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Yu Bai

Division	Department of Comparative Contemporary Economics
Research Fields	Economics of Education, Development Economics
E-mail	yu.baiiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp

June 2019 −June 2022	Assistant Professor, Nanjing Audit University
July 2022 −	Project Research Associate, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

1: Studying how people's attitudes and behavior change after exogenous shocks (such as natural disasters, conflicts) in developing countries

Political tournaments and regional growth‐enhancing policies: Evidence from Chinese prefectures (with Yanjun Li). Journal of Regional Science, 62, 1358-1385 2022
The Legacy of the Great Wall (with Anastasia Arabadzhyan and Yanjun Li). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 196, 2022
Chinese Aid and Local Political Attitudes (with Yanjun Li and Yunuo Wang). Economic Modelling, 113, 2022
More suffering, more involvement? The causal effects of seismic disasters on social capital (with Yanjun Li). World Development, 138, 2021
Good bye Chiang Kai-shek? The long-lasting effects of education under the authoritarian regime in Taiwan (with Yanjun Li). Economics of Education Review, 78, 2020
Online Political Efficacy and Political Participation: A Mediation Analysis based on the Evidence from Taiwan (with Chao Chen and Rui Wang). New Media & Society, 21.8, 2019
A Sibling-Pair Analysis for Causal Effect of Education on Health (with Yanjun Li). The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 18.4, 2018

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