Main Positions
2017 - Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
2013-2014 Stanford University, Hoover National Fellow and Visiting Professor
2012 - Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Fellow
2010-2011 Princeton University, Visiting Professor
2005- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Research Economist
2002-2003 The Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar
1999-2005 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Major Grants
2011-2016 National Science Foundation, "Trading, Institutions, Product Innovation, and Entrepreneurship", $ 684,941, SES-1124426
2005-2008 National Science Foundation, "What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from a Comparison of China and Europe in the 18th Century", SES-0453040, $ 266,183
2002-2004 National Institutes of Health, "Intergenerational and Interfamily Economic Links", NICHD R03, $ 149,750
Select Publications
"Social Mobility in the Long Run: A Temporal Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900", forthcoming, Journal of Economic History
"Foreign Trade and Investment", in The Cambridge History of China, Part I (1800 to 1950), Ma and von Glahn (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2022 (with Wolfgang Keller)
"Capital Markets in China and England in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Evidence from Grain Prices", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 (with Wolfgang Keller and Xin Wang)
"Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans Before Modern Growth", Journal of Economic Growth, 2017
"A Culture of Kinship: Chinese Genealogies as a Source for Research In Demographic Economics", Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016
"The Endogenous Formation of Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from the Zollverein's Impact on Market Integration", Journal of Economic History, 2014 (with Wolfgang Keller)
"China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives from the Last 150 Years", The World Economy, 2011 (with Ben Li and Wolfgang Keller)
"Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution", American Economic Review, 2007 (with Wolfgang Keller)
"The Origins of Spatial Interaction", Journal of Econometrics, 2007 (with Wolfgang Keller)
"The Political Economy of Famine Relief in China, 1740-1820", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2005
"Transport Costs and the Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth Century China", American Economic Review, 2002