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Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), October 2021--
New York University - Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of Economics, September 2019 -- August 2022 (Year Zero, 2019 - 2020; On leave, 2021 - 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Department of Economics and Center for Economic History, September 2017 -- August 2019 (Supervisor: Joel Mokyr)
Academic Affiliations
Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), 2024 –
Research Affiliate, Center for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), 2023 –
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), September 2015 -- December 2017
Concentration: Economic History and Economic Development
Mentor: Paola Giuliano
PhD in Economics, George Mason University, 2015
MA in Finance, Claremont McKennna College, 2010
BA in Economics, Fudan University (minor in Legal Studies), 2009
Fields of Interest
Economic History, Political Economy, Cultural Economics, Development Economics
Professional Activities
Referee -- American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Review: Insights, Cambridge Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economica, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics; Australian Economic History Review, Business History, Economic History of Developing Regions, Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, Research in Economic History, Social Science History; Science; Economics and Politics, Journal of Peace Research; Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton University Press; Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation.
Invited Seminars
2025 (scheduled) University of Bristol, Queen's University Belfast, University of York, Utrecht University, University of Bergamo, THEMA - ESSEC, Science Po, History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop.
2024 University of Glasgow, LSE, Helsinki GSE, PKU INSE, University of Auckland, University of Sussex; (scheduled) Paris School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.
2023 LSE Public Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Universidad Carlos III, St Andrews, University of Manchester, Cardiff University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, Duke Kunshan, Fudan University, Notre Dame, Penn, Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
2022 LSE Asia Economic History Seminar, Chicago Booth, Oxford, University of Warwick, King's College London, Queen Mary, ISER Macro/Trade Workshop, International Macro History Online Seminar, University of Western Australia, Boston University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2021 London School of Economics, Yale, Brown Growth Breakfast, Peking University, Korea University, C-BID, JEES, POLECONUK Webinar, Swansea, University College London (SSEES).
2020 Bonn, University of Hong Kong, LEAP Webinar.
2019 Stockholm University, University of Nottingham, George Mason University, Amherst.
Job Market Seminars: Chicago Harris, NYU Abu Dhabi, CKGSB.
2018 Toulouse IAST, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Copenhagen, Université Catholique de Louvain, Higher School of Economics, New Economic School, Trinity College, Northwestern, UC San Diego.
2017 Brown, Northwestern, Williams College, UC Irvine, NYU Stern.
2016 Bonn, Toulouse IAST, Bologna, HKUST, NUS Business School, UNSW Sydney, Monash, Chapman University, UCLA Economic History Proseminar, UCLA Anderson Brown Bag, University of Arizona, UC Davis.
Workshops & Sessions Organized
2024 Co-organizer, Workshop on Institutions and Political Economy in Historical Perspective, LSE. Link
2024 Organizer, Session "Culture and Narratives," EHS.
2023 Co-organizer, LSE Chinese Economic and Social History Workshop.
2022 Co-organizer, Session "The Infrastructure of Power in East Asian Empires," WEHC Paris.
2022 Organizer, Workshop "History, Culture and Popular Beliefs", LSE
2021 Organizer, Session "Gender Norms in a Historical Perspective," EHS.
Courses Taught
London School of Economics:
Chinese Economic History: Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth. 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II. 2023, 2024
Economic Growth, Development, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective. 2023, 2024
NYU Abu Dhabi:
Global Economic, Political and Social Development Since 1500. Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Northwestern University:
Topics in Economic History: Economic History of China. Fall 2017, Fall 2018