PUBLICATIONS “On the Road: Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China ” (with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo) (2018) NBER Working Paper 17897. Accepted at the Journal of Development Economics . “ Immigrants and the Making of America ” (with Nathan Nunn and Sandra Sequeira) Forthcoming at the Review of Economic Studies . NBER Working Paper 23289. “ Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China ” (with Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng and Xiaoxue Zhao) (2013) NBER Working Paper 19733. Journal of Comparative Economics , 47(3), September 2019, p. 579-600. “ Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Positive Effect of Family Size on School Enrollment in China ” (2017) Forthcoming in Gender and Development , UNU Wider Oxford University Press. “ Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Evidence from U.S. Immigrants ” with Benjamin Moll, David Lagakos, Tommaso Porzio and Todd Schoellman) (2017) Forthcoming in The Journal of Human Capital . NBER Working Paper 21914. “ Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media: Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights “(with David Yanagizawa-Drott) The Journal of European Economics Association , 15(2), 2017. “Life Cycle Wage Growth Across Countries” (with Benjamin Moll, David Lagakos, Tommaso Porzio and Todd Schoellman) Forthcoming in The Journal of Political Economy . NBER Working Paper 18602. “ The Institutional Causes of Famine in China, 1959-61 ” (with Xin Meng and Pierre Yared) The Review of Economic Studies, 82(4), 2015, p. 1568-1611. “ Making Progress on Foreign Aid ” The Annual Review of Economics , Vol 7, 2015 August, p. 277-308. “ U.S. Food Aid and Civil Conflict ” (with Nathan Nunn) The American Economic Review , 104(6), 2014 June, p. 1630-1666. “ More Missing Women, Fewer Dying Girls: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan ” (with Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu) The Journal of European Economic Association , 12(4), 2014 August, p. 899-926. Awarded as “The Excellent Research Paper” by the Taiwan Economic Association in 2018. “ The Impact of Potatoes on Old World Population and Urbanization ” (with Nathan Nunn), The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 126(2), May 2011, p. 593-650. Web Appendix . “ The Columbian Exchange: a Historical Change in Food, Disease and Ideas ” (with Nathan Nunn) The Journal of Economic Perspectives , 24(2), 2010 Spring, p. 163-188. “ The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War ” (with David Yanagizawa) The Journal of European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 7(2-3), 2009 May-June, p. 446-457. “ Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2010 ” (with Thomas Piketty) American Economic Journal – Applied Economics, 1(2), 2009 April, p. 53-63. “ Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Income on Sex Im-balance ,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 123(3), 2008 August, p.1251-1285. BOOK CHAPTERS “Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance,” China Labor Economics Vol. 3 , Beijing: China Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2007, pp. 3-28. (Chinese) “Village Governance in China”, The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China , Ch. 53, Oxford University Press, 2014 November. “T he Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World ,” (with Nathan Nunn) African Successes: Sustainable Growth , Vol. 4, University of Chicago Press, 2014 May. WORKING PAPERS “The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat’s Tradeoff ” with Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró-i-Miquel and Yang Yao (2017) NBER Working Paper 24032. Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Review . “ Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China ” (with Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao) (2017). Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of European Economic Review . “ Social Fragmentation, Elections and Public Goods: Evidence from China ” (with Gerard Pa-dro-i-Miquel and Yang Yao) (2012) NBER Working Paper w18633. Invited for resubmission at the Journal of Public Economics . “Winter is Coming: The Long-run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900” (with Murat Iyigun and Nathan Nunn) (2016) NBER Working Paper 23033. “ The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900” (with Murat Iyigun and Nathan Nunn) (2017) NBER Working Paper 24066 “ Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940 ” (with Ricardo Dahis and Emily Nix) “ Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services ” (with Erika Deserranno and Aisha Nansamba) “ Distrust and Political Turnover ” (with Nathan Nunn and Jaya Wen) (2017) NBER Working Paper 24184. “ The Dynamic Effects of Computerizing VAT Invoices on Chinese Manufacturing Firms ” (with Haichao Fan, Yu Liu and Jaya Wen) (2020) NBER Working Paper 24414 “ News Content in Government-Controlled Media " (with Zhao Chen, Georgy Egorov, Jing-bing Feng and Heyu Xiong) (2019) “ Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro data ” (with Abhijit Banerjee, Xin Meng and Tommaso Porzio) (2014) NBER Working Paper w20050. “ The Long-run Impact of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine 1959-61 ” (with Xin Meng) (2009) NBER Working Paper w14917. OLDER WORKING PAPERS “The Fluidity of Race: `Passing’ in the United States, 1880-1940 ” (with Emily Nix) (2015) NBER Working Paper 20828. “ Understanding the Influence of Government-Owned Media: Evidence from Air Pollution in China ” (with Jie Bai, Mikhail Golosov, Kai Yan) (2015) “T he Rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa ” with Erik Meyersson and Gerard Padro i Miquel (2008). SELECT WORKS IN PROGRESS “Missing Women in China” in preparation for the Journal of Economic Literature "Stress and In-Group Preferences: Evidence from a Lab-in-the Field Experiment" (with Johannes Haushauffer, Nathan Nunn and Sara Lowes) “The Social Contract and Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Black WWII Volunteer Enlistment” (with Marco Tabellini) “The Cultural Revolution and China’s Political Labor Market” (with Shuo Chen and Gerard Padro-i-Miquel) “Going Nuclear: Accidents, Democratic Accountability and Climate Change” (with Alexey Makarin) “Panem en Circenses?” (with Edoardo Teso) "The influence of social trust on patient medical behavior: Evidence from C-sections" (with Gabriella Santangelo and Jaya Wen) “The Power of Repetition: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China" (with Jie Bai and Donghee Jo)