Faculty Profiles - HAN Li | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Li HAN
韓莉

PhD in Economics
Harvard University, 2008

Associate Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 2358 7838
lihan@ust.hk
Room 3390
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ORCID

0000-0003-4143-5513

Scopus ID

24466392300

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision Space used

Research Interest

Development economics
Labor economics
Political economy
Economics of education

Publications

All Years 29 2025 0 2024 2 2023 3 2022 1 2021 1 2020 2 2019 20

2024 2

A Ballot for A Bullet

Han, Li; Chen, Ting
Conference paper

Ignorance is Whose Bliss: The Repeal of Compulsory Pre-Marital Health Examinations and Marital Outcomes in Rural China

Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng; Zhang, Mingang
Conference paper

2023 3

Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China's Primary Land Market

The Economic Journal, v. 133, (649), January 2023, p. 70-97
Chen, Ting; Han, Li; Kung, James; Xie, Jiaxin
Article

The Dammed Gender: Water, Dams, and Female Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Han, Li; Yin, Yabin; Lam, Pak Hong
Conference paper

The Media and Foreign Powers: How Market Access Affects News Reporting?

Han, Li; Chen, Heng
Conference paper

2022 1

How does matching uncertainty affect marital surplus? Theory and Evidence from China

Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng; Zhang, Mingang
Conference paper

2021 1

Do the media bow to foreign economic powers? Evidence from a news website crackdown

Han, Li; Chen, Heng
Conference paper

2020 2

Can Conditional Grants Attract Better Students? Evidence from Chinese Teachers' Colleges

Economics of Education Review, v. 78, October 2020, article number 102034
Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin
Article

Marketing Communist Party membership in China

Public Choice, 18 June 2020
Han, Li; Li, Tao
Article

2019 3

How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v.139, June 2019, p. 109-121
Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng
Article

Estimating the intergenerational transmission of political status: a method based on the fashion cycle of given names

Han, Li; Li, Tao
Conference paper

Whitening the Corruption Gains through the Revolving Door

Han, Li
Conference paper

2017 1

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

Economic Development and Cultural Change, v. 65, (2), January 2017, p. 297-337
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui
Article

2016 3

Are Political Connections Corruption: Evidence from China's Land Market

Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting; Kung, James Kai Sing; Han, Li
Conference paper

Are Political Connections Corruption? Evidence from China’s Land Market

Kung, James K.S.; Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting
Conference paper

Trading Favors: Untangling the Web of Corruption between Public Officials and Firms in China's land market

Chen, Ting; Xie, Jiaxin; Han, Li; Kung, James K.S.
Conference paper

2015 2

Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v. 116, September 2015, p. 89-104
Han, Li; Kung, James Kai-Sing
Article

How Status Inheritance Rules Affect Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from Urban China

Economic Journal, v. 125, (589), December 2015, p. 1850-1887
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui
Article

2014 2

Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages

Public Choice, v. 158, (1-2), 2014, p. 221-242
Han, Li
Article

Encouraging classroom peer interactions: Evidence from Chinese migrant schools

Journal of Public Economics, v. 111, March 2014, p. 29-45
Li, Tad; Han, Li; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, Scott
Article

2013 1

Is Centralized Teacher Deployment More Equitable? Evidence from Rural China

China Economic Review, v. 24, (1), March 2013, p. 65-76
Han, Li
Article

2011 3

The global auction: the broken promises of education, jobs, and incomes

Educational review, v. 63, 2011, p. 519-520
Han, Li
Article

How Intergenerational Status Transmission Affects Marriage Segregation: Evidence from China

NBER-CCER Annual Conference 2011, Beijing, June 29-30, 2011
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui
Conference paper

Urbanizing China: the Changing Fiscal Incentives of Local Governments

Public Finance Issues in China 2011; organized by Roger Gordon and Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 27-28, 2011
Han, Li; Kung, James
Conference paper

2010 3

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

China Economic Society annual conference, Xiamen, China; Xiamen University: June 23-25, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

Northeastern Universities Development Consortium; MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; November 6-7, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

Peer Tutoring and Pay-for-Grade Incentive Programs: Field Experiment Evidences from Chinese Primary Schools

China Economics Society 2010 Annual Meeting, organized by Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; June 19 - 21, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

2009 2

The Gender Difference of Peer Influence in Higher Education

Economics of Education Review, v. 28, (1), 2009, p. 129-134
Han, Li; Li, Tao
Article

