Melanie Meng Xue

Joel Mokyr at Nick Crafts 70th birthday conference in 2019 at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

Big day for LSE and Economic History! Philippe Aghion (LSE Econ), Peter Howitt and Economic Historian Joel Mokyr were awarded this year's Sverige Riksbank (Nobel) Prize. On top of that, our recent PhD graduate (2024)
@juliuskoschnick.bsky.social has been cited in the scientific statement 🥳

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL).

I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome!

seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire - Economic History Society In this blog post, Melanie Meng Xue of the London School of Economics & Boxiao Zhang of the Renmin University Of China introduce their new working paper, “The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmativ...

Now on the Long Run: 'Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire' by Melanie Meng Xue (LSE) & Boxiao Zhang (Renmin)
ehs.org.uk/imperial-chi...

Going there next weekend..

Melanie Meng Xue on X: "Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇" / X Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇

Cool 🧵 by @melanie-xue.bsky.social elsewhere — reminded me of buying a book called “China’s Examination Hell” for someone starting NY bar exam prep.

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Ruling and Healing: Managing Health and Empire in Qing China 1644-1912

How did the Qing use medicine to strengthen the empire? Chinese medical and political/economic history... join us at the IHR/online on Tuesday 6 May to hear Yitong Qiu (UCL). register www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind-speed data are used to construct a gravi....

This #ScholarSunday take some time to read my latest paper in the EHR

✅ Iron age trade
✅ Reconstructed trade routes
✅ The resource curse
✅ Ancient export led growth
✅ Verifying Pliny’s great complaint

A throwback to a more globalised time...

#EconSky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

28/03/2025 Melanie Xu – QUCEH Seminar Series - CEPH - Centre for Economics, Policy and History Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China  Abstract: This paper investigates how ideas influence political institutions over time, focusing on Wang Yangming’s philosophy and it...

We look forward to welcoming @melanie-xue.bsky.social of @lseechist.bsky.social to @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for Friday's @quceh.bsky.social seminar:
​Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China
ceph.ie/events/28-03... #EconSky #Economics #EconomicHistory #NSRPproject

Tomorrow Xizi Luo will present our joint work at the Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop! Looking forward to it