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- The great Chinese inequality turnaround. Journal of Comparative Economics. 2020
- The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes: the case of China. Journal of Population Economics. 33:1263-1302. 2020
- Living like there’s no tomorrow: The psychological effects of an earthquake on savings and spending behavior. European Economic Review. 116:107-128. 2019
- It’s All in the Stars: The Chinese Zodiac and the Effects of Parental Investments on Offspring’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Development 2019
- Value-chain clusters and aquaculture innovation in Bangladesh. Food Policy. 83:310-326. 2019
- Forced gifts: The burden of being a friend. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 155:79-98. 2018
- The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115:9193-9197. 2018
- Post-disaster aid and development of the manufacturing sector: Lessons from a natural experiment in China. European Economic Review. 101:441-458. 2018
- Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from People's Republic of China (PRC). China Economic Review. 49:154-170. 2018
- The “quiet revolution” in the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh. Aquaculture. 493:456-468. 2018
- Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 85:81-94. 2017
- Home ownership as status competition: Some theory and evidence ☆. Journal of Development Economics. 127:169-186. 2017
- Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China. Ecological Economics. 137:29-36. 2017
- Rural livelihoods in Mon State: Evidence from a representative household survey 2017
- Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China 2017
- Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance 2017
- From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 31:49-70. 2017
- Forced gifts: The burden of being a friend 2017
- Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture. China Economic Review. 43:184-195. 2017
- Smog in our brains: Gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance in China 2017
- The Dark Side of Competition: Gender Differences 2016
- Have Chinese Firms Become Smaller? If So, Why? 2016
- Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China: 2016
- Does Female Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?: Evidence from China's Gender Imbalance 2016
- Policy: Social-progress panel seeks public comment. Nature. 534:616-617. 2016
- Neighbour Effects in the Provision of Public Goods in a Young Democracy: Evidence from China. Pacific Economic Review. 21:13-31. 2016
- Building effective clusters and industrial parks 2016
- Low-Quality Crisis and Quality Improvement: The Case of Industrial Clusters in Zhejiang Province 2016
- The Competitive Saving Motive: Concept, Evidence, and Implications. Frontiers of Economics in China. 11:355-366. 2016
- The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural China. World Development. 77:1-16. 2016
- The Competitive Saving Motive: Concept, Evidence, and Implications. Frontiers of Economics in China. 11:355-366. 2015
- A proximity-based measure of industrial clustering: 2015
- Does rice farming shape individualism and innovation. Food Policy. 56:51-58. 2015
- Living Like There’s No Tomorrow: Saving and Spending Following the Sichuan Earthquake 2015
- Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being? 2015
- Mating competition and entrepreneurship. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 116:292-309. 2015
- The Patterns of Patents in China. China Economic Journal. 8:122-142. 2015
- India’s Struggle Against Malnutrition—Is the ICDS Program the Answer?. World Development. 67:72-89. 2015
- Gender and public goods provision in Tamil Nadu's village governments. The World Bank Economic Review. 29:1-261. 2015
- Short-term trends in China's income inequality and poverty: evidence from a longitudinal household survey. China Economic Journal. 8:235-251. 2015
- Does Rice Farming Shape Individualism and Innovation? A Response to Talhelm et al. (2014) 2014
- Are poverty rates underestimated in China? New evidence from four recent surveys. China Economic Review. 31:410-425. 2014
- Escalation of Real Wages in Bangladesh: Is it the Beginning of Structural Transformation?. World Development. 64:273-285. 2014
- Overcoming Successive Bottlenecks: The Evolution of a Potato Cluster in China. World Development. 63:102-112. 2014
- “Flying geese” in China: The textile and apparel industry's pattern of migration. Journal of Asian Economics. 34:79-91. 2014
- Do elected leaders in a limited democracy have real power? Evidence from rural China. Journal of Development Economics. 107:17-27. 2014
- Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia. Small Business Economics. 43:697-709. 2014
- Agriculture and cognitive development - Evidence from Chinese agricultural reform. China Economic Quarterly. 1. 2014
- Industrial diversification in China. China Journal of Economics. 2014(2). 2014
- The patterns of patents in China 2014
- The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2013
- The Rapid Rise of Cross-Regional Agricultural Mechanization Services in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 95:1245-1251. 2013
- An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys 2013
- Mating Competition and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan 2013
- Genome-wide association analysis for nine agronomic traits in maize under well-watered and water-stressed conditions. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 126:2587-2596. 2013
- The Logic of Adaptive Sequential Experimentation in Policy Design 2013
- Rising wages in Bangladesh 2013
- Chinese model of agricultural mechanization [in Chinese], 农业机械化的中国模式. New Industrial Economy [新产经]. 2013(01). 2013
