SNG Tuan Hwee

SNG Tuan Hwee

© NUS Dept of Economics | Photography by Lionel Lin

SNG Tuan Hwee

Associate Professor

PhD, Northwestern University

TEACHING AREAS

Economic History
Microeconomics

RESEARCH AREAS

Economic History
Political Economy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. With Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Mark Koyama, and Youhong Lin. Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming).

The Size of Polities in Historical Political Economy. With Chiaki Moriguchi. Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (forthcoming).

Did the Communist State Contribute to China’s Rural Growth? With Yi Lu and Mona Luan. Explorations in Economic History, Volume 75, 101315, 2020.

Are China’s Provincial Boundaries Misaligned? With Pei Zhi Chia, Chen-Chieh Feng, and Yi-Chen Wang. Applied Geography, Volume 98, 52–65, 2018.

Unified China and Divided Europe. With Chiu Yu Ko and Mark Koyama. International Economic Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, 285–327, 2018.

Asia’s Little Divergence: State Capacity in China and Japan before 1850. With Chiaki Moriguchi. Journal of Economic Growth Volume 19, Issue 4, 439–470, 2014.

Size and Dynastic Decline: The Principal-Agent Problem in Late Imperial China 1700–1850. Explorations in Economic History Volume 54, 107–127, 2014.