Political Economy, History and Development

​"When History Matters Little: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000" (with Ying Bai)  draft   slides 
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​"Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice: Theory and Evidence from China" (with Torsten Persson)  draft  appendix

• r&r, Journal of the European Economic Association

"Power and Productivity in Chinese Academia" (with Huihua Nie and Wei Xiao)  draft

• r&r, Journal of Comparative Economics

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"Pollution for Promotion" draft
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Education, Labor and Technology

"The Value of Elite Universities in China" (with Hongbin Li)  draft  slides

"Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China"  (with Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, and Tong Liu) ​​​