Research 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

On historical political economy:

Mitchell, Austin and Weiwen Yin. “Political Centralization, Career Incentives, and Local Economic Growth in Edo Japan.” Explorations in Economic History 85 (2023): 101446.

Yin, Weiwen. “Climate Shocks, Political Institutions, and Nomadic Invasions in Early Modern East Asia.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64.6 (2020): 1043-1069.

On computational social science and political behavior: 

Yin, Weiwen, Weidong Huo, and Danyang Lin. “The Effects of State Coercion on Voting Outcome in Protest Movements: A Causal Forest Approach.“ Political Science Research and Methods 11.3 (2023): 645 - 653. 

Zheng, Li, and Weiwen Yin. “Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity: A Causal Forests Approach.” Research & Politics 10.1 (2023).

Fu, Ronan, Weiwen Yin, and Enze Han. “The Human Cost of War: An Experimental Study of Taiwanese Attitudes Towards Casualties.”  Forthcoming at Conflict Management and Peace Science.
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On international political economy: 

Betz, Timm, Amy Pond, and Weiwen Yin. “Investment Agreement Portfolios and the Fragmentation of Firms across Countries.“ Review of International Organizations 16.4 (2021): 755–791. 

Yin, Weiwen. “Domestic Arbitral Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 21.3 (2021): 401-429.

Wu, Jiwei (Ph.D. student) and Weiwen Yin. “Initiative as Institution: How the Belt and Road Initiative Shapes the Participation of Chinese Firms in Global Value Chains.” Forthcoming at Chinese Journal of International Politics.


Working Papers

Zheng, Li and Weiwen Yin, A Robust Estimation Approach for Conditional Marginal Effects with Binary Treatments (June 06, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5207251
 

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