Regular biography
HAO Yu is an associate professor in the Department of Economic History at the School of Economics, Peking University. His research interests include economic history, development economics, and political economy. He has published in journals such as the Australian Economic History Review and Explorations in Economic History. His teaching includes courses on intermediate microeconomics, the economic history of China, and the economic history of modern China. HAO earned his PhD in Economics from UC Davis in 2013 and has been affiliated with Peking University since 2014. He has received awards for teaching and research, including the Nandu awards for the best paper of quantitative history and Excellence in teaching.
Scholar-generated biography
Max Yu Hao is an Associate Professor in Economics at Peking University, specializing in economic history and political economy. His research explores historical social mobility, fiscal capacity, and state governance in China, with a focus on the impact of technological and institutional changes on economic development. He examines topics such as surname-based social mobility, telegraph construction, and the role of taxation in state capacity. His work also analyzes the effects of historical reforms, such as the Keju examination system, on social and political structures. Through empirical studies, he investigates how institutional frameworks shaped economic outcomes in imperial and modern China.