-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

We employ a model of precautionary saving to study why household saving rates are so high in China and so low in the US … components. This decomposition indicates that over 80 percent of China's saving rate and nearly all of the US saving arises from … the precautionary motive. The difference in the income growth rate between China and the US is vastly more important for …

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

human capital in STEMI areas. We conclude with a comparison of the US research ecosystem to that of China to understand how …