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Publications

From Powerholders to Stakeholders: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China (joint with Joy Chen and Erik Wang) Conditionally accepted by American Journal of Political Science.

December, 2021

Hedging Desperation: How the Confucian Clan as an Internal Financial Market Reduced Cannibalism in Historical China  (joint with Zhiwu Chen and Zhan Lin) accepted by Journal of Comparative Economics

September, 2021

Working Papers

Discretion, Talent Allocation, and Governance Performance: Evidence from China’s Imperial Bureaucracy (joint with Kevin Zhengcheng Liu) R & R at Journal of Development Economy

December, 2021

Information Foundations of State Capacity: Evidence from the Imperial Bureaucracy of China. under review

December, 2023

Awakening Latent Human Capital: the Opening-up and Entrepreneurship in 19th-century China   (joint with DUAN Li) under review

December, 2023

Merit-based Recruitment and Government Performance: Evidence from Random Assignment of Administrators (joint with Kevin Zhengcheng Liu)

November, 2023

Work in progress

Task Complexity, Disciplinary Sanction and Dynamic Incentive Provision in Imperial Bureaucracy (joint with Zhiwu Chen, Jin Li, and Zhan Lin)

The Reach of the State (joint with Kevin Zhengcheng Liu)

From God to Father: the Ritual Reform of Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BCE) (joint with Yuqi Chen)

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