Research 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

On historical political economy:

Wang, Minzhao, Austin Mitchell, and Weiwen Yin. “Foreign Faith and Rising State: An Examination of State-Building Dynamics in Late 16th Century Japan.” Forthcoming at Political Science Research and Methods.

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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