2021 “Warcraft:
The Legitimacy Building of Usurpers”
with
Xinyu Fan.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
184:
409-31.
[ Full text ]
2020 “Running
out of Steam? Political Terms and FDI Inflow in China”
with
Danqing Wang,
Zhitao Zhu
and
Xiaowei, Rose Luo.
Forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies.
[ Full text ]
2020 “Tractor
vs. Animal: Rural Reforms and Technology Adoption in China”
with
Xiaohuan Lan.
Journal of Development Economics
147: 1-10.
[ Full text ]
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 ]
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 ]
2017
“There
Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals”
with Xiaohuan Lan.
American Economic Journal: Applied Ecnomocs
9(4): 58-77.
[
Full text
]
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 ]
2011 “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
]
[
Data and programs
]
Under
Review
2021 “Gone
with the Wind? Neighboring Thermal Power Plants’ Emissions and Local Public
Health in China” with
Yiran Li,
Guang Shi
and Zhitao Zhu
Revision Requested by
Chinese Economics Review
2020
“Promotion
Club” with
Xinyu Fan and
Zhitao Zhu
under review.
[ Full text ]
2020
“Chasing
or Cheating? Theory and Evidence on the Reliability of China’s GDP”
with
Xue Sherry Qiao and
Zhitao Zhu
under review.
2020 “Communism
and Patricide: Collectivization and Domestic Violence in 1960s’ China” with
Danli Wang and
Xuejing
Zuo
under review.
2020 “Government
Wrongdoings in the Past and Corporate Misconduct in the Present:
Evidence from China”
with
Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin and
Haichun Ye under
review.
2020 “Robin
Hood on the Great Canal: Economics Shocks and Rebellions in Qing China,
1650-1911”
with Yiming
Cao
under
review.
[ Full text
]
2020 “Pandemic
and Insurance Purchase: The Behavioral Response to COVID-19”
with
Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu and Xuanyi Wang
under review.
2020 “The
Emperor's Tael: Fiscal Centralization, Commitment Problem and Tax Protests in
Qing China, 1644-1912”
with
Max Yu Hao
under review.
[ Full
text ]
2020 “Institutional
Discrimation and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882”
with Bin Xie
[ Full text ]
2019 “Trade
Shocks and Urbanization: Evidence from County-level Data in China”
with Fang Wang, Xuanyi Wang and
Yiran Li.
2018 “Accountability
from Cyberspace? Scandals Exposure on the Internet and Official Governance in
China”
with
Yiran Li.
under
review
[
Full text
]
Completed
2020 “States
and Wars: China’s Long March towards Unity and its Consequences, 221
BC-1911 AD”
with Debin Ma.
[ Full text
]
2020 “The
Art of the Duo: Local Insurgency and Dominant Minority in Qing China,
1644-1912” with
Xinyu
Fan,
Colin Xu,
Xun Yan.
2020 “Starving
and Deceiving: Famine Experience, Politician Risk Preference, and GDP
Manipulation in China”
with
Xinyu Fan
and
Xuanyi Wang.
2020
“Godfather
Politicians and Organized Violence:
The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody”
with
Xinyu Fan
and Xuanyi Wang.
2020
“The
Mythology of Two Hundred Million People: Egalitarianism, Welfare Benefits, and
Population Growth” with
Bin Xie and
Xiaohuan Lan.
In Progress
2021 “The
Rootless and the Ruthless: Elite Recruitment, Political Purges, and the
Great Institutional Divergence”
with
Xinyu Fan
and
Zhenchen Huang.
2021 “Trade
or Raid”
with
Xinyu Fan
and
Yantong Fang.
2020
“Power
Division and Institutionalization” with
Tianyang Xi.
2020 “Lynching
vs. Law: A History of Vigilantes”
with
Xinyu Fan
and
Bo Yang.
2020 “The Great Depression, the Great Revolution”
with
Ting Chen.
2020“Transport
Infrastructure and Trade Integration: Historical Evidence from China’s
Grand Canal (1740-1911)”
with
Jianan Li and
Qin Yao.
2020
“Influence
Activities in Academia: Evidence from Social Media”
with
Changyu Lu and
Xinyu Fan.
2019
“Gentry Class
and Chinese Society: Testing Tocqueville”
with Bin Xie.
2019
“State
and Worm”
with
Xuanyi Wang.
2018
“The
Clash of Legitimacies (and The Remaking of Political Order): The Origins of CR
Revisited” with
Xinyu Fan.
2018
“Make
Love, Not War: Interethnic Marriage and Conflict”