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Working Papers

2022

1. Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Resurgence of the SOEs in China:Evidence from the Real Estate Sector
   PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
2. Understanding the Resurgence of the SOEs in China: Evidence from the Real Estate Sector
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2020

3. Window Dressing in the Public Sector: A Case Study of China’s Compulsory Education Promotion Program
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2018

4. Arrival of Young Talents: The Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2020)
5. Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in BikeSharing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2021)
6. Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Platform Competition in Bike-Sharing
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (1)

2017

7. Real Estate Boom and Misallocation of Capital in China
   Working Papers, Princeton University. Economics Department. View citations (3)

2016

8. Information Distortion in Hierarchical Organizations: A Study of China’s Great Famine
   Working Papers, Princeton University. Economics Department.

2015

9. Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (75)
   See also Journal Article in NBER Macroeconomics Annual (2016)
   Chapter (2015)
10. Rosca Meets Formal Credit Market
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    Also in PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2015) View citations (2)

2014

11. The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2019)

2013

12. Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency: evidence from China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Corporate Finance (2017)
13. More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)

2010

14. Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from China
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
15. Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2013)

2009

16. Knowledge Spillovers from FDI in the People's Republic of China: The Role of Educated Labor in Multinational Enterprises
    ADBI Working Papers, Asian Development Bank Institute View citations (13)
17. Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
    PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania View citations (74)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009) View citations (75)

2007

18. Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2005

19. Ownership, Efficiency, and Firm Survival in Economic Transition: Evidence from a Chinese Science Park
    Discussion Papers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics View citations (2)
20. Relative Performance Evaluation and the Turnover of Provincial Leaders in China
    Discussion Papers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics View citations (162)
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2005)

2003

21. Political Turnover and Economic Performance: The Disciplinary Role of Personnel Control in China
    Discussion Papers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics View citations (17)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Does international travel cause economic growth? Evidence from China's removal of travel restrictions on foreigners
   Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30, (2), 337-355
2. Radical Target Setting and China’s Great Famine
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2022, 38, (1), 120-160
3. The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911
   The Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82, (3), 625-661

2021

4. Market‐expanding or Market‐stealing? Competition with network effects in bike‐sharing
   RAND Journal of Economics, 2021, 52, (4), 778-814 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2018)
5. Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2021, 70, (1), 283 - 320 View citations (1)

2020

6. Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (11), 3393-3430 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper (2018)
7. Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102, (5), 897-911 View citations (9)
8. Estimating returns to education in urban China: Evidence from a natural experiment in schooling reform
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48, (1), 218-233 View citations (1)
9. Farewell to the God of Plague: Estimating the effects of China's Universal Salt Iodization on educational outcomes
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48, (1), 20-36 View citations (1)

2019

10. Target Setting in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from China
    The Economic Journal, 2019, 129, (623), 2888-2915 View citations (25)
11. The gradients of power: Evidence from the Chinese housing market
    Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176, (C), 32-52 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2014)

2018

12. Bilateral trust and trade: Evidence from China
    The World Economy, 2018, 41, (8), 1918-1940 View citations (5)

2017

13. Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017, 65, (3), 495 - 520 View citations (6)
14. Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency: Evidence from China
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 2017, 42, (C), 460-480 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper (2013)

2016

15. Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom
    NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2016, 30, (1), 105 - 166 View citations (76)
    See also Working Paper (2015)
    Chapter (2015)
16. Executive Compensation and Legal Investor Protection: Evidence from China's Listed Firms
    Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20, (1), 39-47
17. Strategic interaction in political competition: Evidence from spatial effects across Chinese cities
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, (C), 23-37 View citations (62)

2015

18. The Effect of Microinsurance on Economic Activities: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97, (2), 287-300 View citations (49)

2014

19. Seller reputation: From word-of-mouth to centralized feedback
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2014, 34, (C), 51-65 View citations (12)

2013

20. Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, (3), 850-867 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

2010

21. FDI spillovers in an emerging market: the role of foreign firms' country origin diversity and domestic firms' absorptive capacity
    Strategic Management Journal, 2010, 31, (9), 969-989 View citations (125)
22. INCENTIVES, EQUALITY AND CONTRACT RENEGOTIATIONS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE CHINESE BANKING INDUSTRY*
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2010, 58, (1), 156-189 View citations (1)
23. Income and Consumption Inequality in Urban China: 1992-2003
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58, (3), 385-413 View citations (29)

2009

24. Government size, market-orientation and regional corruption: Evidence from the provincial level panel data
    Frontiers of Economics in China, 2009, 4, (3), 425-448 View citations (1)
    Also in Frontiers of Economics in China, 2009, 4, (3), 425-448 (2009) View citations (1)
25. Knowledge spillovers from FDI in China: The role of educated labor in multinational enterprises
    Journal of Asian Economics, 2009, 20, (6), 626-639 View citations (13)

2008

26. Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (2), 283-299 View citations (589)

2007

27. Incentive contracts and bank performance
    The Economics of Transition, 2007, 15, (1), 109-124 View citations (6)
28. The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China
    Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26, (4), 659-681 View citations (168)

2005

29. Parental childcare and children's educational attainment: evidence from China
    Applied Economics, 2005, 37, (18), 2067-2076 View citations (5)
30. Political turnover and economic performance: the incentive role of personnel control in China
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (9-10), 1743-1762 View citations (743)
31. Relative performance evaluation and the turnover of provincial leaders in China
    Economics Letters, 2005, 88, (3), 421-425 View citations (159)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2003

32. How Prudent are Community Representative Consumers?
    The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2003, 3, (1), 1-20 View citations (3)

Chapters

2015

1. Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom
   A chapter in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015, Volume 30, 2015, pp 105-166 View citations (72)
   See also Journal Article in NBER Macroeconomics Annual (2016)
   Working Paper (2015)

2012

2. Political Competition at a Multilayer Hierarchy: Evidence from China
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)