Shaoda Wang
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the paper's author; researcher who studies academic dishonesty, political selection, and institutional consequences using large-scale Chinese data.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 53min
Do Dishonest People Self-Select Into Public Service?
Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at UChicago Harris who studies academic dishonesty and political selection, discusses using dissertation plagiarism and experiments to link cheating with career paths. Short segments cover measuring plagiarism, links to civil service and judges, bias toward powerful litigants, livestreaming as a check, and how institutions and mentors amplify dishonesty.
Feb 17, 2026 • 21min
Laboratories of Autocracy: What Happens When China Shuts Down Its Policy Experiments
Shaoda Wang, an assistant professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy who studies Chinese policymaking with large-scale text data. He discusses how local governments once drove most policy innovation, the 2013 shift toward top-down control, how that changed local behavior from experimenting to copying, and the trade-offs between centralization and local fit.
