Political Economy, Economic History, and Development

Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood (w. David Strömberg) draft Aug. 2026
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Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China (w. Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang) draft  Aug. 2025

• Book bans | CEPR 
• Book bans cast a shadow, but also hold a silver lining - GPS News ​​ ​

Press and Political Pioneers: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China (w. Ying Bai and Runnan Wang​) draft  Apr. 2026

• r&r, JEEA​

Education, Labor, and Technology

Improving Regulation for Innovation: Evidence from China’s Pharmaceutical Industry (w.  Xiao Ma, Jianan Yang and Yiran Zhang) draft Aug. 2026

• r&r, AEJ: Economic Policy

The Ripple Effects of China's College Expansion on American Universities (w. Gaurav Khanna, Hongbin Li and Yuli Xu) draft Apr. 2026

• A flood of Chinese graduate students in STEM was a boon to U.S. students | Science 
• r&r, EJ

Geopolitics in the Evaluation of International Scientific Collaboration (w.  Alexander C. Furnas,   Margaret E. Roberts and Dashun Wang) draft Feb. 2026

• Summary | CEPR

Taking a Breather...

Rotating to the Top: How Career Tracks Matter in the Chinese Communist Party ​ (w. Yiqing Xu) draft June 2020