Working Papers
"High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China" Link
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Media Coverage: INET, Dissenter, Faculti, Aeon, Economics Detective, BBC Radio 4
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Selected Presentations: Chicago Booth, LSE, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Toulouse, SITE 2023, Barcelona GSE, BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference on Development Economics, , IZA/SOLETransatlantic Meeting for Labor Economics
"Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China" Link
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Media Coverage: VoxDev, ChinaEconTalk, Penn's Exchange, Lipton Matthews,
Quantitative History Blog, Washington Post
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Selected Presentations: Bonn, Chicago Harris, Yale, NBER Organizational Economics, NBER Summer Institute, Barcelona GSE
"The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China," with B. Zhang Link
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Selected Presentations: Notre Dame, Oxford, Penn, UCL, POLECONUK, NBER Economics of Culture and Institutions, BSE Summer Forum, Northwestern New Economic History of China Conference, ASSA 2017/2022
"Values of China: Towards a Cultural Map"
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Selected Presentations: AMSE, Helsinki GSE, PKU INSE, Harvard Workshop on Historical Kinship, Psychology, and Economic Prosperity, KCL Workshop in Comparative Politics and Political Economy, Oxford-Tsinghua Conference on Chinese Economic History from the Comparative Perspective
"Violence and Missing Women in China," with T. Sng and S. Zhong
New draft coming
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Selected Presentations: LSE China Research Day, India-China Workshop at PSE
Selected Work in Progress
"Women and Asylums" (draft coming soon)
"British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence From the Use of Proverbs," with E. Ash (draft coming soon)
"Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China," with X. Luo (first draft completed)
"History as Evolution: The Case of China"
“Raising Dragons,” with J. Nye.
Publications
"Folklore," with S. Michalopoulos
Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2021, 136 (4), 1993–2046.
Editor's Choice PDF Appendix Slides Data
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Media Coverage: Broadstreet, GrowthChat, Impactful Research, Policy Implications, Barron's, EnDevEcon, Boston Globe, Development Impact, LSE Economic History
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Selected Presentations: Bonn, LEAP, NES, Northwestern, Nottingham, Pompeu Fabra, Toulouse, WEHC 2018, ASREC 2019
Explorations in Economic History, 63 (2017): 44-69. PDF Slides
Book Reviews & Book Chapters
Book Review for "D. Ma and R. Von Glahn, The Cambridge Economic History of China. Volume II," Economic History Review, 76 (2023): 989-990. PDF
"Folklore," In: Kurtz, L.R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, vol. 4. Academic Press, 2022. PDF
Economic History Review, 73 (2020): 335-336. PDF