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Working Papers​

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"High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China", 2020    

Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies​​

• Media Coverage: INET, Dissenter, Faculti, Aeon, Economics Detective, BBC Radio 4

• First WP version  ASSA Discussion

• Selected Presentations:  Chicago Booth, LSE, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Toulouse  IAST,  Barcelona GSE, BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference on Development Economics, EHA, EHS, ASSA

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"Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China", 2021

Under Revision

• Media Coverage: VoxDev, ChinaEconTalk, Penn's Exchange, Lipton Matthews,

​Quantitative History Blog, Washington Post​​​​​

• Selected Presentations: Yale, Chicago Harris, Bonn, NBER Organizational Economics, NBER Summer Institute, Barcelona GSE, Life & Legacy of Douglass North, Oxford-Warwick-LSE Workshop in Economic History, Cliometric Society

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"The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China", 2023, with B. Zhang 

• Selected Presentations: UCL, Oxford, Notre Dame, POLECONUK (Video), BSE Summer Forum, STEG Workshop: Political Economy and Public Investment, EHA, EHS, WEHC, ASSA 2017/2022

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"Violence and Missing Women in China", 2020, with T. Sng and S. Zhong

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Selected Work in Progress​

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Women and Asylums ​

• Selected Presentations: LSE, Warwick, King's College London, St Andrews, Universidad Carlos III, HU Berlin, EHS, SSHA

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Publications

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"Folklore", with S. Michalopoulos                          

Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2021, 136 (4), 1993–2046.

Editor's Choice     Slides  Data  Appendix​

• ​Media Coverage: Broadstreet, GrowthChat,  Policy Implications, Barron's,

EnDevEcon, Boston Globe, Development Impact, LSE Economic History

• Selected Presentations: Toulouse, Pompeu Fabra, Nottingham, LEAP, WEHC 2018

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"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.      Slides

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Book Reviews & Book Chapters

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"Folklore". In: Kurtz, L.R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, vol. 4. Academic Press, 2022. 

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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.

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Older Working Papers​

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​"Raising Dragon", 2014, with J. V. C. Nye

Media Coverage: Freakonomics