significant downward trends indicating a decline over time in the degree of pollution in Chinese cities. It is also interesting …

manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …

textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …

China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling … China largely rely on retired grandparents for childcare. Using novel and high-quality survey data, we demonstrate that …

We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …