Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. With Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Mark Koyama, and Youhong Lin. Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
• Did the Communist State Contribute to China's Rural Growth? With Yi Lu and Mona Luan. Explorations in Economic History Volume 75, 101315, 2020.
• 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.

  (Working paper version)

• 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.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• The Size of Polities in Historical Political Economy. With Chiaki Moriguchi. Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (forthcoming).