publications (中文发表)

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. accepted by China Economic Review.  [ 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 ]

     AEA Chart of the Week: Animal Sacrifice | Marginal Revolution: Draft Animals as Common Property

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 ]


paper under review

2019 “Gone with the Wind? Neighboring Thermal Power Plants’ Emissions and Local Public Health in China” with Yiran Li, Guang Shi and Zhitao Zhu. [ Full text ]

2019 “Tractor vs. Animal: Rural Reforms and Technology Adoption in China” with Xiaohuan Lan. [ Full text ]

2019 “Move to Success? Headquarters Relocation, Political Favouritism, and Corporate Performance” with Bo Yang and Xun Yan. [ Full text ]

2019 “Robin Hood on the Great Canal: Economics Shocks and Rebellions in Qing China, 1650-1911” with Yiming Cao. [ Full text ]

2019 “Promotion Club” with Xinyu Fan and Zhitao Zhu.  [ Full text ]

2019 “Making Reform Work: Evidence from A Quasi-Natural Experiment in Rural China” with Xiao Ma  [ Full text ]

2019 “Trade Shocks and Urbanization: Evidence from County-level Data in China” with Xuanyi Wang and Yiran Li. [ Full text ]

2019 “Institutional Discrimation and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” with Bin Xie. [ Full text ]

2019 “Chasing or Cheating? Theory and Evidence on the Reliability of China’s GDP” with Xue Sherry Qiao and Zhitao Zhu. [ Full text ]

2018 “Accountability from Cyberspace? Scandals Exposure on the Internet and Official Governance in China” with Yiran Li. [ Full text ]

2018 “Running out of Steam? Political Terms and FDI Inflow in China”  with Danqing Wang and Zhitao Zhu. [ Full text ]

　

completed papers 

2019 “The Emperor's Tael: Fiscal Centralization, Commitment Problem and Tax Protests in Qing China, 1644-1912” with Max Yu Hao. [ Full text ]

2018 “War Making: the Formation of Big Oriental Despotism, 221 BC to 1910 AD” with Debin Ma.

2017 “Secrets of Ghost Towns: Career Incentives and Politically Driven Urbanization in China” with Yiran Li.

　


 work in progress

2019 “Anti-corruption Campaigns and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody” with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang.

2019 “Lynching vs. Law: A History of Vigilantes” with Xinyu Fan and Bo Yang.

2019 “The Great Depression, the Great Revolution” with Ting Chen and Chong Liu.

2019 “The Cultural Revolution and China's Political Labor Market” with Nancy Qian, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel and Xuanyi Wang.

2019 “The Mythology of Two Hundred Million People: Egalitarianism, Welfare Benefits, and Population Growth”  with Bin Xie.

2019 "Gentry Class and Chinese Society: Testing Tocqueville" with Bin Xie.

2019 “The Art of Conquering: Local Insurgency and Dominant Minority in Qing China, 1644-1912” with Colin Xu, Xun Yan.

2019 “State and Worm” with Xiaohuan Lan, Bo Yang and Nancy Qian.

2019 “Communism and Patricide” with Danli Wang and Xuejing Zuo.

2019 “Starving and Deceiving: Famine Experience, Politician Risk Preference, and GDP Manipulation in China” 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”