James Kai Sing Kung

Economics and Econometrics · 2000–2020

A researcher in the Science corpus: 11 papers; trusts 55 researchers and is trusted by 20 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Economics and Econometrics — 78 citations into it; #15,947 of 23,481 by trust here, #10,133 by citations
• Sociology and Political Science — 63 citations into it; #9,158 of 22,756 by trust here, #5,938 by citations
• Political Science and International Relations — 58 citations into it; #628 of 4,701 by trust here, #420 by citations
• Demography — 44 citations into it; #2,395 of 4,236 by trust here, #1,712 by citations
• Accounting — 15 citations into it
• Soil Science — 12 citations into it; #233 of 2,166 by trust here, #794 by citations
• Gender Studies — 9 citations into it; #1,254 of 4,924 by trust here, #1,453 by citations
• Information Systems — 8 citations into it

Whom James Kai Sing Kung trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Ruixue Jia
2. Daron Acemoglu
3. Timothy J. Besley
4. Hongbin Li
5. Yaohui Zhao
6. Raymond J. Fisman
7. Torsten Persson
8. Sascha O. Becker
9. Esther Duflo
10. Robert D. Putnam

Who trusts James Kai Sing Kung overall

1. K. Deininger
2. T. Banks
3. Ting Chen
4. Songqing Jin
5. Ruixue Jia
6. Solomon Hsiang
7. Hualin Xie
8. J. Giles
9. D. Ali
10. J. Andreas

Papers from James Kai Sing Kung's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers James Kai Sing Kung trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
2. Estimating the Value of Political Connections
3. Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style
4. Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
5. Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach (Journal of Political Economy)
6. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
7. The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
8. How Much War Will we see?
9. Federalism with and without Political Centralization: China Versus Russia (International Monetary Fund Staff Papers)
10. Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the US

Their papers

• Climate Shocks and Sino-nomadic Conflict (2011) — 174 citations
• Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China ☆ (2016) — 272 citations
• Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China (2015) — 275 citations
• The Causes of China’s Great Leap Famine, 1959–1961* (2003) — 142 citations
• Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market* (2018) — 363 citations
• Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Civil Examination System (2020) — 273 citations
• DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE WHILE SPREADING GOD'S MESSAGE: PROTESTANTISM AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN CHINA, 1840–1920 (2015) — 157 citations
• Can Cultural Norms Reduce Conflicts? Confucianism and Peasant Rebellions in (2014) — 215 citations
• The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine (2010) — 260 citations
• Off-farm labor markets and the emergence of land rental markets in rural China (2002) — 308 citations
• Common Property Rights and Land Reallocations in Rural China: Evidence from a Village Survey (2000) — 136 citations