This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …

plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …

This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address …

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist … school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental …, and incremental nature of China's reforms. Specifically, the resulting non-capitalist institutions are said to be …

computerizing VAT invoices on tax revenues and firm behavior in China, 1998-2007. We find that computerization explains 14.38% of …

from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …