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SUMMARY
Education
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Ph.D. (1999), Economics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. B.S. (1990), Economics.
Academic Positions
University of Colorado, Boulder
Associate Professor
of Economics, Fall 2005-present.
University of Texas, Austin
Assistant
Professor of Economics, 1999-2005.
Instructor, University of Texas, 1998.
Awards and Professional Activities
Research Economist, National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), International Trade and
Investment (ITI), July 2005-present.
Research Affiliate, Centre for
Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Economic History Initiative (EH)/
International Trade (IT), May 2006-present.
Visiting Researcher, The World
Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C., 2003.
Visiting Scholar, The Russell
Sage Foundation, New York City, 2002-2003.
Gerschenkron Prize finalist,
Economic History Association, best international dissertation, 1999.
Associate, Export-Import Bank of
the United States, Country Risk Division,1989.
Editorial Board, Journal of Economic History,
2007-present.
Research Grants
National Institutes of
Health, 2002-2004, extended to 2005. “Intergenerational and Interfamily
Economic Links,” Principal Investigator.
National Science Foundation,
2005-2008. “What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from a
Comparison of China and Europe in the 18th Century,” Co-Principal
Investigator, with Wolfgang Keller.
Metanexus Institute, 2005-2007. “Project on Religion
and Economic Change,” Co-Principal Investigator, with Robert D.
Woodberry, Mark D. Regnerus, Joseph E. Potter,
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, and Daniel Powers.
Teaching-Related Grant
National Science Foundation,
2008, Dissertation Improvement Grant 0752696. “Savings
in the United States, 1835-1853,” Principal
Investigator, with Jessica Vechbanyongratana.
Publications
“Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution,”
(with Wolfgang Keller). The American Economic Review,
September 2007, 97(4), pp.
1189-1216.
“Transport Costs and the
Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth Century China,” The
American Economic Review,
December 2002, 92(5), pp.
1406-1419.
“The Origins of Spatial
Interaction: Evidence from Chinese Rice Markets, 1742-1795,” (with
Wolfgang Keller), Journal of Econometrics,
September 2007, 140(1), pp. 304-332.
“Market Integration and
Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison,” (with Wolfgang Keller), Review of Development Economics,
February 2007, 11(1), pp. 107-123.
“From Political
Fragmentation towards a Custom Union: Border Effects of the German Zollverein,
1815-1855,” European Review of
Economic History, August 2005, 9(2), pp 129-162.
“The Political Economy
of Famine Relief in China, 1740-1820,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Summer 2005, 36(1), pp. 33-55.
“Local Granaries and
Central Government Disaster Relief: Moral Hazard and Intergovernmental
Finance in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century China,” The
Journal of Economic History, March 2004, 64(1), pp. 101-125.
“Comparing the
Correlation Length of Grain Markets in China and France,” International
Journal of Modern Physics C, October 2000, 11(7), pp. 1383-1410 (with Bertrand M. Roehner, LPTHE, Université
Paris 7).
“Grain Trade and
Storage in Late Imperial China,” The
Journal of Economic History, June 2000, 60(2), pp. 511-515 (Dissertation
Summary, selected for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize Panel).
“Comments
on Abramitzky, Chaudhary,
Musacchio,” The Journal of Economic History, June 2007, 67(2), pp. 511-515. (Alexander
Gerschenkron Prize Panel, Convener’s comments.)
“Review
of Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial
Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Economic History Services book review,
September 2006. Also published as a book review in The Journal of Economic History,
December 2006, 66(4), pp. 1086-1088.
“Review of Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, Robert
Gardella (eds.), Contract
and Property in Early Modern China,” Stanford University Press, 2004. Economic History Services book review,
September 2004.
Working Papers and
Work in Progress
“Human Capital and
Fertility in China, 1350-1800,” February 2008.
“Economic Status and
Intergenerational Mobility: A Survey of Chinese Genealogical Evidence From
1300-1900,” work in progress.
“Tariffs, Trade, and Trains: The Role
of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets,” (with
Wolfgang Keller), January 2008.
“The Rise of Markets in
the Western World: A Global Comparison,” Russell Sage Foundation Working Paper #211, May 2003.
Courses Taught
Principles of Microeconomics, 1999.
Intermediate Microeconomics, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004.
Economic Development (Undergraduate), 2000 and 2002.
