Zhai Runzhuo

                Title: Assistant Professor

                Office: Mingde Main Building, Room 0504A

             Tel:           Email: runzhuo.zhai@ruc.edu.cn

                                

Research Interests: 

Long-term Economic Growth, Agricultural Economic History, Cliometrics

Biography:

  Zhai Runzhuo holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from Keble College, University of Oxford. He is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Agricultural and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, and a Young Scholar under the Renmin University "Outstanding Scholar" Program (B position). He was supervised by Professor Stephen Broadberry, a Fellow of the British Academy and a renowned international economic historian. His current research interests include: Chinese Agricultural Economic History, Economic Growth History, Historical National Accounts and Living Standards, the Great Divergence between East and West, Historical State Capacity and Chinese Fiscal History, and Cliometrics.

Publications：

1. Zhai, Runzhuo, and Zhaohui Lou. “Chinese Agricultural Output and TFP: 1661–2019.” Economics Letters 213 (2022): 110415.

   
   

2. 唐昱茵,高岭,翟润卓.“风起于青萍之末：大英帝国的黄昏 (1888–1913) 的新解释.”经济思想史学刊 （接收）.

   
   

3. 高岭,翟润卓*,唐昱茵.“马克思的劳动强度理论及其当代发展.”经济学家 1, no.7 (2022): 15-23.

Working Papers：

1. Gao, Ling, Yuyin Tang, and Runzhuo Zhai*. “Did An Industrious Revolution Happen in China? A Survey towards Chinese Working Class, 1680-2012.”

   
   

2. Guan, Hanhui, Debin Ma, and Runzhuo Zhai. “China’s Long-term Fiscal Capacity: A Millennial Measure and Analysis, 997–1911.”

   
   

3. Hu, Sijie, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Where Were the Missing Girls: Re-Estimating Daughters’ Survival in Chinese Lineages, 1350–1900.”

   
   

4. Luan, Xiaoyang, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Confucianizing the Spirit of Capitalism: Commercialization, Bureaucratic Culture, and Medieval China Denying Utilitarianism.”

   
   

5. Zhai, Runzhuo. “Toward the Great Divergence: Agricultural Growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393–1953.”

   
   

6. Zhai, Runzhuo. “Dating the Great Divergence: Economic Growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393–1953.”

   
   

7. Zhai, Runzhuo. “The Different Face of the Great Divergence: GDP of Pearl River Delta, 1729–1936.”

   
   

8. 徐之茵，翟润卓，伏霖，管汉晖.“北京上海广州长期生活水平：基于福利比例的比较研究.”