YANJUN LI'S SITE
Publications
Highway havens for hidden horrors: Expressway connections and child trafficking in China (with Yu Bai, Xinyan Liu, and Yajie Sun). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 228, 106765, 2024
Labor activism over searing heat (with Yi Huang). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 122, 102888, 2023
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Positive and negative health events and trust (with Umer Hamza). Empirica, 51, 459–479, 2024
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Quantity-quality trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing dynasty (with Yu Bai and Pak Hung Lam). Journal of Population Economics, 36, 1657–1694, 2023
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The legacy of imperial China—evidence from the Great Wall (with Anastasia Arabadzhyan and Yu Bai). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 196, 2022
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Political tournaments and regional growth-enhancing policies: Evidence from Chinese prefectures (with Yu Bai). Journal of Regional Science, 2022
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Chinese aid and local political attitudes (with Yu Bai and Yunuo Wang). Economic Modelling, 113, 2022
More suffering, more involvement? The causal effects of seismic disasters on social capital (with Yu Bai). World Development, 138, 2021
Good bye Chiang Kai-shek? The long-lasting effects of education under the authoritarian regime in Taiwan (with Yu Bai). Economics of Education Review, 78, 2020
A sibling-pair analysis for causal effect of education on health (with Yu Bai). The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 18.4, 2018
Working Papers
Land reform and illegal adoption of children (with Masaki Nakabayashi, Yu Bai). R&R
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Education as a panacea for crime prevention? The heterogeneous impact of educational policy on crime (with Yu Bai, Xinyan Liu, Tanaka Ryuichi)​
Historical roots of political stability (with Xinyan Liu, Yu Bai).​
Sophie and the locust curse: Effects of locust plague on human capital accumulations (with Guojun He, Pak Hung Lam, Yu Bai).​
Corruption disclosure and its impact on labor-related actions (with Hamza Umer, Yu Bai).​ R&R
University campus and child trafficking (with Xinyan Liu, Tanaka Ryuichi).​
The Non-linear Impact of Corruption Investigations on Political Trust (with Hamza Umer).​ R&R
Breaking barriers: free education reform and the urban-rural disparities in China (with Jie Bai, Chen Zhang).​
Digital financial inclusion and firms' credit ratings (with Chen Zhang). R&R
Working in Progress
Unbearable temperature and unignorable health issues (with Yi Huang).
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War and women empowerment (with Midori Wakabayashi, Wataru Kureishi, Xinyan Liu, Yu Bai).
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Economic preferences in developing countries: intergenerational transmission and the role of cognitive ability (with Anh T. Tran)
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Investigating the role of Fintech adoption on SMEs Business Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Anh T. Tran)
Funding
FY2023-2026 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator).