China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

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 …

 because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China.  To quantify these costs we develop a general …

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 …