Tuan-Hwee Sng 孙传炜
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Research interests: Economic History and Political Economy with a focus on East Asia
Research
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. With Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Mark Koyama, and Youhong Lin. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 138, Issue 2, 1173–1231, 2023.
The Size of Polities in Historical Political Economy. With Chiaki Moriguchi. In Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, 2022.
Did the Communist State Contribute to China’s Rural Growth? With Yi Lu and Mona Luan. Explorations in Economic History, Volume 75, 101315, 2020 (replication files).
Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan after 1850. With Mark Koyama and Chiaki Moriguchi. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 155, 178–204, 2018.
Are China’s Provincial Boundaries Misaligned? With Pei Zhi Chia, Chen-Chieh Feng, and Yi-Chen Wang. Applied Geography, Volume 98, 52–65, 2018.
Unified China and Divided Europe. With Chiu Yu Ko and Mark Koyama. International Economic Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, 285–327, 2018.
Asia’s Little Divergence: State Capacity in China and Japan before 1850. With Chiaki Moriguchi. Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 19, Issue 4, 439–470, 2014.
Size and Dynastic Decline: The Principal-Agent Problem in Late Imperial China 1700–1850. Explorations in Economic History, Volume 54, 107–127, 2014.
Regional Dependence and Political Centralization in Imperial China. With Chiu Yu Ko. Eurasian Geography and Economics, Volume 54, Issue 5–6, 470–483, 2013.