Working Papers
High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China, 2018
Melanie Meng Xue
Recently presented at: IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting for Labor Economists, Amherst College (Asian Languages and Civilizations), SITE (Stockholm), North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Towards Sustained Economic Growth, Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Copenhagen, NYU Stern
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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
Recently presented at: NYU QCSS-3, WPSA Mini-Conference on Autocratic Politics, NBER Organizational Economics, NYUAD, Chicago Harris, CKGSB, UC San Diego, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: V Calvó-Armengol Workshop, UC Davis, Cliometric Society, Stanford Political Science, Queen's University Belfast, Higher School of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, Stanford Economics, Life & Legacy of Douglass North Conference
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Media Coverage: ChinaEconTalk, Notes on Liberty, Washington Post
Stelios Michalopoulos, Melanie Meng Xue
Revision Requested
Recently presented at: HKU, King's College London, STRICTED, CEPR, CAGE, Southern Denmark, Bergen, Kellogg-Harvard PED Conference, Oslo, CIREQ PED Workshop, Harvard, ASREC, Nottingham, Berkeley Haas, Northwestern, Chicago Harris, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Bocconi, GWU, Simon Fraser, WEHC-The Impact of Religion on Economic Outcomes, UC San Diego, Deep-Rooted Factors in Comparative Development (Brown), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Toulouse IAST, New Economic School
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Media Coverage: Barron's, Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab
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