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accepted
"Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score: Elite College Admission and Wages in China" (w. Hongbin Li) 
  • Journal of Public Economics​​  pdf  
  • The Economist, Bloomberg

​"Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay between Individual and Social Motives" (with Torsten Persson)​
  • Journal of the European Economic Association  pdf  appendix 
  • Data and Code

​"Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from China's War on Air Pollution"  (w. Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, and
Tong Liu) 
  • American Economic Review: Insights pdf 
  • Data and Code
  • VoxDev: Technology as a tool for governance

​2019
"The Rise of Robots in China" (with Hong Cheng, Dandan Li, and Hongbin Li)  slides
  • Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, vol. 33 (2): 71-88. pdf
  • AEA's Chart of the Week: China's embrace of robots​​
  • LSE Business Review: Understanding China's robot phenomenon​
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​"Power and Publications in Chinese Academia" (with Huihua Nie and Wei Xiao)  
  • Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(4): 792-805. pdf​
  • Elephant in the lab

​"Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust"  (with Hyejin Ku) 
  • Economic Journal, 129 (624): 3154-3188. pdf
  • ​Media briefing

​2017
"Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths" (with Huihua Nie)  
  • Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99 (1), 105-118, working paper version pdf ​

2016
"Elite Recruitment and Political Stability: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service Exam" (with Ying Bai)
  •  Econometrica, vol. 84 (2), 677–733, working paper version pdf         
  •  Data Visualization​

 2015
"Political Selection in China: Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance" (with Masa Kudamatsu and David Seim)
  • Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 13 (4), 631-668, working paper version pdf
  • VoxEU column: Who becomes a top politician in China?

2014
"Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China" 
  • Economic Journal, vol. 124 (575), 92-118.  working paper version pdf
"The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China's Treaty Ports" 
  •  Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 96 (4),  596-608. working paper version pdf

​2012
"Decentralization and Military Coups" (with Pinghan Liang)   a new version with empirical evidence
  •  in Manas Chatterji (ed.) 2012, Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 20, 149-170. ​ ​
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