My research interests lie at the intersection of economic history, development economics, and macroeconomics. In my dissertation and ongoing research projects, I am putting together the data of prices and wages in modern and pre-modern China to study the changes in the real wages and wage inequality in those eras. With these empirical findings, I am studying, from theoretical perspectives, the factors driving the changes in real wages and wage inequality, such as factor-biased technological changes, economic openness and globalization, and educational investments. While mainly focusing on historical or long-run economic issues, I also have strong interests in contemporary economic issues and policies in China as well as in other developing economies. For my papers and ongoing projects, please click here.

        It is very important for economic historians to build first-hand data sets to uncover long-run economic patterns. In my research I have been making great efforts in building such new data sets to advance people's knowledge on Chinese economic history. I am happy to share these data sets with interested scholars. For these data sets, please click here.

        I have been recently invited to give talks at various universities and conferences, such as Harvard Business School, University of Colorado at Boulder, HKUST, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the World Economic History Congress, American Economic History Association and the Cliometrics Conference. For my travel schedule, please click here.

        I have also received various research grants and dissertation fellowships, such as the US National Science Foundation (Grant SES-0433358) and China National Social Science Foundation (Grant 09CJL009). For a list of the research grants I recently received, please click here.

Working Papers

1. "Real Wages and Skill Premia in China, 1858-1936, Evidence from the China Maritime Customs Archives." [download PDF]

Awarded the Best Dissertation Prize at the XVth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 2009

the Gerschenkron Prize finalist at the 2009 Economic History Association Meetings, Tucson 2009

2. "Globalization, Trade & Wages: What Does History tell us about China?" with Kris Mitchener. [download PDF]

3. "Why Do Large Firms Pay Higher Wages in Developing Countries", with Hongbin Cai and Miaojun Wang. [download PDF]

Publications

1. "The Price and Consumption of Salt in China in 1901", with Patrick Hase, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society. [download PDF]

Under Construction

Forthcoming

1. The 2010 ASSA/AEA annual meeting, Atlanta, January 2010

In the past (selected)

1. the 2009 Economic History Association annual meeting, Tucson Arizona, September 2009

2. the XVth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 2009China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing, May 2009

3. Shanghai University of Economics and Finance, Shanghai, April 2009

4. ASSA/AEA meeting, San Francisco, January 2009

5. School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 2008

6. China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, November 2008

7 . "Understanding Long Run Economic Growth: A Conference Honoring the Contributions of Kenneth Sokoloff", UCLA, November 2008

8. the 2008 Economic History Association annual meeting, New Haven, September 2008

9. Department of Economics, HKUST, Hong Kong, February 2008

10. Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 2008

11. the Social Science Division, HKUST, Hong Kong, January 2008

12. Queens College, CUNY, New York City, January 2008

13. Harvard Business School, Cambridge, January 2008

14. University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2007

15. the 2007 EHA annual meeting, Austin, September 2007

I believe that the ultimate goal of teaching is to motivate my students to be critical thinkers and to equip them with the ability to identify and solve problems on their own. In order to attain this goal of teaching, I think the following five elements are critical:

        1. Understanding and fulfilling the diverse expectations of my students.

        Students who take economics courses come from heterogeneous backgrounds. I always attempt to recognize the different backgrounds and goals of the students, and design courses to accommodate these differences. This is the first step toward successful teaching.

        2. Conduct and keep up to date with frontier research

        One critical element of successful teaching is to keep up-to-date in the new research on the subject at hand. In this way, I can both convey the latest discoveries and describe the process of obtaining them. Economics research offers good examples of how to identify and solve problems with the analytical tools taught in economics courses. Conducting frontier research and integrating the research with teaching is an effective way to empower students to be self-motivated problem-solvers.

