Yiqing Xu

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor

9500 Gilman Drive

Code 0521

La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

United States

http://yiqingxu.org

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1.

China's Ideological Spectrum

Forthcoming, The Journal of Politics
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2017
Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu
Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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ideology, authoritarianism, political cleavage, China, factor analysis

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How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice

Political Analysis, forthcoming
Number of pages: 150 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2018
Jens Hainmueller, Jonathan Mummolo and Yiqing Xu
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Princeton University and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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interaction effects, regression models, conditional hypothesis

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Generalized Synthetic Control Method: Causal Inference with Interactive Fixed Effects Models

Political Analysis, Forthcoming, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2015-1
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2016
Yiqing Xu
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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causal inference, TSCS data, factor analysis, difference-in-differences, synthetic control method, interactive fixed effects

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Informal Institutions, Collective Action, and Public Investment in Rural China

Forthcoming, American Political Science Review, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2014-6
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2014
Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Peking University - China Center for Economic Research (CCER)
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informal institutions, public goods expenditure, collective action, village elections, accountability

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Ebalance: A Stata Package for Entropy Balancing

Journal of Statistical Software Vol. 54, Issue 7, September 2013
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2014
Jens Hainmueller and Yiqing Xu
Stanford University - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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causal inference, reweighting, matching, Stata

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Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China

American Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming), MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2014-11
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2016
Jidong Chen, Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu
Tsinghua University - School of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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authoritarian rule, accountability, responsiveness, field experiment

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Outspoken Insiders: Political Connections and Citizen Participation in Authoritarian China

MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2014-16
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2017
Lily Tsai and Yiqing Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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authoritarianism, mobilization, complaint making, resource model, state-society relations, political connections, political participation

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Information Manipulation and Reform in Authoritarian Regimes

Forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2014-21
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 18 May 2015
Jidong Chen and Yiqing Xu
Tsinghua University - School of Public Policy and Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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propaganda, censorship, information disclosure, reform, authoritarian governance, institutional design, game theory

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Why Do Authoritarian Regimes Allow Citizens to Voice Opinions Publicly?

Journal of Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2016
Jidong Chen and Yiqing Xu
Tsinghua University - School of Public Policy and Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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Authoritarian Governance, Public Communication, Horizontal Communication, China

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Awakening Leviathan: The Effect of Democracy on State Capacity, 1960-2009

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2017
Erik Wang and Yiqing Xu
Princeton University, Department of Politics, Students and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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democracy, state capacity, development, democratic diffusion, causal inference, instrument variable, panel data

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Trajectory Balancing: A General Reweighting Approach to Causal Inference With Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Aug 2018
Chad Hazlett and Yiqing Xu
UCLA and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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causal inference, time-series cross-sectional data, panel data, difference-in-differences, synthetic control, interactive fixed effects, kernel balancing, reweighting

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Incremental Democracy: The Policy Effects of the Partisan Composition of State Government

MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2015-24
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 29 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2016
Devin Caughey, Christopher Warshaw and Yiqing Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science, George Washington University - Department of Political Science and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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policy, partisan, state, government, control

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Estimating Poverty Rates in Target Populations: An Assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard and Alternative Approaches

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7793
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Sep 2016
Alexis Diamond, Michael Gill, Miguel Angel Rebolledo Dellepiane, Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha and Yiqing Xu
Harvard University, Harvard University, World Bank - International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank, World Bank and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science
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Inequality

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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

NBER Working Paper No. w21058
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Apr 2015
Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Yale University - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Peking University - China Center for Economic Research (CCER)
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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10515
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Apr 2015
Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Yale University - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Peking University - China Center for Economic Research (CCER)
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Civic Capital, History, Institutions, Public Goods, Trust