The Political Economy of Religious Development in China: A Spatial Approach

Event time: 
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 11:30am to 1:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 202 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Adam Liu is a Postdoctoral Aassociate at the MacMillan Center, Yale University. His research thus far has centered on how politics and political institutions affect economic outcomes. His book-style dissertation—drawing from two years of fieldwork and a unique dataset that covers the spatial information of all Chinese banks and credit unions built since 1949—seeks to distill the political logic of banking development in China and its economic consequences. At Yale, besides working on the book project, he is also collaborating on a new project on the political economy of religion in China, developing and analyzing the largest ever geocoded dataset of all religious sites built in China from the 19thcentury to the present. In July 2019, he will be joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor.

Open to: 
General Public

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