Ruixue Jia is an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. Additionally, Ruixue serves as a Co-Director of the China Data Lab, an Executive Secretary at the Association of Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) and Co-Chair for the China Economic Summer Institute (CESI). During the '20-'21 and '21-'22 academic years she was a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE (on leave from UC San Diego). Dr Jia is interested in the interplay of economics, history