Peer-reviewed publications
"Do Responsive Officials or Sanctioning Officials Enhance Tax Compliance? Experimental Evidence from China." World Development (2025), with Xiaobo Lü, Lily Tsai, and Ping Zhang
"A Warning from Above: Why Authoritarian Anti-protest Propaganda Works." World Politics (2025), with Mai Truong
"Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Post-election Responses to Local Defeats." Journal of Politics (2022)
"The Role of Retributive Justice in Citizen Evaluations of Government: The Case of China." Journal of Politics (2022), with Lily Tsai and Sean (Shiyao) Liu.
"How Electoral Integrity Affects Voter Turnout in Democracies." Australian Journal of Political Science (2017), with Fernando Martínez i Coma.
Other academic writings
"Vietnam in 2024: Death in the Family." Asian Survey (2025)
"Vietnam in 2023: Political Stability and Economic Worries." Asian Survey (2024)
Selected works in progress
"Institutional Ambiguity Enables Successful Centralization: Evidence from China and Vietnam." R&R, with Warren Wenzhi Lu
"How Dictators Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too: Ballot Order Manipulation in Russia, Vietnam, and China." Under Review, with Jason Todd
"Intercalibrating Nightlight Data from VIIRS-DNB and DMSP-OLS for Social Science Research." Working Paper.
"Authoritarian Elections in the Goldilocks Zone: How Managing the Information-Certainty Trade-off Generates Unforeseen Problems." Under Review, with Jason Todd
"Clans of Compatriots: Collusion and Competition in an Autocracy," with Quoc-Anh Do, Edmund Malesky, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen
"Transnational Impact of Chinese Propaganda on Inter-group Relations Overseas," with Jeremy Siow and Tony Zirui Yang
"Countering Local Data Misreport," with Handi Li and Shengqiao Lin
Software Packages
mediation: an R package for causal mediation analysis, with Dustin Tingley, Teppei Yamamoto, Kentaro Hirose, Luke Keele, Kosuke Imai, and Weihuang Wong
paths: an R package for path-specific causal effects, with Teppei Yamamoto and Xiang Zhou