| Off-farm labor markets and the emergence of land rental markets in rural China JK Kung Journal of comparative Economics 30 (2), 395-414, 2002 | 509 | 2002 |
| Busting the “Princelings”: The campaign against corruption in China’s primary land market T Chen, JK Kung The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 (1), 185-226, 2019 | 400 | 2019 |
| The tragedy of the nomenklatura: Career incentives and political radicalism during China's Great Leap famine JKS Kung, S Chen American Political Science Review 105 (1), 27-45, 2011 | 352 | 2011 |
| Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China L Han, JKS Kung Journal of Development Economics 116, 89-104, 2015 | 309 | 2015 |
| Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Civil Examination System T Chen, JK Kung, C Ma The economic journal 130 (631), 2030-2064, 2020 | 305 | 2020 |
| Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China T Chen, JKS Kung Journal of Development Economics 123, 86-106, 2016 | 298 | 2016 |
| Climate shocks and Sino-nomadic conflict Y Bai, JK Kung Review of Economics and Statistics 93 (3), 970-981, 2011 | 263 | 2011 |
| Farmers’ preferences regarding ownership and land tenure in post-Mao China: unexpected evidence from eight counties JK Kung, S Liu Chinese Economic History Since 1949, 469-502, 2017 | 224 | 2017 |
| The causes of China’s great leap famine, 1959–1961 JK Kung, JY Lin Economic Development and Cultural Change 52 (1), 51-73, 2003 | 224 | 2003 |
| Common property rights and land reallocations in rural China: Evidence from a village survey JK Kung World Development 28 (4), 701-719, 2000 | 223 | 2000 |
| Can cultural norms reduce conflicts? Confucianism and peasant rebellions in Qing China JK Kung, C Ma Journal of Development Economics 111, 132-149, 2014 | 214 | 2014 |
| Equal entitlement versus tenure security under a regime of collective property rights: peasants′ preference for institutions in post-reform Chinese agriculture KK James Journal of Comparative Economics 21 (1), 82-111, 1995 | 213 | 1995 |
| Diffusing knowledge while spreading God's message: Protestantism and economic prosperity in China, 1840–1920 Y Bai, JK Kung Journal of the European Economic Association 13 (4), 669-698, 2015 | 190 | 2015 |
| The decline of township-and-village enterprises in China’s economic transition JK Kung, Y Lin World Development 35 (4), 569-584, 2007 | 161 | 2007 |
| Of maize and men: the effect of a new world crop on population and economic growth in China S Chen, JK Kung Journal of Economic Growth 21, 71-99, 2016 | 134 | 2016 |
| Egalitarianism, subsistence provision, and work incentives in China's agricultural collectives JK Kung World Development 22 (2), 175-187, 1994 | 127 | 1994 |
| So what if there is income inequality? The distributive consequence of nonfarm employment in rural China JKS Kung, Y Lee Economic Development and Cultural Change 50 (1), 19-46, 2001 | 118 | 2001 |
| Rural cadres and governance in China: incentive, institution and accountability J Kung, Y Cai, X Sun The China Journal, 61-77, 2009 | 108 | 2009 |
| The evolution of property rights in village enterprises: The case of Wuxi County JKS Kung Property rights and economic reform in China, 95-120, 1999 | 105 | 1999 |
| Friends with benefits: How political connections help to sustain private enterprise growth in China JK Kung, C Ma Economica 85 (337), 41-74, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
