What happened when China randomly assigned people to farm rice or wheat
The rice theory argues that the irrigation and high labor demands of rice farming gave southern China a more interdependent culture than the wheat-farming north. But how can we test whether rice really shapes culture? Two state farms started in the 1950s give us a rare natural experiment.
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Most of the credit should go to my co-authors, Yimeng, Fengyan, and Yiqun. 👏 They did the real work. The paper is available as a free download on SSRN:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5095839
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Thanks to my hard-working co-authors, many working on NLP at U Penn: Sharath Guntuku, Garrick Sherman, Angel Fan, Salvatore Giorgi, Liuqing Wei, and Lyle H. Ungar. The paper is also available on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5070871
Thanks to my co-authors, many of whom are at U Penn:
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Garrick Sherman, Angel Fan, Salvatore Giorgi, Lyle H. Ungar
And Liuqing Wei at Hubei University.
Thanks to my co-authors Xindong Wei, Kaili Zhang, and Fengyan Wang.