        3. Have fun in teaching and learning

        Students learn best when they enjoy the classroom environment. To make technical material entertaining, I present rich real-life examples. For example, in teaching a course such as macroeconomic theory, I am careful not to approach learning as a robotic and monotonous process in which I distill knowledge of models, formulas and results, allow students to digest the knowledge, and then have them regurgitate this information during test time. Instead, I combine the economic theories with many examples of the applications to macroeconomic policy making. I maintain an open-door policy and offer assistance my students, whom I try to know on a first-name basis. In my experience, this feat is invaluable to my students and makes them feel special.

        4. Instill the "economic" way of thinking

        Because most students will not become practicing economists, the main goal of my teaching is not to teach specific knowledge (e.g., theorems, proofs) but to instill a general "economic" way of thinking about human behavior and human society. I encourage students to understand the methodologies and philosophies behind economic theories and to carry such understandings in their everyday practicalities.

        5. Teach students to think both independently and originally

        In my teaching, I encourage students to understand that, ultimately, they are responsible for their own education. I emphasize that their graduation is truly just a commencement of the educational process. Most of their learning lies ahead; the world is changing faster and faster with information growing at an exponential rate. Their minds must be flexible and open to new ideas. To do so, I incorporate the up-to-date economic theories and policies into my classes and stimulate open-floor discussions. I also encourage independent and original thinking by having open-end essay questions in homeworks and exams.

        I never think that teaching is an obligation or a burden. I always regard myself as an economist and an economics teacher simultaneously. I feel that teaching and research are complementary to each other. As an economist, I am often thrilled by the process of identifying and solving economic puzzles. As an economics teacher, I have a zest for conveying these thrills to my students. As a teacher of economics, I will be well satisfied if my students successfully learn to think like economists and can apply that paradigm to tackle the problems either in theory or in the real world.

International Finance 2009

Under Construction

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2009

PRESENTATION LIST [download PDF]

SYLLABUS [download PDF]

LECTURE 1 [download slides]

Big view of economic history: East versus West

LECTURE 2 [download slides]

Facts about the Industrial Revolution

FOR LECTURING

C. Knick Harley, "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial
Revolution", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 267-289

N. F. R. Crafts, "British Economic Growth, 1700-1831: A Review of the Evidence", The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 1983), pp. 177-199

Gregory Clark, “The Condition of theWorking Class in England, 1209-2004,” Journal of Political Economy, 113 (Dec. 2005): 1307-1340

Peter Temin, “Two Views of the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, March 1997.

FOR READING

Joel Mokyr, “The New Economic History and the Industrial Revolution,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (Boulder, 1999).

N.F.R. Crafts and C. Knick Harley, “Output Growth and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View,” Economic History Review, November 1992.

Gary D. Hansen and Edward C. Prescott, "Malthus to Solow", The American Economic Review, Vol 92, No. 4. (Sept., 2002), pp. 1205-1217

LECTURE 3 [download slides]

Sources of the Industrial Revolution

FOR LECTURING

Robert Allen, "Agriculture During the Industrial Revolution," in Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume I: Industrialization, 1700-1860 (Cambridge, ENG, 2004).

E. A. Wrigley, “The Transition to an Advanced Organic Economy: Half a Millennium of English Agriculture,” Economic History Review, 59 (Aug. 2006): 435-80.

Jan de Vries, “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, 54 (June 1994): 249-70.

Hans-Joachim Voth, “Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London,” Journal of Economic History, 58 (Mar. 1998): 29-58.

Robert C. Allen, “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective: How Commerce Rather than Science Caused the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth,” unpublished paper (2006).

FOR READING

P. H. H. Vries, “Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? Ken Pomeranz and the Great Divergence,” Journal of World History, 12 (Fall 2001): 407-46.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, 95 (June 2005): 546- 79.

Philip Hoffman, "Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1789," Journal of Economic History, December, 1991.

FOR PRESENTATION [download slides]

Gregory Clark, “Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency, and Institutional Change”, Journal of Economic History, March 1998.

 

LECTURE 4 [download slides]

How did the second Industrial Revolution become possible?

