\"Elite Recruitment and Political Stability: The Impact of the Abolition of China\'s Civil Service Exam\" (with Ying Bai)
Econometrica, forthcoming. working paper version pdf
\"Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths\" (with Huihua Nie)
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. working paper version pdf
\"Political Selection in China: Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance\" (with Masa Kudamatsu and David Seim)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, vol. 13 (4), 631-668. working paper version pdf
VoxEU column: Who becomes a top politician in China?
\"Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China\"
Economic Journal, 2014, vol. 124, 92-118. working paper version pdf
\"The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China\'s Treaty Ports\"
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, 596-608. working paper version pdf
\"Decentralization and Military Coups\" (with Pinghan Liang) pdf
in Manas Chatterji (ed.) 2012, Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 20, 149-170.