Li-An Zhou

Global rank #4034 95%

Institution: Peking University

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 2005

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	0.00	2.35	2.35	7.04
Last 10 Years	0.50	4.19	4.09	14.48
All Time	0.50	7.37	6.27	23.61

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 25

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 15.38

Publications (25)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	The political economy of ratchet effect: Evidence from China’s environmental regulation	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	4
2024	Drinking water facilities and inclusive development: Evidence from Rural China	World Development	B	3
2024	Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	Journal of Population Economics	B	4
2023	Window dressing in the public sector: Evidence from China’s compulsory education promotion program	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2023	Suing the government under weak rule of law: Evidence from administrative litigation reform in China	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2022	The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	Journal of Economic History	B	4
2021	Market‐expanding or Market‐stealing? Competition with network effects in bike‐sharing	RAND Journal of Economics	A	4
2021	Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	3
2020	Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China	American Economic Review	S	4
2020	Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	3
2019	The gradients of power: Evidence from the Chinese housing market	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2019	Target Setting in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from China	Economic Journal	A	4
2017	Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency: Evidence from China	Journal of Corporate Finance	B	5
2017	Does Raising Family Income Cause Better Child Health? Evidence from China	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	3
2016	Strategic interaction in political competition: Evidence from spatial effects across Chinese cities	Regional Science and Urban Economics	B	3
2015	The Effect of Microinsurance on Economic Activities: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	4
2014	Seller reputation: From word-of-mouth to centralized feedback	International Journal of Industrial Organization	B	4
2013	Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	4
2010	Income and Consumption Inequality in Urban China: 1992-2003	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	3
2010	INCENTIVES, EQUALITY AND CONTRACT RENEGOTIATIONS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE CHINESE BANKING INDUSTRY*	Journal of Industrial Economics	A	3
2008	Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2007	The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China	Journal of Health Economics	B	2
2005	Relative performance evaluation and the turnover of provincial leaders in China	Economics Letters	C	3
2005	Political turnover and economic performance: the incentive role of personnel control in China	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2005	Parental childcare and children's educational attainment: evidence from China	Applied Economics	C	4