Biography:
I am an assistant professor of economics (2020- ) at Xiamen University. I earned a Ph.D. in management (2020) from Renmin University of China, and a B.A. in finance and a B.S. in mathematics (2014) from Southwest University. I was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University (2018-2019) and Nanyang Technological University (2017-2018). I am a research associate at China Finance 40 Forum and Shanghai Institute for National Economy and a virtual young scholar of Global Labor Organization (GLO).
My research interests are in the fields of development economics (with a regional focus on rural China), political economy, economic history, and law and economics. I was deeply attracted to the Neoinstitutional Economics, a passion that led me to use (theory-based) causal inference methods to studying a variety of topics ranging from: misallocation of land and labor, entrepreneurship and innovation, comparative analysis of culture and institutions, government organizational designs and policy designs, etc.
Please feel free to drop me an email: [email protected]
I am an assistant professor of economics (2020- ) at Xiamen University. I earned a Ph.D. in management (2020) from Renmin University of China, and a B.A. in finance and a B.S. in mathematics (2014) from Southwest University. I was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University (2018-2019) and Nanyang Technological University (2017-2018). I am a research associate at China Finance 40 Forum and Shanghai Institute for National Economy and a virtual young scholar of Global Labor Organization (GLO).
My research interests are in the fields of development economics (with a regional focus on rural China), political economy, economic history, and law and economics. I was deeply attracted to the Neoinstitutional Economics, a passion that led me to use (theory-based) causal inference methods to studying a variety of topics ranging from: misallocation of land and labor, entrepreneurship and innovation, comparative analysis of culture and institutions, government organizational designs and policy designs, etc.
Please feel free to drop me an email: [email protected]
Publications:
Cooperative Culture and the Birth of Modern Enterprises in China: Evidence from the Signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (w/ Y. Cai)
European Economic Review, 2024
Property Rights and Land Quality (w/ H. Li)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024
Land Titling, Human Capital Misallocation, and Agricultural Productivity in China (w/ S. Liu, S. Ma, & L. Yin)
Journal of Development Economics, 2023
The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China (w/ S. Jin, Z. Tang, & A. Titus)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022
Removing the "Hats of Poverty": Effects of Ending the National Poverty Program on Fiscal Expenditures (w/ S. Liu & Y. Li)
China Economic Review, 2021, Invited Submission (Special Issue on China’s Anti-poverty Experience)
The Agricultural Roots of Chinese Innovation Performance (w/ J. Ang, & P. Fredriksson)
European Economic Review, 2019
Other Writings (in Chinese):
Elite Capture of Agricultural Credit Market (w/ T. Wen & X. Wang)
Economic Research Jounal (in Chinese), 2016
Understanding the Value of Cooperative Membership (w/ T. Wen, X. Wang, & D. Yang)
Management World (in Chinese), 2015
Publications:
Cooperative Culture and the Birth of Modern Enterprises in China: Evidence from the Signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (w/ Y. Cai)
European Economic Review, 2024
Property Rights and Land Quality (w/ H. Li)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024
Land Titling, Human Capital Misallocation, and Agricultural Productivity in China (w/ S. Liu, S. Ma, & L. Yin)
Journal of Development Economics, 2023
The Effect of Pension Income on Land Transfers: Evidence from Rural China (w/ S. Jin, Z. Tang, & A. Titus)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022
Removing the "Hats of Poverty": Effects of Ending the National Poverty Program on Fiscal Expenditures (w/ S. Liu & Y. Li)
China Economic Review, 2021, Invited Submission (Special Issue on China’s Anti-poverty Experience)
The Agricultural Roots of Chinese Innovation Performance (w/ J. Ang, & P. Fredriksson)
European Economic Review, 2019
Other Writings (in Chinese):
Elite Capture of Agricultural Credit Market (w/ T. Wen & X. Wang)
Economic Research Jounal (in Chinese), 2016
Understanding the Value of Cooperative Membership (w/ T. Wen, X. Wang, & D. Yang)
Management World (in Chinese), 2015