Author: Cameron Campbell
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CGED-Q JSL 1760-1798 Draft Release
We have made available a draft release of the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu (JSL) 1760-1798 data at the HKUST Dataspace: https://dataspace.hkust.edu.hk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.14711/dataset/E9GKRS We expect to release a final version later in the year reflected corrections to any problems identified by users. We are grateful to Xue Qing and Bijia Chen who spotted issues with…
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Hao Dong publishes a new Chinese article in 社会学研究 on the effect of China’s cooling-off period policy on trends in divorce registration
Hao Dong has just published a single-authored paper in the top Chinese-language sociology journal 社会学研究 (Sociological Studies) titled 此情或可待：“离婚冷静期”规定对离婚登记数量趋势的影响 (A Wait Perhaps Worthwhile：The Influence of a “Cooling-off” Period on Trends in Divorce Registration) Here is the Chinese abstract and English translation: 本文关注“离婚冷静期”规定对离婚登记数量趋势的影响，间接探讨了冲动等不可观测主观因素在我国离婚决策中的角色。基于民政部2018—2021年省—季度统计数据，辅以国家统计局、裁判文书网、百度指数等数据，本研究通过事件研究和双重差分等政策评估方法交叉验证发现，“冷静期”使得各省各季度离婚登记数量平均减少1.03~1.32万对，较前三年降低了33%~42%。在以往复婚较普遍、青年离婚占比较大、对“冷静期”等离婚相关信息搜索较多的地区降幅更大，揭示了部分潜在作用机制。 This study examines the influence of a 30-day “cooling-off” period policy on trends…
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Hao Dong publishes a new article in Demography on post-1900 trends in educational assortative marriage in China
Hao Dong and his collaborator Yu Xie have published a paper in Demography titled “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China Over the Past Century.” Here is the abstract: In the past century, China has undergone rapid and dramatic social and economic changes. This article describes trends in educational assortative marriages of cohorts born in…
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Hao Dong publishes a new article in PNAS on social mobility trends in post-revolution China
Hao Dong, together with Yu Xie, Xiang Zhou, and Xi Song published a new article “Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Hao is a co-corresponding author on this article. Xi Song is an alumnae of the Lee-Campbell Group and has previously co-authored with Cameron…
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Hao Dong publishes a new article in the History of the Family on adopted children’s survival differentials and gender differences in Tokugawa Japan
Hao Dong and our long-time collaborator and friend Satomi Kurosu have just published a paper in the History of the Family titled “Gendered survival differentials of adopted children in northeast Japan, 1716–1870” Here is the abstract: Adoption was an important strategy for early-modern Japanese families to function and continue. This study is the first to systematically…
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University of Michigan Press publishes Matt Noellert’s New Book on Communist Land Reform using the CRRD-LR
Matt Noellert’s first book, Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China, was published in September 2020 by the University of Michigan Press and is now available for ordering online in various formats. Power over Property is based on Matt’s PhD dissertation and uses the CRRD-LR dataset to demonstrate the…
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Matt Noellert begins new position as Associate Professor of Asian Economic History at Hitotsubashi University
Lee-Campbell Group member, Matthew Noellert, has taken up a new Associate Professor position at Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan, beginning September 1, 2020. Hitotsubashi specializes in social sciences and is one of the best universities in Japan for economic research. Hitotsubashi is also famous for being one of the top four most selective universities…
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Matt Noellert awarded Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
Matt Noellert was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Program in China Studies for the 2017-18 academic year. This fellowship supports an academic year released from teaching to engage in research and preparation of an academic monograph on China. Here is the announcement of Matt’s award. Matt…