Research Interest: 

• Political Methodology (Causal Inference, Statistical Learning and Measurement Errors),
• ​Comparative Political Behavior (China and Developing Nations)

1. Informing Average Treatment Effects with Post-treatment Variables
   - Best Poster Award, Society for Political Methodology 2019
   - Link to APSA version
   - Link to latest version
   - Slides

2. What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-level Evidence from China (with Lily L. Tsai and Minh Trinh)
   - The Journal of Politics Volume 84, Number 1 January 2022
   - Link to earlier SSRN version

3. How Much Should You Trust Your Power Calculation Results? Power Analysis as an Estimation Problem (with Teppei Yamamoto)
   - Link to PolMeth version

4. Beyond Topics: Learning for Texts as a Measurement

5. Winning Hearts and Minds: Does Social Media Propaganda Increase the Affective Legitimacy of the Party State? (with Kaiping Zhang)
   - Top Paper Award (Faculty), International Communication Association Political Communication Division 2023
   - submitted and under review

6. Experimental Impacts of a Large-Scale Home Literacy Intervention on Parental Literacy Beliefs (with Si Chen and Catherine Snow)
​   - Under review