FOR LECTURING

Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Was the Transition from the Artisanal Shop to the Non-mechanized Factory AssociatedWith Gains in Efficiency?” Explorations in Economic History, 21 (Oct. 1984): 351-82.

Kenneth L. Sokoloff and David Dollar, “Agricultural Seasonality and the Organization of Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: The Contrast Between Britain and the United States,” Journal of Economic History, 57 (June 1997): 288-321.

Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Productivity Growth in Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860,” in Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, eds., Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth (Chicago 1986), pp. 679-736.

Gavin Wright, “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940,” American Economic Review, 80 (Sept. 1990): 651-68.

Paul A. David and Gavin Wright, “Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 6 (March 1997): 203-45.

Douglas A. Irwin, “Did Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tin Plate Industry,” Journal of Economic History, 60 (June 2000): 335-60.

FOR READING

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (New York
1985), chpts. 3 and 4.

J. Bradford De Long, “Did J. P. Morgan’s Men Add Value? An Economist’s Perspective on Financial Capitalism,” in Peter Temin, ed., Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information (Chicago 1991), pp. 205-49.

FOR PRESENTATION [download slides]

Claudia Goldin and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses,” Journal of Economic History, 42 (Dec. 1982): 741-74.

LECTURE 5 [download slides]

Changes associated with the second Industrial Revolution: government, firm, and urbanization

FOR LECTURING

Douglass C. North and Barry R.Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England,” Journal of Economic History, 49 (Dec. 1989): 803-32.

Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast, “A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History,” NBER Working Paper No. 12795 (2006).

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin, “Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Towards a New Synthesis of American Business History,” American Historical Review, 108 (April 2003): 404-33.

Sukkoo Kim and Robert A. Margo, “Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography, NBER Working Paper 9594 (2003).

Nathan Rosenberg and Manuel Trajtenberg, “A General-Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Journal of Economic History, 64 (Mar. 2004): 61-99.

FOR READING

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), Chapter 3.

FOR PRESENTATION

Elizabeth Granitz and Benjamin Klein, “Monopolization by ‘Raising Rivals’ Costs’: The Standard Oil Case,” Journal of Law and Economics, 39 (April 1996): 1-48.

[download slides]

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Mobilizing Venture Capital During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920,” Capitalism and Society, 1 (2006), issue 3, article 5.

[download slides]

LECTURE 6 [download slides]

Formal and Informal Institutions

FOR LECTURING

Avner Greif, “Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies,” Journal of Political Economy (October 1994).

Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison, “An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation,” Journal of Political Economy, 110 (June 2002): 646-71.

Barro, Robert J. and McCleary, Rachel M., "Religion and Economic Growth" (May 2003). NBER Working Paper Series, Vol. w9682.

Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce I. Sacerdote, "Education and Religion" (February 2002), NBER Working Paper Series.

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, “Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910-1940,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 29 (4) 683-723.

FOR READING

Chaney, Eric, "Ethnic Cleansing and the Long-Term Persistence of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos," September, 2008.

Chaney, Eric, "Tolerance, Religious Competition and the Rise and Fall of Muslim Science," November, 2008.

FOR PRESENTATION

Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Wobmann, “Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History,” unpublished paper (2007).

[download slides]

Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir, and William Easterly, “Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (November 1999): 143-1284.

[download slides]

LECTURE 7 [download slides]

Legal Regimes

FOR LECTURING

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny, “Legal Determinants of External Finance,” Journal of Finance, 52 (July 1997): 1131-50.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business’s Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization,” American Law and Economics Review, 7 (Spring 2005), pp. 28-61.

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and RobertW. Vishny, “Law and Finance,” Journal of Political Economy 106 (Dec. 1998): 1113-55.

FOR READING

Ma, Debin , "Law And Economic Growth: The Case Of Traditional China," September, 2008.

FOR PRESENTATION

Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales, “The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Financial Economics, 69 (Fall 2003): 5-50. [download slides]

Aldo Musacchio, “Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2003,” Harvard Business School Working Paper no. 06-040 (2006). [download slides]

LECTURE 8 [download slides]

Patent Systems, Property Rights and Technical Change

FOR LECTURING

Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence from Patent Records, 1790-1846,” Journal of Economic History, 48 (Dec. 1988): 813-50.

