This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite … categories. We find that education and military experience positively affect the probability of being a political elite. The …

traditional Chinese elite culture. We place contemporary seasonal lifestyle tourism in China in its broader socio …

We estimate the return to attending elite colleges in China using 2010 data on fresh college graduates. We find that … the gross return to attending elite colleges is as high as 26.4 percent, but this figure declines to 10.7 percent once we … accumulated in elite colleges can explain almost all of the wage premium …

China's rapid growth has been driven by policy reforms that significantly reduce market frictions. Policy reforms are …-economic considerations in a macro model of China to endogenously study government policies, market frictions, and economic growth. In the … model, an elite runs the government and maximizes its own incomes, facing a political constraint: getting enough supporters …

I examine the activity of political elites during a period of intensive state-building in pre-imperial China. Using a …

We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …

Do social elites facilitate public good provision? Public primary education in China only started after 1905, and it … expanded rapidly in the following three decades. This paper studies the infancy stage of the public education system in China … and focuses specifically on the role of its most important local elite group — lower degree holders under the civil …

their subordinates when popular pressure back their demand. The findings reveal a crucial elite-mass linkage in China … redistricting, and discusses the presence of such “consent instability” in other issue areas in China. The result from a survey …

evaluation remarks for top provincial politicians in China. Latent class analyses on evaluation keywords reveal two distinct …, democratic style that respects dissents and fosters intra-elite collaboration. We further show that the two leadership styles are …