This paper examines how decentralization of administrative and fiscal authority affects the development of small cities by exploiting a unique reform of county-to-city upgrading (chexiansheshi) in China. Based on a comprehensive county-level dataset and difference-in-difference approach, I...

Despite the rapid development of electric vehicles (EVs), the limited range and accessibility of charging infrastructure are still obstacles to the development of EVs. At present, the Chinese government has made great efforts to set up charging piles and the most popular construction mode of...

Working at home is widely viewed as a useful travel-reduction strategy, and partly for that reason, considerable research related to telecommuting and home-based work has been conducted in the last two decades. The contribution of this study is to examine the effect of residential neighborhood...

Using the 2014 to 2019 Forbes China Celebrity Lists, this study empirically examined the relationship between celebrity shareholders and corporate risk. The findings suggest that celebrity shareholders increased corporate risk. And the main reason is that the capital structure of the enterprise...

Due to investors' unique structure and new transaction share rules, speculation in China's IPO market is common. In this paper, we investigate many anomalies in IPOs that produce huge initial return, long-term return reversal and high turnover rate from the perspective of investors' desire to...

We use a large laboratory experimental data involving 2,118 Chinese subjects from Singapore and 1,260 Chinese subjects from Beijing and 400 Jewish subjects from Israel to investigate gender and country difference in altruistic giving using the Andreoni-Miller dictator game (AMDG). Our results...

Straw returning has been widely used as nitrogen (N) reduction measure in the North China Plain in recent years. But, little is known of the optimal plant density and N application rate of cotton under straw returning by now. In the present study, a short season cotton SCRC66 was used to study...

Cryptococcus gattii causes cryptococcosis and life-threatening cryptococcal meningitis. In China, VGI is the most prevalent C. gattii genotype, but little is known about the clinical characteristics, phylogenetic relationships and global virulence evolution of VGI strains. First, we showed that...

This paper investigates the aggregate and distributional effects of urbanization and migration in China using a spatial equilibrium model and population sample survey data from 2005 and 2015. Our quantitative results show a high (low) elasticity of substitution between rural migrants and...

This paper examines spatial allocation and urban wage premiums of skills in China by leveraging a comprehensive dataset that includes several waves of population censuses and nationally representative surveys. Our finding indicates an increasing concentration of occupations requiring high levels...