Working Papers
"Folklore", with S. Michalopoulos
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
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Media Coverage: Barron's, Broadstreet, Boston Globe, Development Impact, EnDevEcon, GrowthChat, Policy Implications
"High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China", 2020
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
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Media Coverage: Aeon, BBC Radio 4, Dissenter, Economics Detective
"Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China", 2020
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Media Coverage: ChinaEconTalk, Quantitative History Blog, Washington Post
Work in Progress
Women and Asylums
Extreme Poverty and a Culture of Violence
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China, with B. Zhang
Publications
"Friends from Afar: The Taiping Rebellion, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in the Lower Yangzi,1850-1949", with Y. Hao
Explorations in Economic History 63 (2017): 44-69.
Book Reviews
Book Review for "M. Tanimoto and R. B. Wong, Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe"
Economic History Review 73 (2020): 335-336.
Older Working Papers
"Raising Dragon", 2014, with J. V. C. Nye
- Media Coverage: Freakonomics