Haikun Zhan

Haikun Zhan is a final-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in the fields of Political Economics, Development Economics, and Economic History.

She is on the 2021/2022 job market and will be available for virtual interviews on demand.

In her job market paper, she uses a uniquely detailed panel dataset spanning a thousand years to examine whether a strong centralized state facilitated the development of local institutions in Imperial China.

She also has working papers studying the causes and consequences of civil conflicts.

To get more information (working papers, CV, and others), please visit her personal website.