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentive: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

The Northeastern Universities Development Economics Consortium, 2009. Organizer: Tufts University, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. November 7 - 8, 2009
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui
Conference paper

Conference paper 2

A Ballot for A Bullet

Han, Li; Chen, Ting

Ignorance is Whose Bliss: The Repeal of Compulsory Pre-Marital Health Examinations and Marital Outcomes in Rural China

Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng; Zhang, Mingang

Article 1

Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China's Primary Land Market

The Economic Journal, v. 133, (649), January 2023, p. 70-97
Chen, Ting; Han, Li; Kung, James; Xie, Jiaxin

Conference paper 2

The Dammed Gender: Water, Dams, and Female Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Han, Li; Yin, Yabin; Lam, Pak Hong

The Media and Foreign Powers: How Market Access Affects News Reporting?

Han, Li; Chen, Heng

Conference paper 1

How does matching uncertainty affect marital surplus? Theory and Evidence from China

Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng; Zhang, Mingang

Conference paper 1

Do the media bow to foreign economic powers? Evidence from a news website crackdown

Han, Li; Chen, Heng

Article 2

Can Conditional Grants Attract Better Students? Evidence from Chinese Teachers' Colleges

Economics of Education Review, v. 78, October 2020, article number 102034
Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin

Marketing Communist Party membership in China

Public Choice, 18 June 2020
Han, Li; Li, Tao

Article 1

How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v.139, June 2019, p. 109-121
Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng

Conference paper 2

Estimating the intergenerational transmission of political status: a method based on the fashion cycle of given names

Han, Li; Li, Tao

Whitening the Corruption Gains through the Revolving Door

Han, Li

Article 1

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

Economic Development and Cultural Change, v. 65, (2), January 2017, p. 297-337
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui

Conference paper 3

Are Political Connections Corruption: Evidence from China's Land Market

Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting; Kung, James Kai Sing; Han, Li

Are Political Connections Corruption? Evidence from China’s Land Market

Kung, James K.S.; Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting

Trading Favors: Untangling the Web of Corruption between Public Officials and Firms in China's land market

Chen, Ting; Xie, Jiaxin; Han, Li; Kung, James K.S.

Article 2

Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v. 116, September 2015, p. 89-104
Han, Li; Kung, James Kai-Sing

How Status Inheritance Rules Affect Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from Urban China

Economic Journal, v. 125, (589), December 2015, p. 1850-1887
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui

Article 2

Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages

Public Choice, v. 158, (1-2), 2014, p. 221-242
Han, Li

Encouraging classroom peer interactions: Evidence from Chinese migrant schools

Journal of Public Economics, v. 111, March 2014, p. 29-45
Li, Tad; Han, Li; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, Scott

Article 1

Is Centralized Teacher Deployment More Equitable? Evidence from Rural China

China Economic Review, v. 24, (1), March 2013, p. 65-76
Han, Li

Article 1

The global auction: the broken promises of education, jobs, and incomes

Educational review, v. 63, 2011, p. 519-520
Han, Li

Conference paper 2

How Intergenerational Status Transmission Affects Marriage Segregation: Evidence from China

NBER-CCER Annual Conference 2011, Beijing, June 29-30, 2011
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui

Urbanizing China: the Changing Fiscal Incentives of Local Governments

Public Finance Issues in China 2011; organized by Roger Gordon and Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 27-28, 2011
Han, Li; Kung, James

Conference paper 3

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

China Economic Society annual conference, Xiamen, China; Xiamen University: June 23-25, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

Northeastern Universities Development Consortium; MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; November 6-7, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu

Peer Tutoring and Pay-for-Grade Incentive Programs: Field Experiment Evidences from Chinese Primary Schools

China Economics Society 2010 Annual Meeting, organized by Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; June 19 - 21, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu

Article 1

The Gender Difference of Peer Influence in Higher Education

Economics of Education Review, v. 28, (1), 2009, p. 129-134
Han, Li; Li, Tao

Conference paper 1

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentive: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

The Northeastern Universities Development Economics Consortium, 2009. Organizer: Tufts University, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. November 7 - 8, 2009
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui

2019 3

How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v.139, June 2019, p. 109-121
Han, Li; Shi, Xinzheng
Article

Estimating the intergenerational transmission of political status: a method based on the fashion cycle of given names

