Boston University 
Boston, MA 02215, USA

Dan Li is a PhD candidate in Boston University, specializing in the fields of Economic History, Urban Economics & Regional Science, Development,  and applied econometrics. Her current research involves examining railroad profitability and investment, with a particular focus on the effects of civil wars and natural disasters that plagued China during 1906-1923, which was awarded the Dissertation Fellowship 2007 by the Economic History Association and will be presented in American Economic Association Meetings 2008. She also works on empirical analysis of economic growth and inequality in post-1949 China. Miss Li participates in a wide range of academic activities. She presented her research in Northeast Universities Development Consortium 2007, the Far East Meeting of Econometric Society, Chinese Economist Society, and Harvard Economic History Workshop, etc. Moreover, her papers won 2006 Rosenstein-Rodan Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Development Economics by Institute of Economic Development, Boston University and are forthcoming in the Papers in Regional Science and Applied Economics Letters.