In this paper, we rely on the plausibly exogeneous relaxations in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policies from 2007 to 2015 to study the impact of FDI liberalization on occupational mobility in China. To quantify the policy changes, we create a 4-digit FDI liberalization index and link it with...

This paper studies the evolution of urban China’s gender earnings gap from 1988 to 2013. We first document that the increased gender inequality started to reverse after 2007, but only in the middle-income distribution and only for workers who worked in the State-Owned Sectors (SOEs). Following...

This paper studies the impact of collectivization on patricide in China during the Cultural Revolution. From 1955 to 1957, nearly 96% of farmers were organized into communes. Consequently, fathers lost control over family wealth. We propose that this shift decreased fathers’ bargaining power...