China's Great Leap Forward and Famine (1959-61)

Peer-reviewed articles

2019. E. Gooch. "Terrain ruggedness and political adventurims: identifying the deterministic role of state power in Mao's Great Leap Famine." Journal of Comparative Economics. 47(4): 827-52.

2017. E. Gooch. "Estimating the long-term impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-61) on Modern China. 89: 140-51. Paper

Popular press

2019. E. Gooch. "Famine within reach: how China’s landscape prevented even greater losses in the Great Famine." History Today. 69(11).

Works in progress

E. Gooch and S. Kim. "Estimating the economic legacy of China's Great Leap Forward Development Plan (1959-61)." Under review at World Development.