Research

Publication

• Zhenhuan Lei and Junlong Zhou. 2022. “Private Returns to Public Investment: Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment in China.” The Journal of Politics, 84(1): 455-469.
  • [SSRN][Gated][Replication files]
• Zhenhuan Lei and Jeffrey B. Nugent. 2018. “Coordinating China’s Economic Growth Strategy via Its Government-Controlled Association for Private Firms.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 46: 1273-1293.
  • [SSRN] [Gated]

Working Papers

• “Judicial Independence through Recentralization: Evidence from China,” with Yishuang Li (NYU). 
• “The Fiscal Logic of Responsiveness: Public Finance, Elections, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China.”
• “The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks, Infrastructure Investment, and the Varieties of Economic Development Strategies in China.”
  • Invited to revise and resubmit to Comparative Political Studies. 
• “Local Influence in the Central Government: Political Alignment and the Allocation of Stock Market Resources in China,” with Yishuang Li (NYU).
  • Invited to revise and resubmit to the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.