- Clusters as an Instrument for Industrial Policy: The Case of China 2013
- Has the "flying geese" paradigm occurred in China. China Economist. Book chapter: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/3633. 2013
- Patterns of China's industrialization: Concentration, specialization, and clustering. China Economic Review. 23:593-612. 2012
- Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy. Journal of Comparative Economics. 40:476-491. 2012
- Credit constraints, clustering, and profitability among Chinese firms. Strategic Change. 21:159-178. 2012
- Status Competition and Housing Prices. National Bureau of Economic Research. vol. null. 2012
- Agricultural Extension, Transactions Costs, and Supply Response: Discussion. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 94:393-394. 2012
- Costly posturing: relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China 2012
- Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China? 2012
- Road condition in Southwestern mountainous areas and Households' food availability, Based on the analysis of Guizhou household Survey [in Chinese]. Issues in Agricultural Economy. 2012
- The road to specialization in agricultural production : Evidence from rural China 2012
- China has reached the Lewis turning point. China Economic Review. 22:542-554. 2011
- Infrastructure and Cluster Development: A Case Study of Handloom Weavers in Rural Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies. 47:1869-1886. 2011
- Positional spending and status seeking in rural China. Journal of Development Economics. 96:139-149. 2011
- Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance. Journal of International Economics. 84:112-123. 2011
- Estimating the impact of rural investments in Nepal. Food Policy. 36:250-258. 2011
- China's One-Child Policy and the Mystery of Missing Women: Ethnic Minorities and Male-Biased Sex Ratios. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 73:21-39. 2011
- Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China. National Bureau of Economic Research. 16800. 2011
- China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy. Review of Development Finance. 1:47-56. 2011
- Overcoming successive bottlenecks, The evolution of a potato cluster in China 2011
- The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China. JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. 119:511-564. 2011
- The role of elected and appointed village leaders in the allocation of public resources, Evidence from a low-income region in China 2011
- Why does the Great Chinese Famine affect the male and female survivors differently? Mortality selection versus son preference.. Economics and Human Biology. 9:92-105. 2011
- Inequality in the Ethnic Direct Transition Rural Areas of China: From Survey Data of Households in Yunnan 2010
- The evolution of an industrial cluster in China. China Economic Review. 21:456-469. 2010
- China has reached the Lewis turning point 2010
- Neighbor effects in the provision of public goods in a young democracy: Evidence from China 2010
- Positional spending and status seeking in rural China 2010
- Community poverty and inequality in western China: A tale of three villages in Guizhou Province☆. China Economic Review. 20:338-349. 2009
- The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2009
- Finance and cluster - Based industrial development in China. Economic Development and Cultural Change. vol. 58. 2009
- Has China reached the Lewis turning point, Evidence from poor regions. Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences). 2009
- Infrastructure and cluster development, A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia 2009
- Rethinking China's underurbanization, An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy 2009
- The role of clustering in rural industrialization: A case study of the footwear industry in Wenzhou. China Economic Review. 19:409-420. 2008
- Impact of famine during pregnancy and infancy on health in adulthood.. Obesity Reviews. 9:95-99. 2008
- Finance and cluster-based industrial development in China 2008
- Gender, caste, and public goods provision in Indian village governments 2008
- Inequality in western rural China, A household analysis in Guizhou province [in Chinese] 2008
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan, Summary and Main objectives.. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW-REVUE AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPPEMENT. 20:466-496. 2008
- Resource Abundance and Regional Development in China. Economics of Transition. 16:7-29. 2008
- Symposium on Market Development and Inequality in China. Economics of Transition. 16:1-5. 2008
- Symposium on Market development and inequality in China. Economics of Transition. 16:1-5. 2008
- The cluster-based putting-out system and entrepreneurship (Jiyu Chanyie Jiqun de Baoshangzhi yu Qiyejia Caineng) 2008
- Rural Industrialization in China and India: Role of Policies and Institutions. World Development. 35:1621-1634. 2007
- Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets 2007
- Is the Relationship Between Aid and Economic Growth Nonlinear. Journal of Macroeconomics. 29:515-540. 2007
- Assymetric property rights in China's economic growth 2007
- Incremental reform and distortions in China's product and factor markets. The World Bank Economic Review. 21:279-299. 2007
- Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality. Journal of Comparative Economics. 34:713-726. 2006
- Famine and Overweight in China. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 28:296-304. 2006
- A perspective in analyzing rural residents' income gap: investigation of the returns of entrepreneurs [In Chinese] 2006
