Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

This study provides evidence that the over-export of grains aggravated the severity of China's Great Famine. We collect … of grain, crop productivity, weather conditions, distance to railways, and the number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP … the county-level during the famine period, and conduct counterfactual experiments to quantify the relative importance of …

-reduction-oriented labour-industry promotion vs overall productivity increase; and complementary role of IT services for industrial …

-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in … our regression analysis we exploit the fact that the famine was more severe in urban than in rural areas. Consistent with …