Assistant Professor of Economics | RUC
Working Papers
Industrial Policy in a New Era: Government Venture Capital in the U.S.-China Trade War (with Robin Gong and Jinlin Li), updated Jul. 2023. [Link]
State-Building or State-Weakening? The Consequences of Military Control in Medieval China (with Erik Wang), draft coming soon.
Political Elites and Human Capital Formation in Pre-Imperial China, updated Jan. 2024. [Link]
Publications
From Powerholders to Stakeholders: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China (with Erik Wang and Xiaoming Zhang). [WP Version]
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American Journal of Political Science, conditionally accepted
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Previously titled "Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China"
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Media: Broadstreet
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China. [WP Version]
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Journal of Economic History, accepted
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Best Paper Award, International Symposium of Quantitative History, 2018
Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm: How Government Policies Affect SMEs in China (with Zijun Cheng, Robin Gong and Jinlin Li). [Link] [WP Version]
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China Economic Review, 2022
Media Attention and Choice of Major: Evidence from Anti-Doctor Violence in China (with Shiyu Bo, Yan Song and Sen Zhou). [Link] [WP Version]
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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020
Book Reviews
Review of The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Richard von Glahn (with Avner Greif). [Link]
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2018