Debin Ma

1.8k total citations
28 papers, 708 citations indexed

About

Debin Ma is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Demography and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Debin Ma has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 708 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 15 papers in Demography and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Debin Ma's work include Historical Economic and Social Studies (16 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (15 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (8 papers). Debin Ma is often cited by papers focused on Historical Economic and Social Studies (16 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (15 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (8 papers). Debin Ma collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Debin Ma's co-authors include Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Robert C. Allen, Jean‐Pascal Bassino, Christine Moll-Murata, Jared Rubin, Jöerg Baten, Qīng Wáng and Stephen L. Morgan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Comparative Economics.

In The Last Decade

Debin Ma

26 papers receiving 661 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Debin Ma United Kingdom	10	488	295	272	136	74	28	708
Mark Dincecco United States	15	750 1.5×	486 1.6×	355 1.3×	371 2.7×	37 0.5×	49	1.1k
John Coatsworth United States	16	369 0.8×	363 1.2×	249 0.9×	189 1.4×	105 1.4×	50	855
Bishnupriya Gupta United Kingdom	11	384 0.8×	181 0.6×	143 0.5×	56 0.4×	65 0.9×	28	517
Stefano Fenoaltea Italy	15	596 1.2×	120 0.4×	105 0.4×	114 0.8×	52 0.7×	58	788
Carol H. Shiue United States	12	385 0.8×	187 0.6×	110 0.4×	74 0.5×	23 0.3×	25	536
D. C. M. Platt United Kingdom	17	230 0.5×	137 0.5×	215 0.8×	164 1.2×	107 1.4×	55	712
Robin Pearson United Kingdom	13	326 0.7×	55 0.2×	95 0.3×	57 0.4×	48 0.6×	48	494
Ilia Rainer United States	6	189 0.4×	407 1.4×	394 1.4×	243 1.8×	32 0.4×	9	756
Warren C. Whatley United States	12	217 0.4×	89 0.3×	200 0.7×	42 0.3×	57 0.8×	26	457
Noel Maurer United States	11	160 0.3×	98 0.3×	165 0.6×	107 0.8×	17 0.2×	36	491

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Debin & Jared Rubin. (2024). Ideology and economic change the contrasting paths to the modern economy in late 19th century China and Japan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 100122–100122.

Chen, Shuo & Debin Ma. (2020). States and Wars: China's Long March Towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC - 1911 AD. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Ma, Debin, et al.. (2020). A silver transformation: Chinese monetary integration in times of political disintegration, 1898–1933†. The Economic History Review. 73(2). 513–539. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Debin. (2019). Financial Revolution in Republican China During 1900–37: A Survey and a New Interpretation. Australian Economic History Review. 59(3). 242–262. 9 indexed citations

Ma, Debin & Jared Rubin. (2019). The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes). Journal of Comparative Economics. 47(2). 277–294. 42 indexed citations

Zanden, Jan Luiten van & Debin Ma. (2017). What Makes Maddison Right. World Economy. 18(3). 203–214. 2 indexed citations

Macve, Richard, et al.. (2016). The development of Chinese accounting and bookkeeping before 1850: insights from the Tŏng Tài Shēng business account books (1798–1850). Accounting and Business Research. 47(4). 401–430. 10 indexed citations

Hoskin, Keith, Debin Ma, & Richard Macve. (2016). Rational Evolution or Socially Constructed Counter-Myth? Cross-Cultural Perceptions of the Development of Chinese Commercial Accounting Up to C.1850 and Its Significance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Macve, Richard, et al.. (2015). The Development of Chinese Accounting and Bookkeeping Before 1850: Insights from the TTng TTi Shhng Business Account Books (1798-1850). SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin, et al.. (2015). Discovering Economic History in Footnotes. Modern China. 42(5). 483–504. 7 indexed citations

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Brandt, Loren, Debin Ma, & Thomas G. Rawski. (2014). From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom. Journal of Economic Literature. 52(1). 45–123. 151 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2013). State capacity and great divergence, the case of Qing China (1644–1911). Eurasian Geography and Economics. 54(5-6). 484–499. 14 indexed citations

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Harrison, Mark & Debin Ma. (2013). Soaring Dragon, Stumbling Bear China's Rise in a Comparative Context. 2 indexed citations

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Hoskin, Keith, Debin Ma, & Richard Macve. (2013). A Genealogy of Myths About the Rationality of Accounting in the West and in the East. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2012). Political Institution and Long Run Economic Trajectory: Some Lessons from Two Millennia of Chinese Civilization. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Baten, Jöerg, Debin Ma, Stephen L. Morgan, & Qīng Wáng. (2009). Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in the 18–20th centuries: Evidences from real wages, age-heaping, and anthropometrics. Explorations in Economic History. 47(3). 347–359. 73 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2008). Economic growth in the Lower Yangzi region of China in 1911–1937: a quantitative and historical analysis. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2006). Law and Commerce in Traditional China : An Institutional Perspective on the “Great Divergence”. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2005). Between Cottage and Factory: The Evolution of Chinese and Japanese Silk-Reeling Industries in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. 10(2). 195–213. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Debin. (2004). Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China. Australian Economic History Review. 44(3). 259–277. 33 indexed citations

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