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Working Papers

2015

1. Fiscal Incentives and Policy Choices of Local Governments, Evidence from China
   HKUST IEMS Working Paper Series, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies View citations (99)
   See also Journal Article Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2015) View citations (111) (2015)

2012

2. Land Reallocations, Passive Land Rental, and the Development of Rental Markets in Rural China
   2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2019

1. Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134, (1), 185-226 View citations (18)

2018

2. Friends with Benefits: How Political Connections Help to Sustain Private Enterprise Growth in China
   Economica, 2018, 85, (337), 41-74 View citations (33)

2016

3. Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China
   Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 123, (C), 86-106 View citations (101)
4. Of maize and men: the effect of a New World crop on population and economic growth in China
   Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21, (1), 71-99 View citations (44)
   Also in Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21, (1), 71-99 (2016) View citations (44)

2015

5. DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE WHILE SPREADING GOD'S MESSAGE: PROTESTANTISM AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN CHINA, 1840–1920
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13, (4), 669-698 View citations (69)
6. Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China
   Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, (C), 89-104 View citations (111)
   See also Working Paper Fiscal Incentives and Policy Choices of Local Governments, Evidence from China, HKUST IEMS Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (99) (2015)

2014

7. Autarky and the Rise and Fall of Piracy in Ming China
   The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (2), 509-534 View citations (5)
8. Can cultural norms reduce conflicts? Confucianism and peasant rebellions in Qing China
   Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 111, (C), 132-149 View citations (67)
9. The Emperor Strikes Back: Political Status, Career Incentives and Grain Procurement during China's Great Leap Famine*
   Political Science Research and Methods, 2014, 2, (2), 179-211 View citations (3)
10. The shaping of an institutional choice: Weather shocks, the Great Leap Famine, and agricultural decollectivization in China
    Explorations in Economic History, 2014, 54, (C), 1-26 View citations (10)

2012

11. Inequality of land tenure and revolutionary outcome: An economic analysis of China's land reform of 1946–1952
    Explorations in Economic History, 2012, 49, (4), 482-497 View citations (1)

2011

12. Climate Shocks and Sino-nomadic Conflict
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93, (3), 970-981 View citations (60)
13. Commercialization as exogenous shocks: The effect of the soybean trade and migration in Manchurian villages, 1895–1934
    Explorations in Economic History, 2011, 48, (4), 568-589 View citations (4)
14. Genetic distance and income difference: Evidence from changes in China's cross-strait relations
    Economics Letters, 2011, 110, (3), 255-258 View citations (18)
15. Human capital, migration, and a ‘vent’ for surplus rural labour in 1930s China: the case of the Lower Yangzi
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (s1), 117-141 View citations (5)
    Also in Economic History Review, 2011, 64, 117-141 (2011) View citations (5)
16. Induced Institutional Change or Transaction Costs? The Economic Logic of Land Reallocations in Chinese Agriculture
    Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47, (10), 1510-1528 View citations (21)
17. The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine
    American Political Science Review, 2011, 105, (1), 27-45 View citations (63)

2007

18. The Decline of Township-and-Village Enterprises in China's Economic Transition
    World Development, 2007, 35, (4), 569-584 View citations (14)

2006

19. Do Secure Land Use Rights Reduce Fertility? The Case of Meitan County in China
    Land Economics, 2006, 82, (1), 36-55 View citations (7)

2003

20. The Causes of China's Great Leap Famine, 1959-1961
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2003, 52, (1), 51-73 View citations (18)

2002

21. Chapter 3. The Role of Property Rights in China's Rural Reforms and Development A Review of Facts and Issues
    Chinese Economy, 2002, 35, (3), 52-70 View citations (2)
22. Choice of Land Tenure in China: The Case of a Country with Quasi-Private Property Rights
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2002, 50, (4), 793-817 View citations (28)
23. Introduction: Transforming Rural China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30, (2), 325-328
24. Off-Farm Labor Markets and the Emergence of Land Rental Markets in Rural China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30, (2), 395-414 View citations (142)

2001

25. So What If There Is Income Inequality? The Distributive Consequence of Nonfarm Employment in Rural China
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2001, 50, (1), 19-46 View citations (45)

2000

26. Common Property Rights and Land Reallocations in Rural China: Evidence from a Village Survey
    World Development, 2000, 28, (4), 701-719 View citations (47)

1997

27. China's collectivisation puzzle: A new resolution
    Journal of Development Studies, 1997, 33, (6), 741-763 View citations (6)

1995

28. Equal Entitlement versus Tenure Security under a Regime of Collective Property Rights: Peasants' Preference for Institutions in Post-reform Chinese Agriculture
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1995, 21, (1), 82-111 View citations (50)

1994

29. Egalitarianism, subsistence provision, and work incentives in China's agricultural collectives
    World Development, 1994, 22, (2), 175-187 View citations (15)

1993

30. Transaction Costs and Peasants' Choice of Institutions: Did the Right to Exit Really Solve the Free Rider Problem in Chinese Collective Agriculture?
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (2), 485-503 View citations (7)