]
under review
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2024
“Salience and Persistent Reference Dependence: The Lasting Effect of Man-made Disasters on Risk Perceptions”
with Yang Cai and Dongxu Li, revision requested by Journal of Corporate Finance.
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2024
“Generalist Middle Managers and Strategy Implementation”
with Shipeng Yan and Danqing Wang, revision requested by Journal of Management Study.
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2024
“Trade or Raid? The Tea-Horse Trades and the Sino-Nomadic Conflicts, 1368-1432”
with Xinyu Fan and Yantong Fang, revision requested by Journal of Economic History.
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2024
“Political Stake and Policy Experimentation”
with Zhaotian Luo and Tianyang Xi, under review.
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2024
“Deluge and the Multivariate Origin of Civilizations”
with Xinyu Fan, and Yanfei Yin, under review.
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2023
“The Rule of Noble Lie: Omens, Taxes and Rebellions in Imperial China”
with Shuo Shi, Xican Xi, Jun Zhang, and Yanren Zhang, under review.
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2023
“Knowledge for Lineage: Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China”
with Sijie Hu and Shouying Liu, under review.
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2023
“Gun and Resources: War Extractions and Government Paradigm Shifts”
with Xinyu Fan, Yongtao Li and Yanfei Yin, under review.
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2023
“Masters of Masterpieces: Collector Changes and Social Mobility in Pre-modern Societies”
with Xinyu Fan and Yanfei Yin, under review.
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2023
“States and Wars: China’s Long March towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC-1911 AD””
with Debin Ma, under review.
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2023
“The Mobile Principal: The Political Economy of War and Capital Location”
with Xinyu Fan and Yongtao Li, under review.
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2023
“Noble No More: Keju, Institutional Commitment, and Political Purges”
with Xinyu Fan and Zhichen Huang, under review.
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2023
“Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody”
with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang, under review.
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2022
“The Emperor's Tael: Fiscal Centralization, Commitment Problem and Tax Protests in Qing China, 1644-1912”
with Xinyu Fan, Max Yu Hao, and Yuzheng Wang, under review.
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2023
“The Diversity Mandate, Men’s Resistance and Promotion of Female Government Officials”
with Shipeng Yan and Danqing Wang, under review.
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2022
“Validation through Social Comparison on Social Media: Evidence from Chinese Academia”
with Xinyu Fan, Albert Roh, Weilei (Stone) Shi and Yinuo Tang, under review.
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2022
“Promotion Club”
with Xinyu Fan and Zhitao Zhu, under review.
completed
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2024
“Gender Quota and Female Political Representation: Evidence from China”
with Sijie Hu and Yuzheng Wang.
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2024
“Tying Your Hands: How Stringency of Funding System Shapes Academic Productivity and Behaviors”
with Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu, and Yanfei Yin
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2024
“Eternal or Immortal: Why Elixir for Leader is Poison for Successor? ”
with Yanren Zhang.
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2024
“Historical Origins of Public-private Partnership: The Case of Government Venture Capial in China”
with Yang Cai and Dongxu Li.
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2024
“When Swords Need Words: Military Unification and Pro-Religion Rule”
with Yanren Zhang and Chong Zhuo.
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2023
“The Power of Words: Adult Literacy Campaign and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital”
with Zhuoer Lin, and Yanfei Yin.
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2023
“Efficient Communication as a Double-Edged Sword on Social Movement - Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China, 1870- 1911”
with Pei Gao, Zhichen Huang and Yu-Hsiang Lei.
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2023
“State Building and Revenge in Pre-modern China: The Decline of Xiayi”
with Xinyu Fan, Bo Yang and Yuzheng Wang.
in progress
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2020
“The Great Depression, the Great Revolution”
with Ting Chen.
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2019
“Gentry Class and Chinese Society: Testing Tocqueville”
with Bin Xie and Zhuoer Lin.
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2018
“Make Love, Not War: Interethnic Marriage and Conflict”
with Yuzheng Wang.
book chapter
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“Redistribution and Development: Good Redistribution as Empowerment”
in Institutional Foudnation of Economic Development, by Shiping Tang. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.