This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...

This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Informing the analysis is an unusually rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC...

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...

This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Informing the analysis is an unusually rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC...

This paper studies the impact of a national ecological rehabilitation program on sustainable development outcomes in rural China. I use the 2009-2010 consolidation of the Land Sloping Conversion Program (SLCP) as a quasi-natural experiment to study what happens when one of the world’s largest...

This paper examines the effects of a minimum wage on wage inequality and employment outcomes in China's ethnic minority regions and whether those effects vary for Han and ethnic minorities. Minimum wage data is combined with a proprietary datasource obtained from China's Household Ethnic Survey...

This paper examines the impact of Dibao, the largest guaranteed minimum income program in the developing world, on micro-enterprise formation among Han and ethnic minority households in poor rural villages of China. The study relies on novel survey data that provides the first and only...

This paper relies on the first and only representative survey data to estimate household carbon footprints (CF) of China's large yet vastly understudied ethnic minority population, documenting for the first time significant ethnic disparities in CF driven by ethnic minorities' relatively...

This paper considers the role of firm ownership structure, absorptive capac-ity and agglomeration on firm innovation in the Chinese context. A popular co-occurrence measure is used to measure local spillovers expected to take place between similar but different industries co-located together....