The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature …

of data sets and taking advantage of large regional and temporal variations in sex ratios in China, we demonstrate that …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms …

- can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro …

relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …