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Email: rxjia@ucsd.edu

RUIXUE JIA
Website: http://www.ruixuejia.com/Employment
Aug 2020— visiting associate professor, Department of Management, LSE.
July 2019— associate professor (with tenure), GPS, UC San Diego
2013-2019assistant professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), UC San Diego

Affiliations
2019—

faculty research fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

2018—
2018—

affiliate, Contextual Robotics Institute, UC San Diego
affiliate, CESifo in Munich

2017—

affiliate, Bureau for Research & Econ Analysis of Development (BREAD)

2016—

associate fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Visiting Positions
visiting scholar: MIT Sloan (fall 2019); Northwestern Kellogg (fall 2014)

Education
2010-13

Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University (PhD)

2009-10
2007-09

Department of Economics, Harvard University (Special Student)
Department of Economics, Stockholm University (PhD student)

2004-07

China Economic Research Center, Peking University (M.A. in Economics)

2000-04

China Youth College for Political Sciences (B.A. in Economics)

Publications
2019
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"The Rise of Robots in China” (with Hong Cheng, Dandan Li and Hongbin Li).
Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 33 (2): 71-88.
"Power and Publications in Chinese Academia" (with Huihua Nie and Wei Xiao).
Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(4): 792-805.
“Is China’s Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence for theAsian Dust” (with Hyejin Ku). Economic Journal, 129 (624): 3154-3188.

2017
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2016
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“Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine Deaths” (with Huihua Nie).
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (1): 105–118.
“Elite Recruitment and Political Stability: The Impact of the Abolition of China’sCivil Service Exam System” (with Ying Bai). Econometrica, vol. 84 (2), 677-733.

2015
“Political Selection in China: Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance”
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(with Masa Kudamatsu and David Seim). Journal of the European Economic Association,vol. 13 (4), 631-668.
2014
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“Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China”.
Economic Journal, vol. 124 (4), 92–118.
“The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China’s Treaty Ports”.
Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 96 (4), 596-608.

2012
“Decentralization and Military Coup” (with Pinghan Liang). in Manas Chatterji (ed.)
Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, 149-170.

Working Papers
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“Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay between Individual and Social Motives"(with Torsten Persson), r&r, JEEA.
“The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Regime
Changes in China, AD1000-2000” (with Ying Bai)
“Just Above the Cutoff: The Return to Elite Education in China” (with Hongbin Li)“Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoringin China" (with Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, and Tong Liu)
“Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention asDeterminants of Entrepreneurship” (with Xiaohuan Lan and Gerard Padró I Miquel)“Pollution for Promotion”

Professional Service
2020—
board of editors, AEJ: Economic Policy
2017—
associate editor, Journal of Comparative Economics
2017—
associate editor, Journal of Development Economics
academic committee member, China Economics Summer Institute2017—
executive committee member, SIOE Conference at MIT
2020
committee member, SIOE Conference in Paris
2016
Referee service for economics journals and grants: AEJ, American Economic Review, China
Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Econometrica, Economica,Economic History Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Explorations in Economic
History, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal ofEconomic Growth, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of HumanResources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal ofPublic Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Journalof the European Economic Association, Journal of Urban Economics, Labor Economics,
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics,
Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Institutions, Review of Economics andStatistics, Scandinavia Journal of Economics, PEDL grant proposal.
Beyond economics: referee for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science

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Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of East AsianStudies, Journal of Politics, Lancet Planetary Health, PLOS ONE, Science.
Book projects reviewing: Columbia University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing.
University Service
2019-20
Faculty Recruitment Committee (International Econ, GPS)
Postdoc Search Committee, Center for Commerce and Diplomacy
Student Admission Committee, GPS
Mentor, UCSD Women in Economics
2018-19

Faculty Recruitment Committee (Public Policy, GPS)
Student Admission Committee, GPS
Co-organizer of the Trade/Development Seminar (Econ-GPS)
Co-organizer of Penn-UCSD conference on China
Mentor, UCSD Women in Economics

2017-18

Student Admission Committee, GPS
Co-organizer of the Trade/Development Seminar (Econ-GPS)
Faculty Recruitment committee (International Economics, GPS)
Co-organizer of the Trade/Development Seminar (Econ-GPS)
Co-organizer of Tsinghua-UCSD conf. on analysis of China’s institutions
Faculty Recruitment Committee (Public Policy, GPS)
Co-organizer of the Trade/Development Seminar (Econ-GPS)
Co-organizer of Tsinghua-UCSD conf. on analysis of China’s institutions

2016-17

2015-16
2014-15

Honors and Awards
2020
2019
2018
2018
2015-162013-15

Referee Prize 2019, Economic Journal
Excellence in Refereeing Award 2018, American Economic Review
Distinguished CESifo Research Affiliate Award
Keynote, 6th Workshop on Economic Analysis of Institutions, Xiamen
Hellman Fellow
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Global Scholar Fellowship

Field Work
2018
2017

TACHI-S Adient Automotive Seating, Kyowa Synchronizer Ring
EXin Diamond Technology, HG-Farley Laserlab

Recent and Scheduled Presentations
2020
2019

Stanford Conference on Education (04/06), UBC (Econ-Law, 03/05-06), AEA(01/04-05)
Northeastern (Econ, 11/14), UPittsburgh (Econ, 11/11), CIFAR (10/18), Dartmouth(Econ, 10/08), MIT (Econ, 10/01, Sloan, 09/19, 10/17), PKU (Guanghua, 06/18),
Queen Mary (Econ, 06/06), Kent (Econ, 06/05), UCL (Econ, 06/03), CSU San
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Bernardino (History, 05/23), Northwestern C-lab & mini conference (05/14, 17), UC
Davis (Econ, 05/07), UOttawa (Empirical Political Economy Workshop, 04/26),
NYU (Econ, 04/09), UChicago (History, 04/08), HKBU (Econ, 03/21), Bristol(Econ, 02/27), LSE (Government, 02/26), Warwick (Econ, 02/25), CUHK
(Asia-Pacific Studies, 1/21)
LSE (Management, 12/13), UChicago (Harris, 11/29), UT Austin (Econ, 11/15),
Urban Economics Association Meeting (10/13), Berkeley (Haas, 10/04), Peking
University (NSD, 09/14), Renmin University (Econ, 09/12), Tsinghua-NBER
Meeting (09/10), NBER Summer Institute (Income Distribution and Macro &Political Economy), Penn-UCSD Conference (06/26), Paris School of Economics(06/20), China-India Conference in Paris (06/18), Barcelona Summer Forum(Geography, Economic Policy and Political Structure), Xiamen University (WISE,05/19), HKUST (Econ, 05/18), BREAD Pre-Conference (05/10), IFN(05/07),
CESifo Conference on Employment and Social Protection (04/20), IIES (04/19),
CIFAR (04/08), Tsinghua (Econ, 01/13), AEA (01/06, discussant)Last Updated: Jan 2020.

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