I study how automation reshapes governance by changing the way governments produce data, exercise discretion, and shape public trust. My research focuses on environmental governance in China. I also work on causal inference and survey methodology. [CV]
Working papers
When Automation Builds Trust: Information Credibility and Authoritarian Rule
Getting the Counterfactual Right in Survey-Timing Designs
with Jieun Oh, Yusaku Horiuchi, and Yuki Shiraito
Co-opting Automation: How Technology Reorganizes Political Discretion in China
Book manuscript
Automated: Why Governments Bind Themselves to Machines
Publications
Why the Average Treatment Effect for the Overlap Population (ATO) Matters for Natural Experiments
with Kevin M. Quinn
Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis, forthcoming
What to Observe When Assuming Selection on Observables
with Kevin M. Quinn, Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin
Political Analysis, 34(1): 1-22, 2026 [code]
Where Are the Missing Dead? How Metrics Management Mitigates Official Data Misreporting in China
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 4(2): 231-258, 2023 [paper]
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis
with Yuki Shiraito
Political Analysis, 31(3): 380-395, 2023 [code]
The Clash of Traditional Values: Opposition to Female Monarchs
with Kenneth Mori McElwain and Yuki Shiraito
European Political Science Review, 15(2): 291-310, 2023
Socialist Models of Development
with Andrew Kilmister
In Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2021