We exploit data from the China Household Finance Survey to examine the impact of changes in the minimum wage on employment and investment decisions. We are able to non-parametrically identify the average treatment effect on the treated via exogenous variation in the minimum wage across...

Based on 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we use Ordered Probit, Instrumental Variables, and Conditional Mixed Process to analyze the effect of different ways of love on after-marriage well-being. The findings are: (i) Compared with arranged marriage, free love can significantly increase the...

Do cities with higher administrative hierarchies always enjoy higher intercity connections? Based on an innovation of twin cities (Chengdu-Chongqing) in China, this paper uses machine learning methods (linear model, support vector machines, neural network and random forest) to predict the...

We exploit data from the China Household Finance Survey to examine the impact of changes in the minimum wage on employment and investment decisions. We are able to non-parametrically identify the average treatment effect on the treated via exogenous variation in the minimum wage across...

Transport infrastructure connectivity (TIC) has strong endogeneity issues, which makes it difficult to directly assess its impact on local conflict resolution. This study takes a position into the dispute about the two-edged effects of TIC in the process of peace and stabilization, and compares...