My research covers various aspects of development economics,
including international trade, innovation and growth, economic history, and the economics of gender.
International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China, (with Kun Jiang, Larry Qiu, and William Ridley); Journal of International Economics Vol. 150 (July 2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103939 VOX column
International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level, (with Hâle Utar), Journal of International Economics, November 2023; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103810; VOX column
The gender gap among top business executives, (with Teresa Molina and William W. Olney), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 2023; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.04.017
Knowledge Spillovers, International Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment, 2022, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Globalization, Gender, and the Family, (with Hâle Utar); Review of Economic Studies, March 2022; https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac012 , also NBER # 25247, VOX column
Foreign Trade and Investment (with Carol H. Shiue), The Cambridge Economic History of China, 1800 to Present, Cambridge University Press, February 2022.
Capital Markets in China and England, 18th and 19th Century: Evidence from Grain Prices (with Carol H. Shiue and Xin Wang), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021.
International Transactions: Real Trade and Factor Flows (with Markus Lampe and Carol H. Shiue), The Cambridge Handbook of the Modern World, 1700-1870, Cambridge University Press, July 2021.
Globalization and Executive Compensation (with Will Olney), Journal of International Economics, March 2021.
Capital Markets and Grain Prices: Assessing the Storage Approach (with Carol H. Shiue and Xin Wang), Cliometrica, December 2019.
Market Integration and Institutional Change (with Carol H. Shiue), Review of World Economics, September 2019.
China's Domestic Trade During the Treaty Port Era (with Javier Andres Santiago and Carol H. Shiue), Explorations in Economic History, January 2017.
International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation? (with Nune Hovhannisyan), Journal of Economic Growth, March 2015.
Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion in Mexico (with Leo Iacovone, Beata Javorcik, and James Tybout), Journal of International Economics, January 2015.
Endogenous Formation of Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from the Zollverein's Impact on Market Integration (with Carol H. Shiue), Journal of Economic History, December 2014.
The Gravity of Knowledge (with Stephen R. Yeaple), American Economic Review, June 2013.
Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War (with Ben Li and Carol H. Shiue), IMF Economic Review, June 2013.
China’s Foreign Trade: Perspectives from the Past 150 Years (with Ben Li and Carol H. Shiue), The World Economy, June 2011.
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers, Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, Elsevier, North-Holland, 2010.
Technology Transfer through Imports (with Ram Acharya), Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009.
Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States (with Stephen R. Yeaple), Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2009.
Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers (with Beata Javorcik and James Tybout), The World Economy, December 2008.
Diffusion of Technology, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2008.
Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution (with Carol H. Shiue), American Economic Review, September 2007.
The Origins of Spatial Interaction (with Carol H. Shiue), Journal of Econometrics, September 2007.
Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison (with Carol H. Shiue), Review of Development Economics, January 2007.
International Technology Diffusion, Journal of Economic Literature, September 2004.
Convergence and Polarization in Global Income Levels: A Review of Recent Results on the Role of International Technology Diffusion (with Guan Gong), Research Policy, June 2003.
Pollution Abatement Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to the U.S. States (with Arik Levinson), Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2002.
On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation (with Simon Evenett), Journal of Political Economy, April 2002.
Trade and the Transmission of Technology, Journal of Economic Growth, March 2002.
Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion, American Economic Review, March 2002.
From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance, Journal of Development Economics, December 2000.
Do Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth?, World Bank Economic Review, January 2000.
Are International R&D Spillovers Trade-related? Analyzing Spillovers among Randomly Matched Trade Partners, European Economic Review, September 1998.
Technology Flows Between Industries: Identification and Productivity Effects, Economic Systems Research, 1997.
Absorptive Capacity: On the Creation and Acquisition of Technology in Development, Journal of Development Economics, April 1996.
Intangible Assets, Multinational Firms, and the Evolution of Firm Heterogeneity, January 2025 (with Stephen R. Yeaple)
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); based on National Science Foundation Award # 1360207
Text to Data: A Machine Learning Approach to Historical Chinese Documents, December 2024 (with Pan Chen, Carol H. Shiue, and Sen Yan)
Elite Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming, November 2024, CEPR # 19642 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Mobility through Marriage over Multiple Generations, March 2024 (with Carol H. Shiue)
Mining Chinese Historical Sources At Scale: A Machine Learning-Approach to Qing State Capacity, CEPR # 19517 (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)
Natural Language Processing of Chinese Historical Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach to Qing Protests, November 2022 (with Ling Liu and Carol H. Shiue)
Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China, NBER Working Paper # 30625, July 2023 (with Carol H. Shiue)
The Economic Consequences of the Opium War, February 2023 (with Carol H. Shiue); based on National Science Foundation Award # 1124426
Future Technology Hubs or Backwater? Lessons on Structural Change from Germany’s Coal Regions (with Simon Janssen, Hale Utar, and Ehsan Vallizadeh), April 2021
Retail Globalization and Nutrition Transition in Mexico, February 2021 (with Emilio Gutierrez, Beata Javorcik, Ricardo Miranda, Ken Teshima, and James Tybout)
Multinationals, Markets, and Mark-ups, July 2020 (with Stephen Yeaple)
International Business Travel, Sourcing, and Innovation, April 2019 (with Nune Hovhannisyan)