Kenneth L. Sokoloff and B. Zorina Khan, "The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States, 1790-1846", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 363-378

B. Zorina Khan and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, ""Schemes of Practical Utility": Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among "Great Inventors" in the United States, 1790-1865", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 289-307

FOR READING

Robert Allen, “Collective Invention,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 4 (January 1983): 1-24.

FOR PRESENTATION

Petra Moser, “How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth- Century World’s Fairs,” American Economic Review, 95 (Sept. 2005): 1214-36.

[download slides]

LECTURE 9 [download slides]

Openness, Commerce and Development

FOR LECTURING

Edwards, Sebastian (1993). “Openness, Trade Liberalization, and Growth in Developing Countries,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Sep., 1993), pp. 1358-1393.

Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke, “Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000,” in Globalization in Historical Perspective, ed. Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 13-64.

Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G.Williamson (2002), "From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper w8955, May)

Frankel, Jeffrey A. and David Romer (1999). “Does Trade Cause Growth?” The American Economic Review, Vol.89, No. 3. (Jun., 1999), pp. 379-399.

FOR READING

Antoni Estevadeorda, Brian Frantz, and Alan M.Taylor, “The Rise And Fall Of World Trade, 1870-1939,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (May 2003): 359-407.

FOR PRESENTATION

Shiue, Carol H. (2002). “Transport Costs and the Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth Century China,” American Economic Review, 92(5):1406-1419. 9

[download slides]

LECTURES 10, 11 [download slides]

Financial Institutions and Economic Development

FOR LECTURING

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development (New York: Cambridge University Press 1994), Introduction and Chapters 1 and 3.

Michael Collins, “English Bank Development within a European Context, 1870-1939.” Economic History Review, 51 (February 1998): 1-24.

Gelderblom, Oscar, and Joost Jonkers. “Completing a Financial Revolution, the Finance of the East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market 1595-1612.” The Journal of Economic History (2004), 64: 641-672

Timothy Guinnane, W. “Delegated Monitors, Large and Small: Germany’s Banking System, 1800-1914.” Journal of Economic Literature, 40 (March 2002): 73-124.

FOR PRESENTATION

Peter Rousseau and Richard Sylla, “Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth,” Explorations in Economic History, 42 (Jan. 2005), 1-26.

[download slides]

P. T. Hoffman, G. Postel-Vinay, and J-L Rosenthal, "Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris, 1660-1726". Journal of Economic History, June 1995.

[download slides]

Robert Cull, Lance E. Davis, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises,” Journal of Banking and Finance, 30 (Nov. 2006), pp. 3017-42.

[download slides]

FOR READING

Ross Levine, “Financial Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda,” Journal of Economic Literature (June 1997).

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silenez, and Guillermo Zamarripa, “Related Lending,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (Feb. 2003): 231-268

Maurer, Noel and Haber, Stephen H., Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico (December 8, 2004). AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings.

LECTURE 12 [download slides]

Measuring Living Standards, RealWages and Prices

FOR LECTURING

Steckel, Richard (1995). “Stature and the Standard of Living, ” Journal of Economic Literature. 33(4) (December 1995), pp 1903-1940

Steckel, Richard. “Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America: The Skeletal Evidence.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 36 (Summer 2005), 1-32.

Se Yan, "Real Wages and Skill Premia in China, 1860 to 1936", mimeo UCLA

Robert C. Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma, Christine Moll-Murata, and Jan Luiten van Zanden, “Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, Japan, and Europe, 1738-1925”, GPIH working paper.

FOR PRESENTATION

James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell, “Living Standards in Liaoning, 1749–1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes”, in Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe, “Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe”, Oxford University, 2005.

[download slides]

FOR READING

Ozmucur, Suleyman and Sevket Pamkut, (2002). “Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914,” Journal of Economic History 62(2): 225-47.

