Research

Publications:

 “Land Tenure Reforms, Entrepreneurial Talent Allocation, and Structural Change: Evidence from 20th-Century China”(with Shouying Liu and Gewei Wang), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2026, 74(2): 639-682. doi.org/10.1086/736914 

 “The Educational and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Exposure to Rural Land Decollectivization in China” (with Zhi-an Hu, Wei Huang, Wei Luo and Chuanchuan Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 228:106771. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106771 

 “Women’s Political Status and the Sex Ratio at Birth: Empirical Evidence from County-Level Data, 1950-2000” (with Yang Yao), Chinese Social Sciences (in Chinese), 2020, Issue 4: 66-89.【 “女性的政治地位与出生人口性别比——基于1950-2000年县级数据的实证研究”（和姚洋），《中国社会科学》，2020年第4期：66-89页。】

•     Second Prize, Beijing 16th Outstanding Achievement Awards in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2021)

 “Revisiting Regional Differences in the Industrial Transformation of Jiangsu Province, 1952-2003” (with Feiyue Li, Qi Zhang and Mingxing Liu), Twenty-First Century (in Chinese), August 2019, Issue 174: 48-66; October 2019, Issue 175: 106-119.【“江苏省工业转型区域差异的再反思，1952-2003”（和李飞跃、章奇、刘明兴），《二十一世纪》，2019年8月号，第174期：48-66页；2019年10月号，第175期：106-119页。】

 “Women’s Political Participation and Gender Gaps of Education in China: 1950-1990”(with Yang Yao), World Development, 2018, 106: 220-237. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.004 

Working Papers:

“Grassroots Mobilization, Social Conflict, and Tenure of County Leaders: Evidence from two Provinces in China (1955-1976)” (with Mingxing Liu and Qi Zhang), China Quarterly, revise and resubmit, 2025.

“The Paradox of State-Building: Tuition-Free Teachers' Schools and Communist Revolution in Republican China” (with Ningning Ma), 2025. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6016714

•    First Prize, 9th “Best Paper Award in Quantitative Historical Research” (2025)

“Recruiting the loyal agent: Land Reform as a Party-Building Strategy in Post-Revolutionary China”, (with Yu Hao, Ningning Ma and Tianyang Xi), 2025.

“Society Triumphed the State: Social Embeddedness and Indigenous Officials’ Resistance to Radicalism during China’s Great Famine”(with Zhi-an Hu and Yang Yao), 2025.

 “地方干部分布和公共品提供：江苏1966-1998县级教育发展的经验证据”（和章齐，张冬， 刘明兴），2020年。