We employ Chinese population census data to consider married, urban women’s labor force participation decisions in the context of their families. We find that the presence in the household of a parent, parent-in-law, or person aged 75 or older increases prime-age women’s likelihood of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand labor market regulations and their consequences for the allocation of resources. Design/methodology/approach: This paper constructs a theoretical model to study labor market regulations in developing countries and how it affects the allocation...

This paper examines the relationship between urban agglomeration and firm innovation using a recently developed dataset that consistently measures city boundaries across Asia together with geo-referenced firm-level data. It finds that the spatial distribution of innovation by firms is highly...