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Maoliang Ye

Southern University of Science and Technology

Associate Professor

College of Business

Rm. 525, Taizhou Building

Shenzhen, 518055

China

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

13

DOWNLOADS

702

TOTAL CITATIONS

5

Ideas:
“  1. Pro-social behavior (public goods, cooperation, coordination, trust), team incentives 2. Quality of life, subjective well-being (e.g., happiness, life satisfaction, mental well-being) 3. Social preferences (e.g., altruism, reciprocity, inequity/equity aversion, social status) 4. Economic and political psychology/attitudes (e.g., inequality, fairness, redistribution), public opinion, media 5. Income distribution, charity and redistribution Website: http://scholar.harvard.edu/maoliangye  ”

Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

Early-life Exposure to Famine Decreased Subjective Well-being and Mental Health in Adulthood with Heterogeneities

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 May 2022 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2023
Qianping Ren, LiYan Wang and Maoliang Ye
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Shenzhen University and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Famine; Public Disasters; Early-life Experience; Subjective well-being; Mental Health; Psychological Trauma; Difference-in-differences; China

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Public Participation in Democracy, Local Accountability and Happiness: Evidence from Rural China

(2022) Governance, 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12738
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Nov 2022
Yongzheng Liu, LiYan Wang and Maoliang Ye
Renmin University of China, Shenzhen University and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Public participation; Grassroots democracy; Local accountability; Governance performance; Happiness; China

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Socially Irresponsible Information Reporting Behavior during a Pandemic: Underlying Economic Preferences and Interventions

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 06 May 2022 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2025
Xinghua Wang and Maoliang Ye
Southern University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Southern University of Science and Technology
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information reporting, pandemic, risk attitudes, behavioral interventions, truth-telling preferences, social preferences

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One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Sam Asher. 'One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?' Management Science (2020): 113-129
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 May 2022
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shandong University - Center for Economic Research, IZA Institute of Labor Economics and World Bank
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gradualism, coordination, laboratory experiment, belief-based learning

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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106986
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 May 2025
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Bryant University, Shanghai International Studies University and Southern University of Science and Technology
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productivity, team incentive, compensation schemes, threshold, equal sharing, guilt aversion

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Donations Make People Happier: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake

Social Indicators Research, Vol.132, No. 1, p. 1-20, 2017
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 May 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Qianping Ren and Maoliang Ye
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Happiness; Donation; Wenchuan Earthquake

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Twins, Income, and Happiness: Evidence from China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(25):e2221884120, 2023. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2221884120.
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2023
Maoliang Ye, Junsen Zhang and Hongbin Li
Southern University of Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics and Stanford University
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income, happiness, twins, fixed effects, instrumental variables

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Parental Preferences, Production Technologies, and Provision for Progeny

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 May 2022
Maoliang Ye and Junjian Yi
Southern University of Science and Technology and Peking University
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Intrahousehold human capital investments, Reinforce, Compensate, Parental preferences, Production technology

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Mind the Gap: Disparity in Redistributive Preference between Political Elites and the Public in China

European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 50
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 May 2022
Weihua An and Maoliang Ye
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Inequality; Redistributive preference; Progressive taxation; Redistributive expenditure; Political elites; Bureaucracy; China

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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: A Real-Effort Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w30427
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Bryant University, Shanghai International Studies University and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Audit Centralization and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w34776
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Feb 2026
Nanjing University - School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) and Southern University of Science and Technology
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Losing Children and Mental Well-Being: Evidence From China

Applied Economics Letters,Vol. 24, 2016
Posted: 01 Jun 2022
Qianping Ren and Maoliang Ye
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Southern University of Science and Technology

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Mental health; happiness; losing children; one-childpolicy; elderly-care policy

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Building Cooperation through Gradualism in Finitely Repeated Investment Games

Posted: 03 May 2022 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022
Xiangting Hu, Yangbo Song and Maoliang Ye
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) - School of Economics and Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Southern University of Science and Technology

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Gradualism; Investment; Trust; Reciprocation; Cooperation; Repeated Games; Laboratory Experiments