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Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China (w. Ying Bai​ and Jiaojiao Yang) 
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics pdf​
  • Data and Code​

2022
​​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, 4(1): 54-70. pdf
  • Data and Code
  • VoxDev: Technology as a tool for governance

​The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Regime Changes in China, 1000-2000 C.E. (w. Ying Bai)
  • Review of Economics and Statistics pdf​ 
  • Data and Code​
  • Masahiko Aoki Award 2021
  • ​Distinguished CESifo Research Affiliate Award, 2018, summary

​2021
Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses (w. Xiaohuan Lan and Gerard Padró I Miquel) slides 
  • Journal of Development Economics pdf

​Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score: Elite College Admission and Wages in China  (w. Hongbin Li) 
  • Journal of Public Economics, 2021, vol. 196​​  pdf  
  • The Economist, Bloomberg, Times Higher Education

​Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay between Individual and Social Motives (with Torsten Persson)​
  • Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021,  vol. 19 (2): 1203-1248.  pdf 
  • Data and Code

​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, vol. 47(4): 792-805. pdf​
  • Elephant in the lab, LSE Blog, University World News

​Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust  (with Hyejin Ku) 
  • Economic Journal, vol. 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. pdf
  • Data and Code

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 pdf     
  •  Data and Code, 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. pdf
  • VoxEU column: Who becomes a top politician in China?
  • Data and Code

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

​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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