Economic Development (Ph.D.), 1998, 2000, and 2004.
Macroeconomics/International Prospectus Seminar (Ph.D.), 2004
European Economic History Undergraduate, 2006, 2007, 2008.
World Economic History Undergraduate, 2006, 2007.
Economic History (Ph.D.), 2006.
Research Methods Workshop (Ph.D.), 2008
Seminar
Presentations
McGill University, March 2008
University of Western Ontario, November 2007
Washington Area Economic History Seminar,
March 2007
Columbia University, April 2005 (joint paper presented by
co-author)
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, March 2005
North Carolina State University, January 2005
University of Houston, November 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Northwestern University, December 2004
University of California-Davis, November 2004
University of Colorado-Boulder, November 2004
Harvard University, October 2004
Yale University, October 2004
Michigan State University, October 2004
Texas A & M University, April 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Ohio State University, April 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
University of Texas-Austin, April 2004
Stanford University, October 2003
University of California-Berkeley, October 2003
International Monetary Fund, October 2003 (joint paper presented by
co-author)
The World Bank, May 2003
Columbia University, May 2003
University College London, May 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
London School of Economics, May 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Brown University, April 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
University of California-Los Angeles, April 2003
The Russell Sage Foundation, March 2003
Harvard University, November 2002
Brown University, April 2002
University of Michigan, March 1998
University of Texas-Austin, January 1998
University of Toronto, October 1997
Yale University, November 1997
Invited Speaker
at International Conferences
NSF/NBER/CEPR
workshops on The Evolution of the Global Economy, Lund, Sweden, October 2006 (presented by co-author).
Global Economic History Network Conference on Factor
Markets, Utrecht, Netherlands,
June 2005.
Conference on “Market Performance and the Welfare Gains”,
European University Institute,
Florence, Italy,
July 2004; funded by the European Science Foundation.
Conference on “Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
from the Past and Present”, Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour,
France, May 2003;
funded by the Fondation des Treilles
and the
European Science Foundation.
European Research Conference (EURESCO) on “Commercial
Networks, Transaction Costs, and Market Integration, 1250-2000”, Venice,
Italy, December 1999;
funded by the European
Science Foundation.
Speaker at other
International Conferences
Fourth European Historical Economics Society Conference, Oxford,
England, September 2001;
(presented by co-author).
Econometric Society European Meetings, Berlin,
Germany, August 1998.
European Economic Association Congress,
Berlin, Germany,
August 1998.
Speaker at National
Conferences and Meetings
Economic History Association meetings, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, September 2006. Convener of
the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize dissertation session and discussant.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on China
in Economic Transition,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
October 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute,
Income Distribution and
Macroeconomics, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
July 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute,
Development of the American
Economy, Massachusetts, July
2004.
“Institutions and Economic Growth” session of
the Economic History Association, Allied Social
Science Association meetings, San Diego, California, January 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Winter meetings,
International Trade and Investment,
Stanford, California,
December 2003.
Economic History Association meetings, St.
Louis, Missouri, October
2002.
Econometric Society Winter meetings, Boston,
Massachusetts, January 2000.
Economic History Association meetings, Baltimore,
Maryland, October 1999.
Tenth Annual Lonestars Conference,
Texas A & M
University, College
Station, Texas, October 1999.
Econometric Society Winter meetings, New
York City, January 1999.
Cliometric Society session at the
Allied Social Science Association meetings, New York
City,
January 1999.
Ninth Annual Lonestars Conference,
University of Texas,
Austin, Texas,
October 1998.
Other Grants and
Awards
Dean’s Fellowship, University
of Texas, 2001.
Faculty 2000 Research Grant, University of Texas, 1999-2000.
Summer Research Assignment, University
of Texas, 2000.
Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University,
1997.
Economics Department Grant, Yale University,
1996.
Princeton in Beijing
Program Grant, Princeton University,
1995.
Cheng-Lee Foundation Research Grant, Yale
Center for International and Area
Studies, 1995.
Other Professional
Activities
Referee for The American Economic Review, China Economic Review, Explorations in Economic
History, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Economic History, Journal of International Economics, International Regional Science Review, Modern China, and other journals.
Reviewer for the National Science Foundation.
Member, American Economic Association, Economic History
Association, European Historical Economics Society, Cliometrics
Society.
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