Faculty Profiles - HOU Yue | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yue HOU
侯越

PhD in Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015

Associate Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 3469 2690
yuehou@ust.hk
Room 3348
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Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0002-9514-9152

Scopus ID

56211091500

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Political economy
Chinese domestic politics
Comparative politics
Authoritarian regimes

Publications

All Years 10 2025 0 2024 0 2023 2 2022 1 2021 0 2020 2 2019 5

2023 2

Stimulated political decisions: Local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China

Political Science Research and Methods, v. 11, (1), January 2023, p. 18-33
Hou, Yue; Li, Siyao
Article

Underrepresented Outperformers: Female legislators in the Chinese Congress

The China Quarterly, September 2023, p. 1-16
Feng, Xinrui; Hou, Yue; Liu, Mingxing
Article

2022 1

Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China

Journal of Politics, v. 84, (4), October 2022, p. 2294-2299
Hou, Yue; Truex, Rory
Article

2020 2

Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market

Journal of Comparative Economics, v. 48, (2), June 2020, p. 235-250
Hou, Yue; Liu, Chuyu; Crabtree, Charles
Article

Unpolluted decisions: Air quality and judicial outcomes in China

Economics Letters, v. 194, September 2020, article number 109369
Hou, Yue; Wang, Peichun
Article

2019 2

Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy

Journal of Experimental Political Science, v. 6, (2), June 2019, p. 120-130
Hou, Yue; Quek, Kai
Article

The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China

Hou, Yue
Book

2018 1

Achieving Efficiency Without Losing Accuracy: Strategies for Scale Reduction with an Application to Risk Attitudes and Racial Resentment

Social Science Quarterly, v. 99, (2), June 2018, p. 563-582
Loose, Krista; Hou, Yue; Berinsky, Adam J.
Article

2017 1

Constituency Service under Nondemocratic Rule: Evidence from China

Journal of Politics, v. 79, (3), July 2017, p. 1024-1040
Distelhorst, Greg; Hou, Yue
Article

2014 1

Ingroup Bias in Official Behavior: A National Field Experiment in China

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, v. 9, (2), June 2014, p. 203-230
Greg, Distelhorst; Hou, Yue
Article

Article 2

Stimulated political decisions: Local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China

Political Science Research and Methods, v. 11, (1), January 2023, p. 18-33
Hou, Yue; Li, Siyao

Underrepresented Outperformers: Female legislators in the Chinese Congress

The China Quarterly, September 2023, p. 1-16
Feng, Xinrui; Hou, Yue; Liu, Mingxing

Article 1

Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China

Journal of Politics, v. 84, (4), October 2022, p. 2294-2299
Hou, Yue; Truex, Rory

Article 2

Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market

Journal of Comparative Economics, v. 48, (2), June 2020, p. 235-250
Hou, Yue; Liu, Chuyu; Crabtree, Charles

Unpolluted decisions: Air quality and judicial outcomes in China

Economics Letters, v. 194, September 2020, article number 109369
Hou, Yue; Wang, Peichun

Article 1

Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy

Journal of Experimental Political Science, v. 6, (2), June 2019, p. 120-130
Hou, Yue; Quek, Kai

Book 1

The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China

Hou, Yue

Article 1

Achieving Efficiency Without Losing Accuracy: Strategies for Scale Reduction with an Application to Risk Attitudes and Racial Resentment

Social Science Quarterly, v. 99, (2), June 2018, p. 563-582
Loose, Krista; Hou, Yue; Berinsky, Adam J.

Article 1

Constituency Service under Nondemocratic Rule: Evidence from China

Journal of Politics, v. 79, (3), July 2017, p. 1024-1040
Distelhorst, Greg; Hou, Yue

Article 1

Ingroup Bias in Official Behavior: A National Field Experiment in China

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, v. 9, (2), June 2014, p. 203-230
Greg, Distelhorst; Hou, Yue

2019 2

Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy

Journal of Experimental Political Science, v. 6, (2), June 2019, p. 120-130
Hou, Yue; Quek, Kai
Article

The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China

Hou, Yue
Book

2018 1

Achieving Efficiency Without Losing Accuracy: Strategies for Scale Reduction with an Application to Risk Attitudes and Racial Resentment

Social Science Quarterly, v. 99, (2), June 2018, p. 563-582
Loose, Krista; Hou, Yue; Berinsky, Adam J.
Article

2017 1

Constituency Service under Nondemocratic Rule: Evidence from China

Journal of Politics, v. 79, (3), July 2017, p. 1024-1040
Distelhorst, Greg; Hou, Yue
Article

2014 1

Ingroup Bias in Official Behavior: A National Field Experiment in China

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, v. 9, (2), June 2014, p. 203-230
Greg, Distelhorst; Hou, Yue
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 0 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 1 2023-24 Winter 0

SHSS4991

Capstone Project

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 28 March 2025)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

CAO, Xianqi
Social Science
CHEN, Yi
Social Science
DENG, Xianglong
Social Science

Research Interest

Publications

2023 2

2022 1

2020 2

2019 2

2018 1

2017 1

2014 1

Article 2

Article 1

Article 2

Article 1

Book 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

2019 2

2018 1

2017 1

2014 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 28 March 2025)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

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