Publications

• ​​"Demographic Engineering and International Conflict: Evidence from China and the USSR" (with Lachlan A. McNamee). 2019. International Organization 73(2), 291-327.
  • Awarded International Organization's 2019 Robert Keohane Award for the best paper written by a junior scholar.
  • Awarded the best paper by a graduate student at the Pacific International Politics Conference, 2018.

• "'Sons of the Soil': A Model of Assimilation and Population Control" (with Avidit Acharya and David D. Laitin). 2018. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 30(2), 184-223.

Working Papers

• ​"Controlling Peripheral Territories with State-Owned Enterprises."
• "State Capacity, Encirclement, and Ethnic Violence."
• ​​​​"Embittered Winners: Rights Deprivation and Ideological Distortion" (with Jidong Chen). ​​

Works in Progress

• ​"State Building as an Agency Problem: Redistributive Response to Ethnic Riots."
• "Endogenizing Ethnic Demography: Foreign Intervention and State Building in Xinjiang."
• "Ethnicity and Redistribution: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment on Chinese Bureaucrats" (with Zhongyuan Wang).