Congrats, Shengqiao🎉

Excited to share our new AJPS paper! We analyze 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts and show how propaganda is now produced and spread through a decentralized model on social media. Four years of work with an incredible team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

When fitting synthetic controls, simultaneously balancing multiple outcomes can improve performance. Just Accepted new paper by Liyang Sun, Eli Ben-Michael (Eli Ben-Michael), and Avi Feller (Avi Feller) zurl.co/fPGWR

Examining whether Confucianism is to blame for why China missed the Industrial Revolution and did not democratize, from Ruixue Jia and James Kai-sing Kung nber.org/papers/w33883

Tonight I ran into a young academic who is having some trouble getting published. I reminded them that success in publishing is not the absence of obstacles, but the courage to push through them. Each rejection refines your work, and every submission brings you closer to sharing

My new book -- Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America and New Global Disorder -- comes out on October 28, 2025. You can preorder now: harpercollins.com/products/autoc…

Thanks to Rivka Lipkovitz, a new version of *fect* is on GitHub. It has more visual options, including - improved gap plots - counterfactual plots - cumulative effects - heterogeneous effects (by time) & more yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/

If you've been wondering how to explore the informational content of your Parallel Trends assumptions to get the most precise DiD and ES estimator possible, we have some good news for you!! Our new DiD paper is out: arxiv.org/abs/2506.17729 😎Get along for a brief overview😎 1/

Just published on APSR First View: Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from a Large Reanalysis Study by ALBERT CHIU, XINGCHEN LAN, ZIYI LIU, and YIQING XU cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congrats to FSU!