YANJUN LI'S SITE
Publications
Labor activism over searing heat (with Yi Huang). Accepted at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
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Quantity-quality trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing dynasty (with Yu Bai and Pak Hung Lam). Accepted at Journal of Population Economics
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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
Historical roots of political stability.
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Digital financial inclusion and firms' credit ratings.
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Road to crime: Expressway connections and child trafficking (with Yajie Sun, 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).
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University campus and child trafficking (with Xinyan Liu, Tanaka Ryuichi).
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Land reform and illegal adoption of children (with Masaki Nakabayashi, Yu Bai).
Working in Progress
Unbearable temperature and unignorable health issues (with Yi Huang).
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Compulsory schooling laws as crime control: Evidence from China (with Tanaka Ryuichi, 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).