Biography

Erik Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, a graduate student fellow of the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (Q-APS), and a graduate student affiliate with the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China. He studies comparative political economy with particular interests in politics of state-building, bureaucracy, and corruption. He also does research on statistical methods of causal inference. His work has appeared or will soon appear in Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Research and Politics, and Socius.