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Drawing on sources like Civil War records and ancient Chinese poetry, two economic historians discuss how their work informs contemporary debates on the economic dimensions of gender and race.

In this blog post, Melanie Meng Xue of the London School of Economics & Boxiao Zhang of the Renmin University Of China introduce their new working paper, “The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmativ...

Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇

This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind-speed data are used to construct a gravi....

Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China  Abstract: This paper investigates how ideas influence political institutions over time, focusing on Wang Yangming’s philosophy and it...