Working Papers
"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: INET, Dissenter, Faculti, Aeon, Economics Detective, BBC Radio 4
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Selected Presentations: Chicago Booth, LSE, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Toulouse IAST, Barcelona GSE, BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference on Development Economics, EHA, EHS, ASSA
"Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China", 2021
Under Revision
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Media Coverage: VoxDev, ChinaEconTalk, Penn's Exchange, Lipton Matthews,
Quantitative History Blog, Washington Post
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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
"The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China", 2023, with B. Zhang
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Selected Presentations: UCL, Oxford, Notre Dame, POLECONUK (Video), BSE Summer Forum, STEG Workshop: Political Economy and Public Investment, EHA, EHS, WEHC, ASSA 2017/2022
"Violence and Missing Women in China", 2020, with T. Sng and S. Zhong
Selected Work in Progress
Women and Asylums
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Selected Presentations: LSE, Warwick, King's College London, St Andrews, Universidad Carlos III, HU Berlin, EHS, SSHA
Publications
"Folklore", with S. Michalopoulos
Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2021, 136 (4), 1993–2046.
Editor's Choice Slides Data Appendix
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Media Coverage: Broadstreet, GrowthChat, Policy Implications, Barron's,
EnDevEcon, Boston Globe, Development Impact, LSE Economic History
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Selected Presentations: Toulouse, Pompeu Fabra, Nottingham, LEAP, WEHC 2018
"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
Book Reviews & Book Chapters
"Folklore". In: Kurtz, L.R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, vol. 4. Academic Press, 2022.
Economic History Review, 73 (2020): 335-336.
Older Working Papers
"Raising Dragon", 2014, with J. V. C. Nye
Media Coverage: Freakonomics