This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

determinants of subjective well-being.  Less attention has been paid to its normative implications.  Taking China as a case study …

, industries and regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time.  However, based … good explanation for China's overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the sector, overinvestment is …

This paper attempts to address a puzzle in China's investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable …

appropriate data set for China.  The tests favour the early theories.  Implications are drawn. …

China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China ….  Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind.  Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …