Research

Peng, Linan, and Benjamin Powell. “Sweatshop Boycotts: Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them” Business Ethics Quarterly, forthcoming.
Geloso, Vincent, and Linan Peng. "Postbellum Electoral Politics in California and the Genesis of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882." European Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming
Peng, Linan, and Justin T. Callais. “The Authoritarian Trade‐off: A Synthetic Control Analysis of Development and Social Coercion in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.” Contemporary Economic Policy 41, no. 2 (2023): 370–87.
Callais, Justin, and Linan Peng. “Impact of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from a Multiple Synthetic Control Analysis of the Northeastern Revitalization Program in China.” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, forthcoming
Peng, Linan. “The Political Economy of the Anti-Chinese Movement in California in the 19th Century.” Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy 5, no. 1 (2022): 13-24.
Peng, Linan. “The Last Guardian of the Throne: the Regional Army in the Late Qing Dynasty.” Journal of Institutional Economics 17, no. 2 (2021): 321–37.
Devereaux, Abigail, and Linan Peng. “Give Us a Little Social Credit: to Design or to Discover Personal Ratings in the Era of Big Data.” Journal of Institutional Economics 16, no. 3 (2020): 369–87.
- Awarded the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Prize for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics

The Impact of City-County Merger: Evidence from Sichuan Province (with Justin Callais)
Governing the Communes (with Adam Martin)
Repression and International Trade: An Analysis of Chinese Trade Volume with Islamic Countries (with Justin Callais and Greg Caskey)