Chen Shuo_Publication

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Generalist Middle Managers and Strategy Implementation

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Shipeng Yan and Danqing Wang, Journal of Management Studies.
The Long-term Effect of Social Disasters on Stock Market Participation

Abstract: Households’ investment decisions are driven by their risk preferences. How do social disruptions res...

with Yang Cai and Dongxu Li, Journal of Corporate Finance 93: 102799.
The Abolition of People’s Communes and Fertility Decline in Rural China

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with Bin Xie, Journal of Development Economics 172: 103375.
Starving and Deceiving: Famine Experience, Politician Risk Preference, and GDP Manipulation in China

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with Xinyu Fan and Xuanyi Wang, Public Choice 1-20.
Canal and Trade: Transport Infrastructure and Market Integration in China:1780-1911

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with Jianan Li and Qin Yao, Journal of Comparative Economics 52(4): 793-812.
The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture: Elite Control Versus Cooperation in China

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with Raymond Fisman, Xiaohuan Lan, Yongxiang Wang, and Qing Ye, forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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with Bin Xie, Explorations in Economic History 101615.
The Persistent Effects of Historical China’s Permanent Forced Military Service System: the Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor

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with Danli Wang, Journal of Historical Political Economy 4(2): 159-187.
Communism and Patricide: Collectivization and Domestic Violence in 1960s’ China

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with Danli Wang and Yaohui Peng, Economic History Review 77(2): 703-727.
Pandemic and Insurance Purchase: The Behavioral Response to COVID-19

Abstract: We investigate how people insure themselves against an upsurge of risk and uncertainty during a pand...

with Zhuoer Lin, Xian Xu, and Xuanyi Wang, China Economic Review 79: 101946.
In the Shadow of Administrative Decentralization: The Impact of Devolution on Subnational Service Provision

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of Grand Canal abandonmentin 1825, the world’s largest and oldes...

with Yiran Li and Yaohui Peng, American Review of Public Administration 53.7-8: 280-295.
Competence-Loyalty Tradeoff under Dominant Minority Rule: The Case of Centuries of Manchu Rule

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of Grand Canal abandonmentin 1825, the world’s largest and oldes...

with Xinyu Fan, Colin Xu, Xun Yan, Journal of Public Economics 220: 104843.
Accountability from Cyberspace? Scandals Exposure on the Internet and Official Governance in China

Abstract: This article explores the effects of social media on government accountability under authoritarian r...

with Yiran Li, Political Science Research and Methods 12(1): 130-145.
From Past Lies to Current Misconduct: The Long Shadow of China's Great Leap Forward

Abstract: Using hand-collected data on yield over-reporting during China's Great Leap Forward (GLF) period...

with Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin and Haichun Ye, Journal of Development Economics 157: 102888.
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–1911

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of the abandonment of China’s Grand Canal—the world’s largest and ol...

with Yiming Cao, American Economic Review 112(5): 1555-90.
Chasing or Cheating? Theory and Evidence on the Reliability of China’s GDP

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of promotion incentive on county officials’ GDP manipulation in China,...

with Xue Sherry Qiao and Zhitao Zhu, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 189: 657-71.
Gone with the wind? Emissions of Neighboring Coal-fired Power Plants and Local Public Health in China

Abstract: Based on a nationwide representative county-level dataset from China, this article empirically exami...

with Yiran Li, Guang Shi and Zhitao Zhu, China Economics Review 69: 101660.
Warcraft: The Legitimacy Building of Usurpers

Abstract: Rulers ascending to the throne differ substantially in their need for legitimization. This paper ask...

with Xinyu Fan. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 184: 409-31.
Running out of Steam? Political Terms and FDI Inflow in China

Abstract: Drawing on the sociological literature of state bureaucracy, we develop a political incentive perspe...

with Danqing Wang, Zhitao Zhu and Xiaowei Rose Luo, Journal of International Business Studies 52: 692-717.
Tractor vs. Animal: Rural Reforms and Technology Adoption in China

Abstract: Better institutions do not always advance technologies. China’s rural reforms during the early 1980s...

with Xiaohuan Lan, Journal of Development Economics 147: 1-10.
Move to Success? Headquarters Relocation, Political Favoritism, and Corporate Performance

Abstract: This study documents an unexplored corporate rent-seeking phenomenon in non-representative regimes—r...

with Bo Yang and Xun Yan, Journal of Corporate Finance 64: 1-31.
The Health Costs of the Industrial Leap Forward in China: Evidence from the Sulfur Dioxide Emissions of Coal‐fired Power Stations

Abstract: In this study, we attempt to empirically test the effects of air pollution on public health in China...

with Yiran Li and Qin Yao, China Economic Review 49: 68-83.
There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

Abstract: The elimination of private property rights can lead to inefficient use of productive assets. In Chin...

with Xiaohuan Lan. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9(4): 58-77.
Of Maize and Men: The Effect of a New World Crop on Population and Economic Growth in China

Abstract: WeexaminethequestionofwhetherChinawastrappedwithinaMalthusianregime at a time when Western Europe ha...

with James KUNG, Journal of Economic Growth 21: 71-99.
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine

Abstract: A salient feature of China’s Great Leap Famine is that political radicalism varied enormously across...

with James KUNG, American Political Science Review 105 (1): 27-45.

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