Robert Allen, “The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to World War I,” Explorations in Economic History, 38 (October 2001): 411-447.

Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson, "English Workers' Living Standards during the Industrial Revolution: A New Look," The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Feb., 1983), pp. 1-25

LECTURE 13 [download slides]

Inequality

FOR LECTURING

Peter H. Lindert, “Unequal English Wealth Since 1670,” Journal of Political Economy, December 1986.

Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo, “The Great Compression: TheWage Structure in the US at Mid Century,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, (Feb. 1992), p.1-34.

L. Katz and K. Murphy, “Changes in Relative Wages, 1964-1987: Supply and Demand Factors,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, (Feb. 1992), p. 35-78.

Joseph Ferrie and Jason Long, “A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Career Mobility in Britain (1851-1881) and the U.S. (1850-1880),” unpublished working paper, 2003.

Simon Kuznets, “Economic Growth and Income Inequality,” American Economic Review, March 1955.

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, “Income Inequality in France, 1900-1998,” unpublished working paper, 2000.

FOR PRESENTATION

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003.

Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994,” American Economic Review, March 2006.

[download slides]

FOR READING

Clayne Pope, “Measuring the Distribution ofWell-Being,” unpublished working paper, 2003.

Daron Acemoglu, “Technical Change, Inequality and the Labor Market”, Journal of Economic Literature (March 2002), p. 7-72.

LECTURE 14

Summary: Are We Better Off?

FOR LECTURING

Fogel, Robert. (2004). The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100, Europe, America and the Third World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-65.

Richard Easterlin, “Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 27 (June 1995): 35-47.

Robert W. Fogel, “Catching up with the Economy,” American Economic Review (March 1999): 1-21.

Economic Growth 2010

Under Construction

Macroeconomics 2009

Under Construction

Macroeconomics 2010

Syllabus [download PDF]

LECTURE 1

Introduction [download slides]

LECTURE 2

GDP [download slides]

LECTURE 3

CPI [download slides]

LECTURE 4

Unemployment [download slides]

Topics in Chinese Economy 2009

MACROECONOMICS 2010

SYLLABUS [download PDF]

LECTURE 1

Introduction [download slides]

National Income Accounting [download slides]

Under Construction

Under Construction

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EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA)
Ph.D., Economics, 2008
C. Phil. and M.A., Economics, 2004

PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA
M.A., Economic History, 2002
B.A., International Economics, 2000

DISSERTATION

Title: "Essays on Real Wages and Wage Inequality in China, 1858 to 1936."
Co-chairs: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Dora L. Costa.
Completion: June 2008.

FIELDS

Primary: Development Economics; Macroeconomics; Economic History
Secondary: Labor Economics; Chinese Economy

PUBLICATIONS

"The Price and Consumption of Salt in China in 1901", with Patrick Hase, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, forthcoming.

WORKING PAPERS

"Real Wages and Skill Premia in China, 1858 to 1936," job market paper, October 2007.
"Globalization, Trade & Wages: What Does History tell us about China?" with Kris Mitchener, October 2008.
"Why Do Large Firms Pay Higher Wages in Developing Countries", with Hongbin Cai and Miaojun Wang, October 2008.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Instructor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 2008 to present
Courses: International MBA Macroeconomics; PhD Economic Growth

Instructor, Business and Management Division, UCLA Extension, 2005-2006
Courses: Topics in Chinese Economy; Business Economics; International Economics

Teaching Assistant, UCLA Department of Economics, 2004-2007
Courses: Macroeconomic Theory; Microeconomic Theory; Statistics; Principle of Macroeconomics

Teaching Assistant, International Development Studies, UCLA International Institute, 2007
Course: Economics of Developing Countries

Research Assistant, Prof. Kenneth Sokoloff, UCLA Economics Department, 2004-2005

Statistics Programmer, UCLA Medical School, 2004

REFEREEING

Explorations in Economic History; Empirical Economics

Last updated: July 2009

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