September 2013
RUIXUE JIA
Email: [email protected]
http://people.su.se/~rjia/
Research Interests
Political Economics and Development, Organizational Economics, Economic History
Employment
2013Affiliation
Assistant Professor, UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
2013-
Global Scholar, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Education
2010-2013
2009-2010
2007-2009
2004-2007
2000-2004
Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University (PhD)
Department of Economics, Harvard University (Special Student)
Department of Economics, Stockholm University (PhD student)
China Center for Economic Research, Peking University (M.A.)
China Youth College for Political Sciences (B.A.)
Publications
“Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China”, Economic Journal, forthcoming
“The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China’s Treaty Ports”, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
Non-peer-reviewed publications
“Decentralization and Military Coup” (with Pinghan Liang)
--in Manas Chatterji (ed.) Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development,
2012, 149-170.
Working Papers
“Pollution for Promotion”
“Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance in Political Selection in China”
(with Masa Kudamatsu and David Seim) CEPR working paper
“Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths” (with Huihua Nie)
“Red Capitalism: Cadre Parents and Entrepreneurial Children in China” (with Xiaohuan Lan)
Work in Progress
“Informal Exchange and Political Power in Rural China” (with Paul Novosad)
--Funded by NSF Fund (No. 1156205) and Paul Warburg Fund
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Teaching Experience
2011-2013
2010
2008
Political Economics II (PhD) (TA for Torsten Persson and David Strömberg)
Instructor for Stata Sessions (Master) at Stockholm University
Math I (PhD) (TA for Jörgen Weibull)
Professional Activities
Referee for American Economic Review, China Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics,
Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
Journal of the European Economic Association, Macroeconomic Dynamics , Review of Economic Dynamics,
Review of Economics and Institutions, Review of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavia Journal of Economics
2011-2012, Organizer of the Brownbag Seminars at IIES.
Scholarships and Awards
2013-2015, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Global Scholar Fellowship
2010, K&A Wallenbergs Stiftelse, Stockholm University
2009-2010, Hedeliusstipendium for research abroad
Since 2010, Financial Support by the Handelsbanken Research Foundation
2007-2009, Widar Bagge Scholarship, Stockholm University
Presentations (including scheduled)
"Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance in Political Selection in China"
2013 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Shandong University
“Pollution for Promotion’’
2013 China Economic Summer Institute at HKUST, China Meeting of the Econometric Society,
Bocconi, LSE, Northwestern Kellogg, USC Marshall, Berkeley, Stanford GSB, UCSD
IRPS, UPF CREI, PSE, UCL, Warwick
2012 Uppsala, SSE, NEUDC at Dartmouth, Oxford OxCarre, IIES, IFN, BREAD-Guanghua
Summer School, Renmin University of China
“Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths”
2012
RES annual meeting, Warwick CAGE
2011
SSE Econ SSE SITE, SSE CERC, IIES
“Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China”
2012
Asian Economic History Conference
2011
HiCN Workshop, EEA in Oslo, LSE, SSE SITE
2010
IIES
“The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China’s Treaty Ports”
2011
Tsinghua Economic History Forum, Zurich, Stockholm University,
Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference
2010
UPF, NEUDC at MIT, EEA in Glasgow (poster), EHA in Evanston (poster),
Econometric Society World Congress in Shanghai
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2009
Harvard Development Lunch, Economic History Tea, MIT Political Economy Breakfast
“Government Structure and Military Coup”
2010
Annual Meeting of Swedish Economists (poster)
“Informal Exchange and Political Power in Rural China”
2010
Stockholm Development Study Group
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