​WANG Xuebo

Publications

1. Beyond the Quantity–Quality Tradeoff: Population Control Policy and Human Capital Investment (with Junsen Zhang), Journal of Development Economics 135 (2018): 222–234. [PDF]

​Working Papers

   * denotes the undergraduate and graduate students I advise at SUFE. ​

1. ​Human Organ Trafficking and Missing Persons in China (with Hongyan Shi*), Revise & Resubmit at PNAS. 

2. ​Freedom of Speech, Spirit of Innovation, and Long-Term Economic Development: Evidence from the Qing Dynasty of China (with Benlai Wang*). [PDF]. [Appendix].

3. The Power of Social Networks: Information Elites and the Spread of Politically Sensitive Information under Media Censorship (with Hong Yang*).[PDF]

4. The Political Economy Origins of Economic Geography (with Xin Hu* and Renliang Liu). 

5. Dying to Survive: Unintended Consequences of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Accidents (with Xiaowei Chen*, Qiyue Shen*, Jian Xie, and Zhilong Zhang*). [PDF]

6. Great Famine, Differential Fertility, and Income Inequality: Evidence from China (with Chenxiao Shou and Junsen Zhang).  [PDF], [Appendix].

7. Personality Traits and the Long-term Impact of Adolescent Adversity (with Junsen Zhang).  [PDF].

8. Housing Prices and Human Capital Investment: Wealth versus Substitution Effects (with Hongyan Shi*).

Work in Progress​​​​

1. The Price of Prosperity: Institutional Evolution in the Context of Economic Growth Miracles (with Benlai Wang*).

2. ​The Long Shadow of Gender Stereotypes (with Lixing Wu* and Danyan Zha).