Employment:
University of Colorado-Boulder, Professor of Economics, since 2007
Associate Professor, 2005-2007
University of Texas-Austin, Associate Professor, 2003-2005
Assistant Professor, 1998-2002
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor, 1995-1998
Education:
Yale University, 1995, Ph.D., Economics
University of Freiburg, 1990, Diploma (Valedictorian), Economics
Professional Affiliations and Impact:
NBER, Cambridge, MA, Research Associate
CEPR, London, Fellow
CESifo, Munich, Research Professor
Top 0.5% of authors in terms of weighted citations, RePec, Dec '23
National Science Foundation grants 2014-2021, 2011-2017, 2005-2011, 1999-2002
The Emerging Status-Health Gradient and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from China, December 2024 (with Karen N. Eggleston and Carol H. Shiue)
Co-location of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States, December 2024 (with Teresa Fort, Peter Schott, Stephen Yeaple, and Nikolas Zolas); National Science Foundation Award # 1360207
Elite Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming, NBER # 33121, November 2024 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Mobility through Marriage over Multiple Generations: Evidence from Imperial China, March 2024 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Mining Chinese Historical Sources At Scale: A Machine Learning-Approach to Qing State Capacity, CEPR # 19517, February 2024 (with Carol H. Shiue and Sen Yan)
Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting: New Evidence from Imperial China, NBER # 31695 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Intangible Assets, Multinational Firms, and the Evolution of Firm Heterogeneity, September 2023 (with Stephen R. Yeaple)
The Economic Consequences of the Opium War, February 2023 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Natural Language Processing of Chinese Historical Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach to Qing Protests, University of Colorado and Amazon Web Services AI, November 2022 (with Ling Liu and Carol H. Shiue)
Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China, NBER Working Paper # 30625, November 2022 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Future Technology Hubs or Backwater? Lessons on Structural Change from Germany’s Coal Regions (with Simon Janssen, Hale Utar, and Ehsan Vallizadeh), April 2021
Multinationals, Markets, and Mark-ups, July 2020 (with Stephen R. Yeaple)
Technology Diffusion and the World Distribution of Income, manuscript, 2002
Knowledge Spillovers at the World’s Technology Frontier, CEPR Discussions Paper # 2815
Bilateral Trade in a Multilateral World with Imperfect Specialization, manuscript, 1998
2025: Rockwool Foundation, University of Southern Denmark, CESifo Venice Roots of Economic Development Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Big Data Conference
2024: Purdue, International Monetary Fund, Harvard, Boston University, George Mason, Yale, NBER Culture and Institutions Conference, LACEA-RIDGE (Santiago), CEPR Economic History Symposium (Dublin), Cliometric Society, National University of Singapore, Keio University, Hitotsubashi U, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
2023: CEPR Paris Symposium, Regional Disparities and Economic Policy Seminar (Dortmund), Cornell, Georgia Tech, Cal Poly San Obispo, Hong Kong University, NBER Summer Institute, CEPR Economic History Symposium, Geneva, Hong Kong University China and the Global Economy conference, NBER Chinese Economy Spring conference
2022: LSE, Imperial College, University of London, CEPR Paris Symposium, International Macro History Seminar (online), CEPR-Manchester China in the Long Run Conference
2021: CEPR-Banco de Espana Economic History Workshop, NBER Chinese Economy Spring conference
2020: NBER Summer Institute Gender and the Economy, NBER Summer Institute International Trade and Investment, NBER Summer Institute Development of the American Economy
2019: LSE, U Munich, SciencesPo, IAB/U Nuremberg, UCL, Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference (NYU), CAED Conference (U Michigan), University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, CEPR ERWIT (London), Singapore Management University, Nankai University (Tianjin)
2018 Oslo, IAB Nuremberg, Kentucky, Copenhagen, Tsinghua-NBER Conference (Beijing), Princeton, IZA Conference (Columbia University), SUFE Macro (Shanghai), CEPR Economic History Symposium (Rome), Jinan University (Guangzhou), UIBE (Beijing), SUFE Trade (Shanghai), Hitotsubashi Summer Institute, RIETI (Tokyo), Hokkaido University
Graduate Courses: International Trade and Investment, Economic Development, Macroeconomics
Undergraduate Courses: International Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2002 to 2008
Germany, New Haven, Madison, Toronto, Providence, NYC, Austin, Washington DC, Palo Alto, Princeton, and Boulder