- Agricultural R&D and urban poverty 2006
- Asymmetric Property Rights in China's Economic Growth. William Mitchell law review. 28:3. 2006
- China: an unfinished reform agenda 2006
- Moving up and moving down, a new way of examining country growth dynamics 2006
- Rural industrialization in China and India: role of policies and institutions [In Chinese] 2006
- Spatial Inequality in Education and Health Care in China. China Economic Review. 16:189-204. 2005
- Rural Nonfarm Development in China and India: The Role of Policies and Institutions 2005
- Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness. Review of Development Economics. 9:87-106. 2005
- Blunt to sharpened razor: incremental reform and distortions in the product and capital markets in China, [In Chinese] 2005
- China, Economic Development and Mortality Decline. World Development. 33:21-41. 2005
- Introduction: Growing Inequality in China. Journal of The Asia Pacific Economy. 10:405-407. 2005
- Land rights and entitlement trading [In Chinese] 2005
- Rural non-farm development in China and India, the role of policies and institutions 2005
- Local governance and public goods provision in rural China. Journal of Public Economics. 88:2857-2871. 2004
- SPATIAL PATTERNS OF CROP YIELDS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Cuadernos de Economía. 124:361-381. 2004
- Industrialization, urbanization and land use in China. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 2:207-224. 2004
- BLUNT TO SHARPENED RAZOR: INCREMENTAL REFORM AND DISTORTIONS IN THE PRODUCT AND CAPITAL MARKETS IN CHINA 2004
- How Productive Is Infrastructure? A New Approach and Evidence from Rural India. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86:492-501. 2004
- Public investment and regional inequality in rural China. Agricultural Economics. 30:89-100. 2004
- Cross-country typologies and development strategies to end hunger in Africa 2004
- How productive is infrastructure? new approach and evidence from rural India 2004
- Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China. China Economic Review. 15:203-214. 2004
- Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda 2004
- Reform and transformation of rents, [In Chinese] 2004
- Reforms, investment, and poverty in rural China. Economic Development and Cultural Change. vol. 52. 2004
- Does guanxi matter to nonfarm employment. Journal of Comparative Economics. 31:315-331. 2003
- Structural Change and Economic Growth in China. Review of Development Economics. 7:360-377. 2003
- China's WTO accession: impacts on regional agricultural income-- a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis. Journal of Comparative Economics. 31:332-351. 2003
- Agricultural Research and Urban Poverty: The Case of China. World Development. 31:733-741. 2003
- How does globalisation affect regional inequality within a developing country? Evidence from China. Journal of Development Studies. 39:47-67. 2003
- Local governance and public goods provision in rural China. China Economic Quarterly. Journal article http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll5/id/1765. 2003
- Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household survey☆. China Economic Review. 13:430-443. 2002
- THE PATH OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: WHICH NEIGHBORS TO LEARN FROM?. Contemporary Economic Policy. 20:470-478. 2002
- Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household surveys 2002
- Growth and poverty effects of government spending in rural China [in Chinese] 2002
- Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2002
- Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [In Chinese] 2002
- How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions, a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis 2002
- Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: New national and regional measures. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 50:819-838. 2002
- Structural Change and Economic Growth in China [in Chinese] 2002
- FIFTY YEARS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA: A JOURNEY THROUGH REVOLUTION, REFORM AND OPENNESS 2001
- Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 83:378-388. 2001
- How agricultural research affects urban poverty in developing countries, the case of China 2001
- How does public spending affect growth and poverty in China? 2001
- How productive is infrastructure?, new approach and evidence from rural India 2001
- The demand for food grain in China: new insights into a controversy 2001
- What difference do polarisation measures make? An application to China. Journal of Development Studies. 37:85-98. 2001
- Growth and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2000
- Public investment and regional inequality in rural China. 2000
- Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995☆. Journal of Comparative Economics. 27:686-701. 1999
- Past and future sources of growth for China 1999
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- Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture 2015
- Road to specialization in agricultural production, Evidence from Rural China 2012
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- Rising inequality in China. Journal of Comparative Economics. 34:651-653. 2006
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- [Review of] Teho S. Eicher and Stephen J. Turnovsky (eds.). Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications Tokyo, New York, and Paris: United Nations University Press, 2003 and Rolph van der Hoeven and Anthony Shorrocks (eds.) Pespective on Growth and Poverty. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000 2005
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