Han, Li; Li, Tao
Conference paper

Whitening the Corruption Gains through the Revolving Door

Han, Li
Conference paper

2017 1

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

Economic Development and Cultural Change, v. 65, (2), January 2017, p. 297-337
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui
Article

2016 3

Are Political Connections Corruption: Evidence from China's Land Market

Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting; Kung, James Kai Sing; Han, Li
Conference paper

Are Political Connections Corruption? Evidence from China’s Land Market

Kung, James K.S.; Han, Li; Xie, Jiaxin; Chen, Ting
Conference paper

Trading Favors: Untangling the Web of Corruption between Public Officials and Firms in China's land market

Chen, Ting; Xie, Jiaxin; Han, Li; Kung, James K.S.
Conference paper

2015 2

Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China

Journal of Development Economics, v. 116, September 2015, p. 89-104
Han, Li; Kung, James Kai-Sing
Article

How Status Inheritance Rules Affect Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from Urban China

Economic Journal, v. 125, (589), December 2015, p. 1850-1887
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui
Article

2014 2

Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages

Public Choice, v. 158, (1-2), 2014, p. 221-242
Han, Li
Article

Encouraging classroom peer interactions: Evidence from Chinese migrant schools

Journal of Public Economics, v. 111, March 2014, p. 29-45
Li, Tad; Han, Li; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, Scott
Article

2013 1

Is Centralized Teacher Deployment More Equitable? Evidence from Rural China

China Economic Review, v. 24, (1), March 2013, p. 65-76
Han, Li
Article

2011 3

The global auction: the broken promises of education, jobs, and incomes

Educational review, v. 63, 2011, p. 519-520
Han, Li
Article

How Intergenerational Status Transmission Affects Marriage Segregation: Evidence from China

NBER-CCER Annual Conference 2011, Beijing, June 29-30, 2011
Han, Li; Li, Tao; Zhao, Yaohui
Conference paper

Urbanizing China: the Changing Fiscal Incentives of Local Governments

Public Finance Issues in China 2011; organized by Roger Gordon and Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 27-28, 2011
Han, Li; Kung, James
Conference paper

2010 3

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

China Economic Society annual conference, Xiamen, China; Xiamen University: June 23-25, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

Cash Incentives, Peer Tutoring, and Parents: A Study of Three Educational Inputs in a Randomized Field Experiment

Northeastern Universities Development Consortium; MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; November 6-7, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

Peer Tutoring and Pay-for-Grade Incentive Programs: Field Experiment Evidences from Chinese Primary Schools

China Economics Society 2010 Annual Meeting, organized by Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; June 19 - 21, 2010
Li, Tao; Han, Li; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu
Conference paper

2009 2

The Gender Difference of Peer Influence in Higher Education

Economics of Education Review, v. 28, (1), 2009, p. 129-134
Han, Li; Li, Tao
Article

Centralized Deployment and Teacher Incentive: Evidence from Reforms in Rural China

The Northeastern Universities Development Economics Consortium, 2009. Organizer: Tufts University, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. November 7 - 8, 2009
Han, Li; Liu, Mingxing; An, Xuehui
Conference paper

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 0 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 3 2023-24 Winter 0

MASS5210	Economic Development
SOSC1440	Introduction to Economics
SOSC4110	Capstone Project

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 21 May 2025)

All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LAM, Hoi San (co-supervision)
Social Science
YIN, Yabin
Social Science

Master of Philosophy

DENG, Xianglong (co-supervision)
Social Science
KE, Jiawen
Social Science

Graduated RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LAM, Pak Hung
Social Science( Completed in 2023 )
PENG, Wenwei
Social Science( Completed in 2023 )

Master of Philosophy

DU, Xinting
Social Science( Completed in 2024 )

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

All Projects 2

No Projects.
From the New World: Sanctions and the Votes of Immigrants

自新大陸：制裁與移民投票 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
HAN Li (Lead)
2024 -
Dams and Conflicts

大壩與沖突 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
HAN Li (Lead)
2022 -

Research Interest

Publications

2024 2

2023 3

2022 1

2021 1

2020 2

2019 3

2017 1

2016 3

2015 2

2014 2

2013 1

2011 3

2010 3

2009 2

Conference paper 2

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

Article 2

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Article 1

Conference paper 3

Article 2

Article 2

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 3

Article 1

Conference paper 1

2019 3

2017 1

2016 3

2015 2

2014 2

2013 1

2011 3

2010 3

2009 2

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 21 May 2025)

Current RPGs

Graduated RPGs

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

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