Xiaoxue Zhao

Economic Growth Center Phone: (203) 508-0908 Yale University Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 208269 https://sites.google.com/site/xiaoxuezhao/ New Haven, CT 06520-8269

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Economics, Yale University, 2016- Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2014-2016 Visiting Research Fellow, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Fall 2011

EDUCATION Ph.D., Yale University, Economics, May 2014 Dissertation: Land Institutions under Communal Tenure: Evidence from China Committee: Mark Rosenzweig, Nancy Qian, Christopher Udry B.A., Yale University, magna cum laude, Economics & Political Science (both with Distinctions), May 2008

FIELDS OF INTERESTS Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics

PUBLICATIONS “Do Kinship Networks Strengthen Private Property Rights? Evidence from Rural China” (2014), with Taisu Zhang, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 11, 505.

“Technology and Human Development” (2013), with Gustav Ranis, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 14, No. 4, 467-482.

WORKING PAPERS “To Reallocate or Not? Optimal Land Institutions in Rural Economics: Evidence from China,” R&R at Review of Economic Studies.

“Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from China,” with Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng and Nancy Qian, NBER Working Paper No. 19733, R&R at Journal of Comparative Economics.

“State Capacity and Economic Development under Capital Mobility: Evidence from China,” with Yu Liu.

WORK IN PROGRESS “Elections, Political Incentives and Land Reallocations”

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“State Capacity and the Choice of Markets: The Effect of Domestic VAT Enforcement on Firms’ Exports in China” (with Haichao Fan, Yu Liu and Larry Qiu)

"Cooperatives and Market Integration of Smallholder Farmers: a Randomized Experiment" (with Jie Bai and Ruidai Yang)

“Agricultural Productivity, Returns to Scale, and Allocative Efficiency: Evidence from a Land Transfer Reform in China” (with Jie Bai and Paul T. Scott)

“Kinship Networks and Land Distribution in Chinese Villages” (with Taisu Zhang)

PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $62,985 (2013-14) The MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant, $15,000 (2013-14) The Richard J. Bernhard Fellowship (2012-13) The Sasakawa Research Award, $25,450 (2011, 2013) The Austin F. Howard Fellowship (2011-12) The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (2010) Yale Economic Growth Center Prize (2008-2012) Yale University Fellowship for Doctoral Study (2008-2014) The William M. Massee Prize for top Economics major, Yale College (2008) Phi Beta Kappa (2007)

LANGUAGES English, Chinese (native speaker), French (intermediate)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Microfoundations of Growth in China (Econ 442), Yale University, Spring 2017

REFEREE SERVICES Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics (x2), Economic Development and Cultural Change (x2), Journal of Urban Economics, Development and Change, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Development Effectiveness, Economics of Transition, Economic Systems, Economics Letters, FLASH Research Programme, Health Education Journal, Population Research and Policy Review, Public Choice, Social Science and Medicine, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2017 Yale University Leitner Seminar (New Haven, Feb.), NBER Chinese Economy Meeting (Cambridge, Apr.), CESI (Beijing, Aug.), UC San Diego GPS (San Diego, Oct.) 2015 John Hopkins SAIS (Washington D.C., Oct.), NBER Chinese Economy Meeting (Cambridge, Apr.), CES NA Conference (Ann Harbor, Mar.) 2014 Duke University (Durham, Sep.), Syracuse University (Syracuse, Feb.), Cornerstone Research (Washington D.C., Feb.) 2012 NBER Summer Institute, Entrepreneurship Meeting (Cambridge, Jul.) 2