Publications (Chinese Publications)
 

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 ]

     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 ]


Under Review

2021 “Chasing or Cheating? Theory and Evidence on the Reliability of China’s GDP” with Xue Sherry Qiao and Zhitao Zhu Revision Requested by Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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.

2021 “Robin Hood on the Great Canal: Economics Shocks and Rebellions in Qing China, 1650-1911” with Yiming Cao under review. [ Full text ]

2021 “Communism and Patricide: Collectivization and Domestic Violence in 1960s’ China” with Danli Wang and Xuejing Zuo under review.

2021 “Career Specialization and Pandemic Response” with Shipeng Yan, Danqing Wang and Yaohui Peng under review.

2021 “Accountability from Cyberspace? Scandals Exposure on the Internet and Official Governance in China” with Yiran Li.  under review [ Full text ]

2021 “Government Wrongdoings in the Past and Corporate Misconduct in the Present: Evidence from China” with Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin and Haichun Ye under review.

2021 “Pandemic and Insurance Purchase: The Behavioral Response to COVID-19” with Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu and Xuanyi Wang under review.

Completed

 

2021 “Starving and Deceiving: Famine Experience, Politician Risk Preference, and GDP Manipulation in China” with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang.

2021 “Promotion Club” with Xinyu Fan and Zhitao Zhu [ Full text ]

2021 “Canal and Grain: Transport Infrastructure and Market Integration in China:1780-1911” with Jianan Li and Qin Yao.

2021 “The Emperor's Tael: Fiscal Centralization, Commitment Problem and Tax Protests in Qing China, 1644-1912” with Max Yu Hao  [ Full text ]

2021 “Institutional Discrimation and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” with Bin Xie [ Full text ]

2021 “Trade or Raid” with Xinyu Fan and Yantong Fang.

2021 “Trade Shocks and Urbanization: Evidence from County-level Data in China” with Fang Wang, Xuanyi Wang and Yiran Li.

2021 “HER” Danqing Wang.

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 “Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody” with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang.


In Progress

 

2021 “The Rootless and the Ruthless: Elite Recruitment, Political Purges, and the Great Institutional Divergence” with Xinyu Fan and Zhenchen Huang.

2020 “Power Division and Institutionalization” with Tianyang Xi.

2020 “The Mythology of Two Hundred Million People: Egalitarianism, Welfare Benefits, and Population Growth”  with Bin Xie and Xiaohuan Lan.

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 “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”