Research in Progress
Coauthor's affiliation is the current one. Email me for any inaccessible paper or unlinked working papers.
I am looking for a part-time RA (fluent in any two languages among English, Chinese, and Korean) with a social science background (political science, economics, sociology, or public policy) to work on new datasets. Please email me (jyhong.at.ust.dot.hk) if interested.
Working Papers
Work in Progress
Working Papers
"Conditional Cross-Border Diffusion of Violence in a Strong Authoritarian State" Revise and Resubmit
"Rights and Deaths: Government Reactions to the Pandemic" (with José Antonio Cheibub, Texas A&M and Adam Przeworski, NYU)
"Effects of Dictatorial Development Policy on Authoritarian and Democratic Election: Evidence from
South Korea" (with SunKyoung Park, Incheon National University and Hyun Joo Yang, Sogang University)
"Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?" (with Cecilia Mo, UC Berkeley and Christopher Paik, NYUAD)
"Project Finance Loans, Political Institutions, and Regime Survival" (with Ilker Karaca, Iowa State Univ. and Ruilin Lai, HKUST)
Work in Progress
Destructive Origins of Developmental States: Regime-Sponsored Violence, State Building, and Eco-
nomic Development in East Asia
-- book project in progress
Authoritarian Resource Curse: Resource-Driven Development and Social Welfare under Dictatorship
-- book project in progress
Natural Resources, Ethnic Autonomy and Inter-Ethnic Inequality in China (with Wenhui Yang, UT Austin)
International Remittance, Dissolution of Community, and Local Development: Evidence from Chinese Korean Migration
Occupiers and Owners: Legacies of Colonial Enterprises (with Christopher Paik, NYUAD)
The Effect of State-building on the Salience of Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Southwest
China (with Jun Fang, University of Michigan and Jipeng Zhang, SWUFE)
Chinese Project Finance (with Ilker Karaca, Iowa State Univ. and Ruilin Lai, HKUST)