Working Papers
"High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China", 2018
Melanie Meng Xue
New version coming soon
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Media Coverage: Aeon, BBC Radio 4, Dissenter, Economics Detective
"Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China", 2018
Melanie Meng Xue, Mark Koyama
Latest version: April 2020
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Media Coverage: ChinaEconTalk, Notes on Liberty, Washington Post
Stelios Michalopoulos, Melanie Meng Xue
Revision Requested , Quarterly Journal of Economics
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Media Coverage: Barron's, Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab
Work in Progress
Asylums
Extreme Poverty and a Culture of Violence
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China, with Boxiao Zhang
Publications
Book Review for "M. Tanimoto and R. B. Wong, Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe"
Melanie Meng Xue
Economic History Review 73 (2020): 335-336.
"Friends from Afar: Migration, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in Lower Yangzi,1850-1949"
Yu Hao, Melanie Meng Xue
Explorations in Economic History 63 (2017): 44-69.
Older Working Papers
John Nye, Melanie Meng Xue
- Media Coverage: Freakonomics