, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure. Epidemic exposure is … associated with an increase in remote-access (online/mobile) banking and substitution from bank branch-based to ATM activity. The … initial fixed costs. Exploring heterogeneity using a machine-learning driven approach, we find that young, high-income earners …

particular) are more educated than non-adopters, and they are also more likely to already hold a bank account. Positive self …

unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … income on independent living as well as considerable heterogeneity. The elderly with easy access to their adult children … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …

China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary … how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013 China Household Income Project data, we estimate the returns to …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … with one third of the variation in gender preferences within firm*occupation cells. -- discrimination ; gender ; China … ; internet ; search …

graduates, and when pitted against less-educated technical school graduates. -- overqualification ; job search ; internet … ; China …

minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that …. -- Chinese firms ; hiring ; discrimination ; ethnicity ; internet job boards ; resume audit study …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …

method to China, which has experienced a 10-fold expansion of its higher education sector over the last two decades. We find … that about half of online job-seekers in China are two or more years overeducated, resulting in 5.1% pay penalty. However …