Pinghan Liang
Biographic Data
| ID | 1135281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pinghan Liang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pinghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Liang |
| SIGNATURE | LIANG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0458-6139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China
Stay Hungry, and Stay Calm in Upbeat Time: Local Leaders' Early‐Life Famine Experience and Housing Sector Development in China
This paper shows that local officials' personal preferences formed through early‐life experience affects Chinese housing sector development. We exploit a county‐level panel between 2000 and 2007 and use the Great Famine in 1959–1961 in China as a natural experiment. Our specification exploits the spatial variation in the early‐life exposure to the famine, and shows that local officials' early‐life exposure to more severe famine leads to significa…
Marx meets Weber: The dissolution of communes and the rise of religious public goods in China
Local Governments and the Diffusion of Video Surveillance in China: Evidence from the Public Procurement Contracts
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China
Child adoption is prevalent worldwide. Understanding the adoption behaviors of households is critical because adoption can offer children a better environment in which to grow up and significantly affect both families’ and children’s well-being. Can public policies or institutions influence the adoption behaviors of households? We explore the causal effect of the decollectivization reform on child adoption in rural China after 1978. The staggered…
A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”
In recent years, the phenomenon of anti‐public sector bias (APSB) has garnered significant attention among public administration scholars. It is of especial interest given its possible effects on how citizens evaluate public sector performance. Despite the prominence of APSB in academic discourse, conclusive evidence requires further empirical testing. Our study addresses this gap by conducting a replication of Marvel (2016) using a different stu…
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative agents: computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate…
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions
This paper traces the formation of politicians’ policy preferences to their early-life experiences. Based on biographical information on 2,806 county party secretaries in China and fiscal data from the 1,713 counties they governed during the 1998–2007 period, we find that a one-percentage-point increase in the early-life famine severity experienced by a county party secretary increases fiscal expenditures on agriculture by 0.8% and on social secu…
Potential risk to water resources under eco-restoration policy and global change in the Tibetan Plateau
Water shortage is a core problem that has hindered sustainable development worldwide. The Tibetan Plateau feeds ten main rivers on which almost 20% of the world’s population depends. However, the plateau has suffered serious environmental deterioration from global warming. Since the 1980s, the Chinese government has supported ecological restoration in the Tibetan Plateau, mainly by promoting large-scale afforestation and grassland conservation. T…
Homevalue misestimation and household leverage: An empirical study of Chinese urban households
Can higher levels of disclosure bring greater efficiency: Empirical research on the effect of government information disclosure on enterprise investment efficiency
Government Information disclosure (GID) is an important part of Chinese efforts in improving doing-business environment. Based on the sample of China's listed enterprises, this paper studies the effect of government information disclosure on enterprise investment efficiency. We find that GID significantly improves enterprise investment efficiency, and this effect is stronger for non-SOE, and enterprises in regulated industries. Mechanism analysis…
Bringing Machine Learning and Compositional Semantics Together
Computational semantics has long been considered a field divided between logical and statistical approaches, but this divide is rapidly eroding with the development of statistical models that learn compositional semantic theories from corpora and databases. This review presents a simple discriminative learning framework for defining such models and relating them to logical theories. Within this framework, we discuss the task of learning to map ut…
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Suppose we want to build a system that answers a natural language question by representing its semantics as a logical forxm and computing the answer given a structured database of facts. The core part of such a system is the semantic parser that maps questions to logical forms. Semantic parsers are typically trained from examples of questions annotated with their target logical forms, but this type of annotation is expensive. Our goal is to inste…
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions
This paper traces the formation of politicians’ policy preferences to their early-life experiences. Based on biographical information on 2,806 county party secretaries in China and fiscal data from the 1,713 counties they governed during the 1998–2007 period, we find that a one-percentage-point increase in the early-life famine severity experienced by a county party secretary increases fiscal expenditures on agriculture by 0.8% and on social secu…
