Carol H. Shiue

About

Carol H. Shiue is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a PhD from Yale University and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests encompass the economic history of market development and trade in China, the political economy of famine relief, and long-run comparisons of living standards. She also focuses on kinship organization and social mobility. Her work frequently involves comparative world development, commodity, labor, and capital market integration, human capital accumulation and long-run growth, as well as issues related to inequality, migration, spatial economic activity, and geographic information systems. Shiue has presented her research at top universities and conferences both in the U.S. and internationally, and has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and her articles have been published or are forthcoming in prominent journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Econometrics, and Review of Development Economics.

Research topics

• History
• Ancient history
• Economics
• Political Science
• Law
• Economic history
• Geography
• Archaeology
• International trade
• Development economics

Selected publications

• The Economic Consequences of the Opium War

  2021 · 20 citations

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  This paper employs new data to study the impact of Western colonial institutions on China's economy during the 19th century. It is shown that trade and legal institutions in the treaty port areas accelerated industrialization and increased capital market efficiency. The former was driven by technology transfer and market access gains at the ports, while the latter was due to increased security through extraterritorial legal rule at the consular courts. Furthermore, a geographic spillover analysi…

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• Market integration and institutional change

  Review of World Economics · 2019-09-25 · 15 citations

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• China’s Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-07-01 · 9 citations

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  The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries forced open new ports to foreign trade through international treaties. Chinese institutions of trade were abolished and re-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the im…

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• Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900

  The Journal of Economic History · 2025-04-11 · 5 citations

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  This study examines intergenerational mobility in China over 6 centuries using unique genealogical data on father-son pairs from 7 clans in Tongcheng County. Covering 18 generations and approximately 40,000 individuals, the analysis spans a broad set of social classes, from ordinary people to jinshi degree holders. The findings indicate that although social mobility was slow to change, mobility nonetheless underwent a sizable increase during the seventeenth century. The timing of the trends corr…

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• International Transactions: Real Trade and Factor Flows between 1700 and 1870

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-03-01 · 5 citations

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  This paper describes broad regional and temporal trends in the evolution of international trade and international factor flows between 1700 and 1870, including key differences in trade costs across space and time. We find trade links in Western Europe and the European colonies of North America intensified at the same time these regions experienced the initial industrial revolution and the spread of industrialization, which led to sustained economic growth. At the same time, global differences in…

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Frequent coauthors

• Wolfgang Keller

  Center for Economic and Policy Research

  160 shared

• Ben Li

  China Animal Disease Control Center

  19 shared

• Javier Andres Santiago

  University of Colorado Boulder

  10 shared

• Wolfgang Keller

  7 shared

• Xin Wang

  Peking University

  7 shared

• Bertrand M. Roehner

  Sorbonne Université

  2 shared

• Markus Lampe

  1 shared

• Sen Yan

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Yale University

  1999

• B.S.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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