RESEARCH Nancy Qian

PUBLICATIONS

“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Income on Sex Imbalance” Forthcoming in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3), August 2008. PDF

“Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2010” (with Thomas Piketty) Forthcoming in American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, Vol 1, January 2009. PDF

WORKING PAPERS

“The Impact of Potatoes on Population Growth and Urbanization after Columbus: A Historic Natural Experiment” (with Nathan Nunn) (2008) PDF

(Wall Street Journal)

“The Rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa” (with Erik Meyersson and Gerard Padró-i-Miquel) (2008)

“More Missing Women, Fewer Dying Girls: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan” (with Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu) (UPDATED 2/24/2008) Under Review PDF

“The Causes of Cross-Sectional Inequity in Exposure to China’s Great Famine and Its Long Run Health and Economic Consequences on Survivors” (with Xin Meng) (UPDATED 1/24/2008) Under Review PDF

“Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in China” (2008 UPDATED) PDF

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Savings

“The Effect of Demographic Changes on Savings” (with Abhijit Banerjee)

Infrastructure

“The Railroad to Success: The Effect of Infrastructure on Economic Growth” (with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo)

Political Economy

“The Effect of Increased Accountability: Evidence from China’s Rural Electoral Reforms” (with Gerard Padró-i-Miquel and Yang Yao)

“Who Wants Democracy?” (with Gerard Padró-i-Miquel and Yang Yao)

“Rural China -- the World’s Largest Democracy? Electoral Reforms in the Post-Mao Era” (with Gerard Padró-i-Miquel)

“The Effect of the End of the Cold War and U.S. Hegemony on U.S. Foreign Aid and Human Rights in Recipient Countries” (with David Yanagizawa)

“Truth or Bias? Novel Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Human Rights Reporting” (with Gerard Padró-i-Miquel and David Yanagizawa)

Property Rights

“Estimating the Value of Individual Property Rights: Evidence from China’s Urban Housing Reform” (with Lakshmi Iyer and Xin Meng)

“Endogenous Property Rights Enforcement” (with Sylvain Chassang)

Field Experiments

“The Effect of Access to Bank Loans on Firm Growth in Chinese Cities: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” (with Abhijit Banerjee, David Dollar and Shangjin Wei)

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance,” China Labor Economics Vol. 3, Beijing: China Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2007, pp. 3-28. (Chinese)