@article{86470be8b1544b86b9327caa30a02726,
title = "Meritocracy in autocracies: origins and consequences",
abstract = "Prize winner of the 2020 Asia-Pacific Prize in Economic History, awarded by the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand for the best dissertation in Asia-Pacific Economic History.",
author = "Weijia Li",
note = "Funding Information: . Support was provided by the University of California at Berkeley, the Helen Gan and Richard Aston Fellowship for Chinese Studies and the John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies Funding Information: This dissertation was completed at the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, in 2018 under the supervision of Gerard Roland (chair), Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan, and Yuriy Gorodnichenko. Weijia Li is also grateful for the mentorship from Peter Lorentzen and Yang Xie. Support was provided by the University of California at Berkeley, the Helen Gan and Richard Aston Fellowship for Chinese Studies and the John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/aehr.12197",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
pages = "250--258",
journal = "Australian Economic History Review",
issn = "0004-8992",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "2",
}