In the past two decades China leaped from bit player in global science and engineering (S&E) to become the world … latecomer to modern science and engineering, China trailed the US and other advanced countries in the quality of its … universities and research but was improving both through the mid-2010s. This paper presents evidence that China's leap benefited …

As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are … for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of effective … implementation of the compulsory education law to show that the law raised overall educational attainment in China by about 0.8 years …

and Learn home visiting program in China, China REACH. It collects more detailed information than is available on the …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …

given level of exposure to imports from China, we find no evidence that minority workers are relatively more harmed than …. Overall, the China shock increased the Hispanic-white employment gap by about 5%, though these effects were short lived. In … China shock. The lasting effects of import competition in exposed areas were driven by white workers, while the experience …