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Suppose we want to build a system that answers a natural language question by representing its semantics as a logical forxm and computing the answer given a structured database of facts. The core part of such a system is the semantic parser that maps questions to logical forms. Semantic parsers are typically trained from examples of questions annotated with their target logical forms, but this type of annotation is expensive. Our goal is to inste…
A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”
In recent years, the phenomenon of anti‐public sector bias (APSB) has garnered significant attention among public administration scholars. It is of especial interest given its possible effects on how citizens evaluate public sector performance. Despite the prominence of APSB in academic discourse, conclusive evidence requires further empirical testing. Our study addresses this gap by conducting a replication of Marvel (2016) using a different stu…
Local Governments and the Diffusion of Video Surveillance in China: Evidence from the Public Procurement Contracts
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Suppose we want to build a system that answers a natural language question by representing its semantics as a logical forxm and computing the answer given a structured database of facts. The core part of such a system is the semantic parser that maps questions to logical forms. Semantic parsers are typically trained from examples of questions annotated with their target logical forms, but this type of annotation is expensive. Our goal is to inste…
Bringing Machine Learning and Compositional Semantics Together
Computational semantics has long been considered a field divided between logical and statistical approaches, but this divide is rapidly eroding with the development of statistical models that learn compositional semantic theories from corpora and databases. This review presents a simple discriminative learning framework for defining such models and relating them to logical theories. Within this framework, we discuss the task of learning to map ut…
Potential risk to water resources under eco-restoration policy and global change in the Tibetan Plateau
Water shortage is a core problem that has hindered sustainable development worldwide. The Tibetan Plateau feeds ten main rivers on which almost 20% of the world’s population depends. However, the plateau has suffered serious environmental deterioration from global warming. Since the 1980s, the Chinese government has supported ecological restoration in the Tibetan Plateau, mainly by promoting large-scale afforestation and grassland conservation. T…
Homevalue misestimation and household leverage: An empirical study of Chinese urban households
Can higher levels of disclosure bring greater efficiency: Empirical research on the effect of government information disclosure on enterprise investment efficiency
Government Information disclosure (GID) is an important part of Chinese efforts in improving doing-business environment. Based on the sample of China's listed enterprises, this paper studies the effect of government information disclosure on enterprise investment efficiency. We find that GID significantly improves enterprise investment efficiency, and this effect is stronger for non-SOE, and enterprises in regulated industries. Mechanism analysis…
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative agents: computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate…
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions
This paper traces the formation of politicians’ policy preferences to their early-life experiences. Based on biographical information on 2,806 county party secretaries in China and fiscal data from the 1,713 counties they governed during the 1998–2007 period, we find that a one-percentage-point increase in the early-life famine severity experienced by a county party secretary increases fiscal expenditures on agriculture by 0.8% and on social secu…
A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”
In recent years, the phenomenon of anti‐public sector bias (APSB) has garnered significant attention among public administration scholars. It is of especial interest given its possible effects on how citizens evaluate public sector performance. Despite the prominence of APSB in academic discourse, conclusive evidence requires further empirical testing. Our study addresses this gap by conducting a replication of Marvel (2016) using a different stu…
Stay Hungry, and Stay Calm in Upbeat Time: Local Leaders' Early‐Life Famine Experience and Housing Sector Development in China
This paper shows that local officials' personal preferences formed through early‐life experience affects Chinese housing sector development. We exploit a county‐level panel between 2000 and 2007 and use the Great Famine in 1959–1961 in China as a natural experiment. Our specification exploits the spatial variation in the early‐life exposure to the famine, and shows that local officials' early‐life exposure to more severe famine leads to significa…
Marx meets Weber: The dissolution of communes and the rise of religious public goods in China
Local Governments and the Diffusion of Video Surveillance in China: Evidence from the Public Procurement Contracts
Decollectivization and Child Adoption in Rural China
Child adoption is prevalent worldwide. Understanding the adoption behaviors of households is critical because adoption can offer children a better environment in which to grow up and significantly affect both families’ and children’s well-being. Can public policies or institutions influence the adoption behaviors of households? We explore the causal effect of the decollectivization reform on child adoption in rural China after 1978. The staggered…
The art of not being chocked: Environmental awareness, residents' responses and land transactions in China
Political science (7 works) · China (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)