Joy Chen [陈雨新]

Publications

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• State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China. [WP Version]

  • ​​​​Journal of Economic History, accepted

  • ​​Best Paper Award, International Symposium of Quantitative History, 2018

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• Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm: How Government Policies Affect SMEs in China (with Zijun Cheng, Robin Gong and Jinlin Li). [Link] [WP Version]

  • ​​​China Economic Review, 2022

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• Media Attention and Choice of Major: Evidence from Anti-Doctor Violence in China (with Shiyu Bo, Yan Song and Sen Zhou). [Link] [WP Version]

  • ​​Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020

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Working Papers

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• Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China (with Erik Wang and Xiaoming Zhang), updated Dec. 2022. [Link]

  • ​Revise and resubmit

  • Media: Broadstreet

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•  Industrial Policy i n a New Era: Government Venture Capital in the U.S.-China Trade War (with Robin Gong and Jinlin Li), updated Jul. 2023. [Link]

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• How (not) to Solve the Guardianship Dilemma: Institutional Counterbalancing and the Consequence of Military Control in Medieval China (with Erik Wang), draft coming soon.

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• Political Elites and Human Capital Formation in Pre-Imperial China, updated Feb. 2020. [Link]

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Book Reviews

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• Review of The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Richard von Glahn (with Avner Greif). [Link]

  • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2018

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